As the U.S. and Canada face a reckoning over the abuse of Indigenous children in their forced boarding school systems, researchers in Oregon have been working to document the deaths of children at the Chemawa Indian School. Some of those children were from here in Humboldt County. We’ll talk about the effort to bring their […]
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HumCo Records Another COVID-19 Death, 33 New Cases
Humboldt County Public Health reported another local COVID-19 death today, while confirming 33 new cases of the virus and two new hospitalizations. The case tally — which brings the count’s total for the week to 164 — comes after laboratories processed 493 samples with a test-positivity rate of 6.7 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of […]
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Public Health Reports 10 New COVID-19 Cases, Two New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health reported 10 new COVID-19 cases and two new hospitalizations today. But the low case tally — which brings the count’s total for the week to 131 — comes after laboratories processed just 19 samples with a test-positivity rate of 52.6 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — […]
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Public Health Confirms One COVID-19 Death, One Hospitalization, 23 New Cases
Humboldt County Public Health today confirmed one new COVID-19 death in a resident in their 80s, one hospitalization of a resident in their 60s and 23 new cases. Today’s death brings the county’s cumulative total to 108 after Public Health removed two deaths from the count yesterday as one was determined not to be COVID-related and […]
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Public Health Reports Another COVID-19 Death, Five New Hospitalizations
Another Humboldt County resident has died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while confirming 42 new cases of the virus and five new hospitalizations, including one of a child under the age of 10. The death — the county’s 107th due to the disease since the pandemic’s start, after Public Health today removed two previously […]
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Public Health Confirms 56 New COVID-19 Cases
Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 56 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, with no new related hospitalizations or deaths. The new cases come after laboratories processed 511 samples with a test-positivity rate of 11 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — the highest for any month since […]
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Port Backlogs Sum up California’s COVID Crisis
The extent to which California’s — and the country and world’s — challenges are interconnected was exemplified by President Joe Biden’s Wednesday announcement that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will move toward 24/7 operations to help unsnarl massive supply chain backlogs. Still, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said Sunday during a CNN […]
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NCJ Preview: Vaccines and County Staff, Police Shooting Footage and Restoring the Eureka Theater
This week we’re looking at why the board of supervisors declined to require vaccines for county employees, going for weekly testing for the unvaccinated instead. We’re also going into what’s on newly released footage from last month’s police shooting of a suspect on Mad River Road, as well as how law affects what’s made public […]
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Public Health Confirms 10 New COVID-19 Cases; FDA Recommends Emergency Authorization Use of J&J Booster Dose
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 10 new COVID-19 cases, with no additional deaths or hospitalizations reported. Public Health also reported that an advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend the FDA authorize emergency use for a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for adults 18 and older and authorize Moderna boosters for certain high-risk groups. […]
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Hospitals Brace for Strikes as California Workers Protest Staff Shortages
As weary health care workers across California enter the 19th month of the pandemic, thousands are walking off the job and onto the picket line, demanding more staffing. The strikes and rallies threaten to cripple hospital operations that have been inundated by the COVID-19 Delta surge as well as patients seeking long-delayed care. More than […]
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County Marks 9,000th COVID-19 Case
Public Health confirmed 20 new COVID-19 cases today, pushing Humboldt County past a total of 9,000 cases, while also confirming a new hospitalization. The new cases come after laboratories processed 168 samples with a test-positivity rate of 11.9 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — the highest for any month since […]
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Two More HumCo Residents Die of COVID-19
Two more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while confirming 48 new cases of the virus. The county has now recorded 10 COVID-19 deaths to date in October, after 23 in September and 22 in August. The local death toll now stands at 108. The new cases come after laboratories […]