Tenth County Resident Dies With COVID-19, 26 New Cases
Press release from Humboldt County COVID19 – Joint Information Center:
A tenth county resident has died with COVID-19, and 26 new cases of COVID-19 were reported today. That brings to 1,163 the total number of county residents who have tested positive for the virus.
The individual who died was in their 80s and tested positive at the time of their death.
The outbreak at Granada Rehabilitation and Wellness Center has expanded rapidly since routine testing first discovered a positive case. A total of 54 residents and 16 staff have tested positive for the virus, and that number may continue to grow. Humboldt County Deputy Health Officer Dr. Josh Ennis said the current level of disease transmission is unprecedented in the county. “A skilled nursing facility outbreak is not only a marker for widespread disease, but it also has potential to reflect back out into the community,” he said.
Dr. Ennis added that our community is not insulated from the facility’s outbreak, and that transmission within our county at large can be amplified by it, stressing that cases outside of the facility still make up the majority of the county’s cases. “We are one community. At this point in the pandemic, actions taken by one of us can affect all of us. We should all do our part to keep our loved ones healthy.”
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Today the US had over 3000 covid deaths in a day for the first time ever. Current new case rates suggest that it’s only the beginning.
Is Dr. Ennis going to get a mobile test bus for the county? Every county in the state has the option to get one. They are operational in SoCal right now. Why are they waiting to get one if we have such a need for testing?
So covid was on west coast last December when there was no masking, no distancing, no travel restrictions, and everything was open for months. Did most of us get it, or do any of these recommendations do any good?
“ So covid was on west coast last December”
Drink!
According to your scientists and the cdc. Do you work for the government cause they’re always a day late .
“My” scientists.
Most people would just say “scientists.”
This is the post-truth Trumpian mindset in one phrase.
Sorry if it doesn’t back your opinion, but sometimes I’m wrong too.
Not my president, lol
Covid deaths would not have been counted as covid deaths before covid was discovered. Please explain why we have had six times the number of pneumonia deaths this year than we did last year.
Pneumonia is not a virus nor is it contagious. Pneumonia is an infection that may cause the lungs to fill with fluids and prevent/stop the affected person from breathing.
Respiratory diseases like COVID can cause pneumonia so pneumonia can be a symptom of COVID.
So please explain what you mean with this “data” and a source for it…
Welcome to exponential curves. They start out slow, and then they’re not. Any conspiracy that can be explained by high school math isn’t a very good one.
No conspiracy Bush, just hard to swallow facts, it was here in December of 2019 and no masks or distancing. Either it takes 6 months to spread or masking and distancing do nothing, which is it?
It was here in November at the latest, and it looks like September at the earliest…
So says the Red Cross.
They outta know. But for some reason it didn’t spread for 7 months, I’ve been using my high school math and its tailing me that testing is super sensitive and cases may not be what they seem. Which would make some people not look too smart.
Stop trying to come to some revelation on your own. Your are no medical genius. You don’t know more than the professionals. So just, stop. Please. All you predictions have turned out wrong. This is just a very nasty cold type virus that we need to stop spreading. No more, no less. Be a good member of the community and stop spreading your nonsense . Put on a mask and get back to life.
An exponential curve is, simplified, a curve where the growth is proportional to the current value. That is, each unit of time, the new value is the old value plus some percentage of the old value. When the value is low, the growth is thus also slow. As the value gets bigger, the amount it grows each unit of time gets bigger.
When there’s just a few cases, like there was back then, the growth rate is very small, and it can take a long time before faster growth is noticed.
This, as I said, is high school math.
Of course, to make it more complicated, that growth factor can change. Masking, lockdowns, etc, can reduce growth. If they get the growth small enough that each person infects less than one other person on average, the number of cases will fall instead of rise. The goal was to keep the ratio below 1; but it’s currently well above 1, and cases are growing…
Wow! That’s a pretty good math lesson Bushy. Concise and clear even without visual aids.
Still doesn’t explain lack of cases between sept 2019 and April of 2020. Where were the cases then with no masking ,no distancing, and traveling everywhere for the holidays. Keep circling the real question Bush. No answers as i figured, I’ll take Grammar school, middle school, high school,junior college and even 4 year college explanation . I fully understand numbers compounding,like 401ks , but that wasn’t my question. California had COVID-19 last winter without anyone noticing, how come 6 months of super spreader events and no press?
Covid wasn’t even discovered in China until December. Covid cases in the US would not be counted as covid before anybody knew covid existed. This is basic shit, but I have to reexplain it to you EVERY. SINGLE. THREAD.
Let me make my questions easier to understand,tons of blood samples from the west coast show covid here at the latest dec 2019 ,and possibly sept of 2019. Now with that being a fact, why didn’t covid spread to tens millions by April, 7 months later? There was no masking, no distancing. Everyone travel for the holidays. Does distancing and masking work is my question. Covid was here last winter, deny it all you want,but the science is in and it was here winter of 2019
There WAS a surge right after December. It happened in February and March, remember? Was it not big enough for you? Tests were not readily available at the time, so it was probably worse than the official numbers indicate.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/data-visualization.html
What do you suppose is to blame for the MASSIVE uptick in pneumonia deaths this year as opposed to previous years?
It was surging across the west coast last winter and no one said a word. Fact
https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-united-states-december-2019.html
Here is the latest information regarding the potential timing of its arrival Lone Ranger.
It’s an interesting read.
I’m sure you understand that it may have mutated over time as well – on top of Bushys explanation of exponential growth, you shouldn’t have many more questions.
I don’t understand why the arrival time is such a big deal for you, unless you’re trying to imply it’s not killing people now.
It obviously wasn’t killing many Americans in Dec. if it anyone.
Glad you got up to sped ,like I said 6 months ago,it was at FUHS last winter, I remember you saying I had zero evidence. As time goes on data will come in like I said and the evidence will be there. But you just keep denying it.
Nice explanation.
Most people didn’t get it in December although, some did probably did. Many more were infected and died than numbers indicated in late Feb/early March. Doesn’t really matter if someone got it then or not because you can get it more than once. Antibodies disappear in most people after a few months. It is unknown how much protection is contained by immune system memory in helper t/b cells. People are getting reinfected, so herd immunity logic based on people getting sick is a bankrupt ideology. I’m pretty sure you already know that, but continue to preach it anyway.
So antibodies arising from vaccination disappear in a few months and then we catch covid?
What is the reinfection rate? Yeah pretty low ,like. 000001 low . Kind of like saying ,beware leukemia cases are high this month.
Wrong again. Off by five orders of magnitude.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/more-sars-cov-2-reinfections-reported-but-still-a-rare-event-68089/amp
Whoa , .1 of the infected become reinfected, about the same chances of someone catching the flu twice because they are run down, I see. Really nothing worth noting, just news trying to keep ratings.
No, .26 percent of the infected had been infected before. That’s not the same as a .26 percent of catching it again, that’s only the percentage of people THAT WERE REINFECTED, even with the lockdown measures. The actual rate of possible reinfection is certainly much higher.
Please stop pulling random numbers out of your ass. Its embarrassing.
“Since this virus is new, we don’t know how long natural immunity might last,” a note on the CDC’s website reads. “Some early evidence — based on some people — seems to suggest that natural immunity may not last very long.”
Most likely vaccine immunity will also require additional doses to maintain immunity over time. Data is imperfect due to shortened trials to get an effective vaccine out to the public. It is unknown how long it will last. Patients in trials are being studied for two years. They know right now protection lasts for several months from the vaccines, that’s all they know. It’s the best answer available to bringing infection rates down, not perfect but the only one we have. We had mitigation efforts, but obviously those haven’t gone so well.
Multiple sources say natural immunity lasts at least 8 months, if not years. Vaccine lasts a whopping 3 months, what a breakthrough…
Keep focusing on death grasshoppers.
You are what you think.
Keep sticking your head in the sand, ostrich.
Reality bites.
You have no idea what reality truly is, grasshopper.
Coming from China, Americans have so much to learn about accountability.
Soon enough. Soon enough.
The Chinese government instituted immidiate lockdowns and started building makeshift hospitals immediately.
The Chinese welded doors shut so the sick couldn’t spread covid. Should we follow their example?
So, if there was a chance it was passed on by someone, that person had the option to enact prevention measures (social distancing, masks, or whatever) and didn’t do so purposely because they chose not to believe experts, and the end recipient was too sick, old, or incapacitated that it had a greater affect, would that violate the “Thou Shall Not Kill” mandate? Is recklessness an excuse in front of the Lord? Even if it’s as some say fake that the virus is transmittable or any more dangerous than other illness, how would the Lord feel with the recklessness of someone knowingly putting others in potential danger.
Do u drive?
People have done it every flu season for decades. People rub their snotty nose then grab the door handle at your local post office,mall,bank etc. Then some elder person comes along gets that flu and it leds to pneumonia and farewell, been going on for decades.
Correct ,its not a flu, BUT as I stated in previous years the flu was passed to our elders from whoever and killed them . In that aspect it is the same.
A normal year doesn’t have a quarter million people die of pneumonia every eight months.
Shasta County just had 7 deaths in 8 days from Covid.
https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2020/12/08/shasta-county-covid-19-updates-cases-deaths-hospitalizations-icu-availability-redding-california/6491909002/
The pace won’t be slowing down.
I highly doubt that the regular flu is killing 1 person a day in Shasta Co, too
You are never responsible for the health and vitality of another person. We are all responsible for our own health. If your biblical god exists then these deaths are all part of his divine plan, why else did.he so carefully create this virus?
Infectious diseases have always been a part of the sea of biology that we live within. By many accounts we are more accurately described as animate nations of microbes, carefully designed to make their acquisition of food more efficient. The belief that we can isolate ourselves from this sea.of life (that we are a part of) and the belief that succeeding at that isolation will make us “healthy” is an abhorrent and antibiotic position.
We will never eliminate viruses but we could do so much better at reducing the harm we inflict on ourselves in a misguided attempt to avert inevitable death
“We will never eliminate viruses but we could do so much better at reducing the harm we inflict on ourselves in a misguided attempt to avert inevitable death”
Dying from Covid is not inevitable, ThatguywhohasneverleftArcata.
About the only thing that seems inevitable is that we’ll have to endure these I’m-14-and-this-is-deep kind of reflections on mortality and biology that you and others seem to keep posting (although no one asked for them).
Americans have a very unnecessary fear of mortality.
I feel this is from a lack of a deeper understanding of their place in the natural cycle of life.
American people need to consider their entire life as merely footsteps in the sand.
Temporary.
Maybe it’s time to celebrate life and live for those who cannot.
Exactly, we all care for the ones we love, people, animals, plants with products that promise to extend their lives but in the end we all have an expiration date on planet earth, with or without covid.
Once you accept that there is way less fear and way more reason to enjoy what time you have. ” to everything there is a season.”
The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (Audio)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVOJla2vYx8
or
ECCLESIASTES 3:1 KJV “To every [thing there is] a season …
Take reasonable precautions, then be happy, not fearful.
That passage is about being able to change with the times, not nihilistically bumbling through every situation the exact same way just because you’re used to it, even if it kills a quarter million people.
That passage is about how ever one wants to interpret it, or did you talk one on one with the author?
“It’s always time to gather stones! That’s all God wants us to do! Whoever said anything about casting of stones is misinterpreting the text!”
Your opinion and thats all
Oh, you’re right. Maybe God was being sarcastic.
There is NO NEED for these deaths.
These people who you claim to have been on their way out anyway; they very well could have had YEARS more life if not for COVID. Our mortality rates have been plummeting for years, but NOW??
mERCY
The eugenicists among us scare the crap outta me. Who are *you* to judge who gets to live or die? And with Covid, you just don’t know…
and it’s not just death; it’s long term disability, the expense and emotional toll dealing with our for profit ‘health care’ system…those of you who are denying the severity of this pandemic don’t seem to mind burdening your neighbors…or killing them.
“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.”
My dear furies, do you not understand the concept of holding a flower so tightly , that you crush the very petals that caught your eye to begin with?
We are born, Destined to die.
Be brave, be bold, be strong in the face of mortality.
Choose to live what life you have, for it is the journey inward that we fail to honor, through the darkness moving to the light.
“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.”
Is that why chinese safety standards are so lax? Because they don’t value their own lives?
The Chinese government is not a real representative of Chinese Culture.
The Chinese culture is one of patience and discipline and humility.
Those in Power don’t represent the spirit of our collective culture.
This is why they have so much influence in many aspect of life.
They are using the western aspects of capitalism to further the communist agenda.
May I suggest a look at Renmin University in China.
Thank you AA. Well said.
Argue all you want about my fear of mortality. I still don’t want your booger on me.
“All the most wonderful things one could conceive of. Death is nothing but an ongoing expansion of life, to which there is no limit.”
Of course, I would never ,booger, on a fellow student of life.
That booger takes many forms in the expression of our connectedness to our ,source, .
Are we more like the booger on our mothers earth?
A quiet moment of reflection on this.
I see so many people consuming that which should never be given to our worst enemies.
So blind in their desire to be comfortable at the expense of others.
“All the most wonderful things one could conceive of. Death is nothing but an ongoing expansion of life, to which there is no limit.”
Especially with delimiting the oxygen therapies for the Covid-19 hypoxia. Look up the clinical trials . gov for Hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The data from both Louisiana and Mineola NY were both overwhelmingly positive success with patients. Ditto for it’s use in China and Russia. But we have better, and patented profit making tech like mechanical ventilators at under 30% survival or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at less than 7% survival. And we wonder why our mortality figures with Covid-19 is high?
The draft report from the Mineola study has been out for months and highly recommended expanding clinical trials for Hyperbaric oxygen therapy nationally. So, not giving us the option of this, is it a form of medical malpractice? I think it is, even given that a certain number of patients will need other options due to rare medical issues identified in the 100 plus years of Hyperbaric oxygen research.
Hyperbaric oxygen research definitely shows promise. It’s interesting how both covid and cancer cant survive in an oxygen rich environment. (Correct me if Im wrong but I think it affects cancer that way as well.)
It may hold promise for alot of things they havent discovered yet.
Are we getting any cases of the plain old ordinary flu yet or is that a thing of the past?
I talked to my sister who contracts with three nursing homes and has just told me the third one she works with has covid. She has stopped counting the number of people who have died in the other two. She said it is extremely difficult to get rid of once it starts in a facility. ” Nearly everyone got it” By some miracle she still doesn’t have it. Maybe it’s her diligence of distancing and N95 masking. She is way overworked, sad and stressed. People are quitting and getting sick making the work load even worse. She said it’s hard to get rid of this once it starts. Remember it only took one person who to bring this into a nursing home, a young healthy nurse who caught it and spread it to people who needed our help.
More like nursing homes are laying off works due to no work load.
… Did you even think about that?
Was commenting on work load getting worse . Sorry if my lack of thinking irritates you,but that is my whole purpose of being on here. Puff on .
Lone Ranger,
thanks.
Kim please keep us informed on the situation at Granada as it continues to play out. Thank you for the great reporting.
I hope Granada gets the help and the ppe, whatever they need. Maybe somebody could help them. Maybe more staff?
I suspect many family members would help with the simple tasks that don’t require expert training but rules, laws, mandates and regulations prevent them from even visiting let a lone helping.
You know the “one shoe fits every foot policy”
🕯🌲I’ll second that. 🎅🎅
“Dies with” not “dies from” is important.
Not to mention the serious lack of validity in the PCR test which makes any mention of “cases” moot.
Know who invented the PCR test? Interesting…..his take.
(fear-monger much?)
Kary Mullis
https://fullfact.org/online/pcr-test-mullis/
The number of pneumonia deaths in the US this year is six times higher than last year, and 2020’s not over yet.
It all depends only on us. But if we have not already done everything, then the help of doctors remains, but I really hope that people will stop thinking that everything will be fine with them. You need to protect yourself and your loved ones from this virus. I already have one terrible loss in my family through him, although we adhered to all safety standards. I pray every day that the vaccines would be brought in as soon as possible and this nightmare is over! I hope that people will not fold their hands and only then will we overcome this virus together!
Well this is an interesting article…
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https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html
You may be surprised to learn that of the trio of long-awaited coronavirus vaccines, the most promising, Moderna’s mRNA-1273, which reported a 94.5 percent efficacy rate on November 16, had been designed by January 13. This was just two days after the genetic sequence had been made public in an act of scientific and humanitarian generosity that resulted in China’s Yong-Zhen Zhang’s being temporarily forced out of his lab. In Massachusetts, the Moderna vaccine design took all of one weekend. It was completed before China had even acknowledged that the disease could be transmitted from human to human, more than a week before the first confirmed coronavirus case in the United States. By the time the first American death was announced a month later, the vaccine had already been manufactured and shipped to the National Institutes of Health for the beginning of its Phase I clinical trial. This is — as the country and the world are rightly celebrating — the fastest timeline of development in the history of vaccines. It also means that for the entire span of the pandemic in this country, which has already killed more than 250,000 Americans, we had the tools we needed to prevent it .
To be clear, I don’t want to suggest that Moderna should have been allowed to roll out its vaccine in February or even in May, when interim results from its Phase I trial demonstrated its basic safety. “That would be like saying we put a man on the moon and then asking the very same day, ‘What about going to Mars?’ ” says Nicholas Christakis, who directs Yale’s Human Nature Lab and whose new book, Apollo’s Arrow, sketches the way COVID-19 may shape our near-term future. Moderna’s speed was “astonishing,” Christakis says, though the design of other vaccines was nearly as fast: BioNTech with Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca.
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more
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/12/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-design.html
Two recent reports from serious sources provide some insight on both the rtPCR test and the mask mandate. These are not opinion pieces, and call into question much of what has been going on in the last ten months of social and economic destruction.
https://cormandrostenreview.com/report/
https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/everyone-is-already-wearing-a-mask
The masking artical admits only 90% of people are masking. That’s as effictive as wearing a condom 90% of the time. Certainly better than nothing, much like a test that * only* works 90% of the time.
Where can we see daily information on how many ICU beds we have in Humboldt and how many COVID positive patients are in Humboldt hospitals and how many in ICU?
Funny people were eating pangolins from a wet market that coincidentally mutated an identical covid virus to the one bioengineering developed in a military lab 150 yards away. What are the odds?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/coronavirus-not-human-made-in-lab.html
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/05/scientists-exactly-zero-evidence-covid-19-came-lab
The way I see it, right now we should be counting our blessings. Even though we expected the winter covid surge, so far it has stayed the more mild type Hunan strain than the mutated Euro strain. That was peeps real fear. Where as the Euro strain ran a CFR (death rate) from 10% to 15%, right now by far most countries have a CFR from 2% to 0.5%, worse than the flu but not a Spanish Flu by a long ways. If this holds we will still see a lot of deaths, and a new seasonal virus born for years to come (most likely), but we won’t see the destruction that we’d be seeing with the Euro strain or a Spanish Flu type pandemic.
Unfortunately, there are still a small number of countries that have high CFRs and the highest is our neighbor Mexico at 9.7%, though that is probably from mitigating circumstances and not the strain. I hope anyway.
If we can make it through the winter with no mutating surprises this thing should be ready to be put to bed by March (as predicted earlier with fingers crossed).
The things to watch out for are things like the mink farm infestations. The farm is believed to be in the far northern part of the state and the state now claims the infestation has been contained and I believe that means no new infestations though they didn’t go that far. Plus we are much better equipped and prepared to handle a mutant strain outbreak if one does occur. With advances in scientific knowledge about covid and through lockdowns and quarantines an outbreak can be kept local.
All in all, things are not as bad as they seem or could have been. Just got to do all the protection things as we go through this winter and hold on tight. And don’t get sick.
This mink farm?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/10/decomposing-mink-in-denmark-may-have-contaminated-groundwater
Duh…..
More on the false-positive PCR test:
https://twitter.com/TiceRichard/status/1336609484488237058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1336609484488237058%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sott.net%2Fembed%2F5-L1TjyhMHKiiStVxom8QGfx5HV
“Cambs Uni” is Cambridge. Yes THAT Cambridge.
https://lockdownsceptics.org/the-pcr-false-positive-pseudo-epidemic/
“Cases” is fear porn. “Lockdown” is the result of those who live in fear.
History repeating itself…..
The vaccines are mRNA. Know what that means? And some think it will save us……
Anyone who suffers from pneumonia is immediately enrolled as a Covid patient. This is very strange for me. Constant jumps in the number of sick people are also surprising.
Do you have any proof of that? One has to have a positive COVID test to be “enrolled” as a COVID patient.
Again a flash, again half of the beds are occupied, all this is very sad.