County Health Officer Teresa Frankovich has updated guidelines for Humboldt residents who leave town, which emphasize limiting non-essential travel to slow the spread of COVID-19 to the region.
“Movement of individuals between households and geographic areas is still a significant driver of disease transmission,” Frankovich wrote in the updated guidelines. “This is particularly true for Humboldt County residents because many areas of the state and country are experiencing more COVID-19 activity than Humboldt. Travel is likely to increase one’s risk of exposure, compared to remaining close to home.”
The guidance includes levels of risk associated with the different destinations and what one decides to do once there.
“If you stay with friends and family, it is very difficult to avoid close household interaction, so this increases travel risk. If you attend family or other social gatherings or events, your risk increases. Cruises, concerts and large venue events where individuals from many different places are in close proximity and sharing facilities, substantially increases risk.”
Read the county release below.
Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich on Friday released updated Returning Traveler Guidance, which reiterates the recommendation to limit non-essential travel in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19.
The guidance also focuses on the level of risk associated with an individual’s destination and activities while traveling. Most notably, the guidance points to the fact that most other counties in the state are experiencing higher rates of COVID-19, and that such information is available through the Blueprint for a Safer Economy webpage for assessing travel-related risks.
“Movement of individuals between households and geographic areas is still a significant driver of disease transmission,” Dr. Frankovich wrote. “This is particularly true for Humboldt County residents because many areas of the state and country are experiencing more COVID-19 activity than Humboldt. Travel is likely to increase one’s risk of exposure, compared to remaining close to home.“What has become clear over time is that the level of risk associated with travel is dependent both on where you travel and, even more importantly, your activities while traveling.”
Dr. Frankovich added, “If you stay with friends and family, it is very difficult to avoid close household interaction, so this increases travel risk. If you attend family or other social gatherings or events, your risk increases. Cruises, concerts and large venue events where individuals from many different places are in close proximity and sharing facilities, substantially increases risk.”
Click here October 2, 2020 – Updated Travel Guidance: Both Destination and Activities Determine Risk to read the full guidelines.
This article appears in Reaching for Resilience.
Umm I think we all know if you travel and spend time with family & friends you have a higher risk of getting covid-19…I don’t think this Teresa lady been watching the new lately because ain’t nothing New about the guidelines if it’s all over the world duh…so what’s different from Humboldt’s county to the rest of the world??? Beside less people getting sick?? It’s a pandemic of course everyone is goin to get sick especially in bigger counties with alot of people not just mountains around them
Must agree that knowledge pursuit should lead a more understood physical pursuit including everyone’s actual responsibility to the ties of pandemic.
wtf? if one has ppty both in HumCow And in another part of the state of CA, we can’t check our local ppty or go back & forth? seriously??
We are fortunate in Humboldt County to have low covid cases and low death count. Is it unreasonable to try to work together to keep it that way? It will eventually catch up to us, but perhaps slower so that we can take advantage of a vaccine.
Hii Teresa,
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