Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 24 new COVID-19 cases today — making 116 so far this week — along with one new hospitalization. Today’s cases — which come on the heels of 204 confirmed last week — come after laboratories processed 133 samples with a test-positivity rate of 18 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate […]
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UPDATE: South Fork High, Miranda Junior High Closed Due to COVID-19
UPDATE: Southern Humboldt Unified School district officials have also closed Miranda Junior High starting today until after the Thanksgiving break due to an ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. PREVIOUS: South Fork High School is closed for the remainder of the week due to a COVID-19 outbreak, with classes resuming after the Thanksgiving holiday break, according to a […]
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Public Health Confirms 32 New COVID-19 Cases
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 32 new COVID-19 cases today, along with one new hospitalization. Today’s cases — which make 92 so far this week and come on the heels of 204 confirmed last week — come after laboratories processed 102 samples with a test-positivity rate of 31.4 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of […]
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Public Health Confirms 60 New COVID-19 Cases, One New Hospitalization
Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 60 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, with one new hospitalization. Today’s cases — which come on the heels of 204 confirmed last week — come after laboratories processed 464 samples with a test-positivity rate of 12.9 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent […]
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45 New COVID Cases; Public Health to Offer Child Vaccination Clinics with Appointments Required
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 45 new cases today. Today’s cases — which make 204 so far this week on the heels of 118 confirmed last week — come after laboratories processed 312 samples. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — the highest for any month since the pandemic began — […]
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COVID Misinformation Plagues California’s Indigenous Speakers
Ismael Patia and his family arrived at a COVID-19 vaccine clinic in downtown Fresno on a recent Saturday afternoon. His decision to get vaccinated had been a difficult one. But he finally was persuaded by an interpreter who talked to him in his native language, Mixteco, and eased his fears. “I’ve been hearing about people […]
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Public Health Confirms 10 New COVID-19 Cases, One New Hospitalization
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 10 new cases today, along with one new hospitalization. Today’s cases — which make 156 so far this week on the heels of 118 confirmed last week — come after laboratories processed 312 samples with a test-positivity rate of 3.2 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — […]
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Public Health Confirms 75 New COVID-19 Cases, 1 New Hospitalization
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 75 new cases today, along with one new hospitalization. Today’s cases — which make 146 so far this week on the heels of 118 confirmed last week — come after laboratories processed 120 samples with a test-positivity rate of 62.5 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — […]
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Public Health: Another COVID-19 Death, 71 New Cases
Public Health reported today that another local resident has died of COVID-19, while also confirming 71 new cases of the virus and three new hospitalizations since Friday. Today’s report comes after Public Health confirmed 118 new cases of the virus, with four deaths and 10 hospitalizations last week. New countywide masking and quarantine orders, meanwhile, […]
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Public Health Announces 25 New COVID-19 Cases, New Quarantine Order
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 25 new COVID-19 cases today but reported no new hospitalizations. Today’s cases make 118 recorded over the past week, with four deaths and 10 hospitalizations. Public Health also announced that Health Officer Ian Hoffman has issued a new quarantine order that will go into effect Monday. The new order requires […]
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Public Health Confirms 13 New COVID-19 Cases, Two Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 13 new cases of COVID-19 today and reported two new hospitalizations. The county also announced that a new masking order — which lifts the mask mandate outdoors as of Nov. 8, but “strongly recommends” the practice in crowded areas — will take effect Monday. The order also outlines benchmarks the […]
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Every (Oxygenized) Breath You Take
If you’ve seen those heart-wrenching photos from India of long lines of people waiting to get oxygen cylinders refilled, you’ll appreciate the benefit of personal, portable, oxygen concentrators. Especially during the COVID crisis, oxygen is at a premium. SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, reduces the ability of cells lining the lungs from functioning as […]