Nine New Cases Reported; 54% of Residents 16+ Have Received at Least One Vaccine Dose
Press release from the Humboldt County Joint Information Center:
Nine new cases of COVID-19 were reported today, and one previously reported case has been determined through a confirmatory PCR test to be negative and has been removed from the count. The total number of county residents who have tested positive now stands at 3,903.
Humboldt County Public Health and other approved local vaccinators have administered 98,226 doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Vaccine data on the Humboldt County Data Dashboard has been updated. Some highlights include:
- 60,462 Humboldt County residents have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, meaning they have some protection against the virus. That represents 45% of the total population and 54% of the county’s population age 16 and older who currently qualify for vaccination.
- About 37% of residents 16 and over are fully vaccinated, and 31% of the county’s total population is fully vaccinated.
- 70% of county residents age 65 and older are fully vaccinated.
- Nearly 1 in 5 residents in the 20 to 29 age group — which represents the largest number of local cases — is fully vaccinated.
Public Health will hold a Johnson & Johnson vaccination clinic for county residents age 18 and older at the Rio Dell Volunteer Fire Department (50 Center St.) tomorrow, Thursday, from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Sign up in advance at MyTurn.ca.gov.
Many local pharmacies are also offering vaccination. To streamline the scheduling process and eliminate the need to check multiple websites, the federal government developed a single website to check vaccine availability at all participating pharmacies. Please note that the website’s search function defaults to a 25-mile radius. To view more local options, expand the search to 50 miles when prompted to enter a ZIP code. Go to vaccines.gov to sign up.
Beginning today, vaccines.gov will replace the list of participating pharmacies in daily news releases.
The Humboldt County Emergency Operations Center will dismantle the Alternate Care Site (ACS) at Redwood Acres. The site was established early in the pandemic to handle a surge in hospitalizations and, if needed, could have treated up to 90 COVID-19-positive patients.
Emergency Services Manager Ryan Derby said the ACS was created out of an abundance of caution in an effort to preserve the local health care system. “We’re grateful it was there during some of the most uncertain times of the pandemic, but we now have a better grip on hospital capacity as it relates to this virus,” Derby said. “Due to the work of local health care providers to increase internal capacity, along with advanced planning, we feel it is safe and responsible to fully demobilize the ACS.”
View the Humboldt County Data Dashboard online at humboldtgov.org/dashboard, or go to humboldtgov.org/DashboardArchives to download today’s data.For the most recent COVID-19 information, visit cdc.gov or cdph.ca.gov. Local information is available at humboldtgov.org or by contacting [email protected] or calling 707-441-5000.
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This is good news, right? Are you guys feeling more comfortable now that more people have their shots? What’s the next steps to getting back to “normal?” Can we focus on agreed upon metrics for reopening everything? What say you fellow community members?
Wait, why are we vaccinating children with an experimental vaccine that only has emergency approval from fda? Kids aren’t dying of covid, this is totally wrong, and may prove to be child abuse.
Post birth abortions are the new religion.
Semantics, but its “emergency authorized” not approved at all.
Good point fishkiller
For purely selfish reasons, the younger group has the majority of cases and 95 percent of all deaths are over 50 years old. Not a threat to the young , was on west coast in November of 2019 and super contagious, sounds like most of the west coast was infected by march of 2020, now you need a vaccine cause the same government and scientists were a day late and a dollar short to start with, vaccine is alittle late,we aready had one of the milllion flu variants . Lets push that vaccine to try and recover some finances
https://coronavirus.nautil.us/flu-vs-covid-death-rate/
some “flu.”
How did you come up with that whopper about most of the west coast being infected by March of 2020?
Pulled from an orifice.
Kids are not dying of it (that much) but they can still get it and spread it.
“If you’re sick, stay home”.
Ever hear that one? Or maybe you need some “health official” to determine that for you?
Asymptomatic spread is questionable at best.
Red cross blood donors were found to have traces covid 19 from donated blood from all over the west coast in November of 2019, yes 2019 , shocker, get up to speed thirdeye, 5 months before any precautions were started for this super contagious virus. Yeah how many millions recovered by April 2020 when masking and distancing was requested, DAY LATE.
We’re not. No one under 16 is being vaccinated under the EUA. All indications are that COVID vaccines will have FDA approval soon, based on the large data set being gathered on a daily basis, with positive results.
Thirdeye,
Thank you for recognizing that if you have taken the jab, you’re a part of the safety trial.
Come on in, the water’s fine. Once FDA approval happens, what’s the excuse going to be?
no thanks
go ahead and take your kill shot…….I don’t need an excuse not to take mine. I trust my immune system over some pharma bullshit that will cause more problems than it solves.
Why am I not dead yet? I don’t wear a muzzle, don’t socially distance, I don’t bathe in hand sanitizer, I don’t wash my hands obsessively
………….I don’t watch TV…..that’s why!
………..I have a functioning bullshit detector……that’s why!
………..I’m not a frightened little mouse……..that’s why!
Right-on fishkiller.
This has become a social disease now because of political gains at any cost even if it means victimization of your own party followers.
Your political affiliation is could now be a risk factor to your own and families health.
Hitchcock couldn’t even make up this tale.
It was a relief to see that vaccines.gov works in a simple and straightforward fashion. Plenty of all flavors available through pharmacies.
Always more “cases” in Humboldt.
Are these for real? If everyone quit getting “tested” you’d be in the yellow. Maybe pink?
The tests are bs:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15sCz8WpCNkEZGtrXV-nr4fwjwA34zc9g/view
https://westphaliantimes.com/international-experts-suggest-that-up-to-90-of-canadian-covid-cases-could-be-false-positives/
Time to ignore them. Maybe your overzealous “officials” as well.
I’m not getting some random crap off google drive, but the second link is more reporting based on the exact same study that I’ve explained to you about a dozen times. I’ll paste a quote from the article instead of explain it once again:
“An individual who is tested positive with a cycle count of 20, for example, would definitely need to isolate and self-quarantine because their viral load is likely to be high, making it easier for them to unintentionally spread the virus. However, an Individual who tests positive with a cycle count of 35-40 is very likely not contagious and would not require self-isolation because their viral load would be extremely low.”
Not contagious != not positive. They’re all true positives – just they’re unlikely to be infectious. And, as the FDA pointed out, high cycle counts also can mean someone is in the incubation period, and will soon be infectious – releasing someone from self-isolation would still need a follow up test to confirm they’re not getting sicker.