This week, we take a closer look at Humboldt County’s current COVID-19 surge, which is fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant and threatening local hospital capacity with reverberating impacts. We also discuss the festival transforming Eureka’s streets with colorful murals, and what voters need to know to fill out their ballots for the upcoming […]
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Public Health Confirms Six New COVID-19 Deaths as Hospitalizations Hit Record High
Six more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while announcing three hospitalizations. “Each life lost to COVID-19 is a member of our community, someone’s family member, neighbor and friend,” said Public Health Director Sofia Pereira in a press release. “We grieve these losses for those who knew and loved them […]
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Public Health Reports 114 New Cases, ‘Vast Majority’ Hospitalizations Unvaccinated
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 114 new COVID-19 cases today — making 428 so far this week — as well as three new hospitalizations. Today’s cases — confirmed after laboratories processed 400 samples with a test-positivity rate of 28.5 percent — make 1,748 so far this month, to go with 73 hospitalizations and 12 deaths […]
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Nurse Shortages in California Reaching Crisis Point
In the past month, four emergency room nurses — exhausted by the onslaught of patients and emotional turmoil wrought by COVID-19 — have quit at the Eureka hospital where Matt Miele works. Miele, who has been a trauma nurse for four years, is actively looking for a less stressful nursing position and has colleagues who […]
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HumCo Records Three More COVID Deaths, Including First of Fully Vaccinated Person
Three more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, including one in their 20s and the county’s first fatality in a “breakthrough” case in a fully vaccinated individual in their 70s, Public Health reported today. “As with any vaccine, breakthrough cases do occur. Most are mild,” Health Officer Ian Hoffman said in a press release, […]
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Public Health Confirms 114 New COVID Cases, Two New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 114 new cases today — making 216 so far this week — while reporting two new hospitalizations. Today’s cases — which confirmed after laboratories processed 677 samples with a test-positivity rate of 16.8 percent — come after the county confirmed 362 new cases last week amid an ongoing surge fueled […]
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Fire Updates: Weather Aids Suppression Efforts
Heavy smoke largely blanketed the handful of fires burning to Humboldt County’s east yesterday, reducing fire activity and aiding firefighting efforts. Crews reported progress — from increased containment to the implementation of community safety plans — on all four fires, to varying degrees. A total of 3,654 people have been deployed from various agencies to […]
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Free N-95 Masks for Local Businesses and Nonprofits
With the increasing COVID-19 case numbers, spread of the highly contagious Delta variant and new masking regulations, the Arcata Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) has found itself once again donating 200,000 N-95 masks to local businesses and nonprofits throughout the county. “We did this a year ago. This is not where we hoped to be right […]
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HumCo Reports Another COVID Death, 102 New Cases as Pfizer Vaccine Gets Full FDA Approval
A 62nd Humboldt County resident has died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while announcing it had confirmed 102 new cases of the virus and four new hospitalizations since Friday. News of Humboldt County’s 62 COVID death — this one of someone in their 60s — comes just hours after the Food and Drug Administration […]
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Hospitals Stretched as Humboldt’s COVID-19 Surge Continues
Humboldt County continues to see a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations fueled by the more contagious Delta variant, leading to “many critically ill” patients being flown out the area for treatment and the postponement of vital but non-emergency surgeries, according to an update from Health Officer Ian Hoffman. In his written report to the […]
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Two More HumCo Residents Die of COVID, 91 New Cases Reported
Two more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, Public Health announced today, while confirming 91 new cases of the virus and seven new hospitalizations. Both of the residents who died were in their 60s, according to Public Health, which also reported that one of the new hospitalizations is of a resident between the ages […]
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Public Health Confirms 53 New COVID-19 Cases, Five New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 53 new COVID-19 cases today — making 271 so far this week — and five new hospitalizations, including one of a resident in their 30s. Today’s cases — which were confirmed after laboratories processed 508 samples with a test-positivity rate of 10.4 percent — come after the county confirmed 471 […]