Today’s closure of McKinleyville Middle School in the wake of significant staffing shortages due to COVID is likely a harbinger of what’s to come in the coming weeks as the Omicron variant makes the rounds in the community. Humboldt County is showing all the classic signs of entering into a surge of COVID cases driven […]
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Another COVID Holiday: Is California in a Better Place this Year? Not in Humboldt.
The holidays are here and people are ready to gather, hug and feast. But is California in a better place this year when it comes to COVID-19? Last year, as Thanksgiving approached, infections were creeping up, culminating in a brutal winter surge, and the governor implemented an emergency curfew to slow the spread of the […]
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Humboldt Marks 1 Year Since First COVID Case Reported
One year ago today, the news came: Humboldt had its first confirmed case of COVID-19, which at the time had yet to be detected almost anywhere else in the nation. The individual, who had recently returned from China, recovered after seeking treatment for flu-like symptoms at St. Joseph Hospital. Exactly a month would pass before […]