The U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued new guidance yesterday recommending that everyone — regardless of vaccination status — resume wearing masks in public, indoor spaces in areas with “high” or “substantial” rates of COVID-19 transmission, which includes Humboldt County. While cases of severe illness, hospitalization and death in fully vaccinated individuals remain very rare, […]
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Time to Mask Up, Humboldt
At one minute past midnight today, facial coverings became the law of land in Humboldt County under an order announced Tuesday by county Health Officer Teresa Frankovich. The ideal is simply: By wearing a mask you help protect others from a possible transmission of COVID-19 and when other people wear facial coverings, they help protect […]
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Sheriff Calls on Government, Essential Businesses to ‘Open Up’ as Public Health Announces Mandatory Mask Order
Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal announced today that the sheriff’s main office in Eureka will re-open to public access Friday, so people can come in to obtain copies of police reports, get Live Scan fingerprints and access other services. “Government needs to open up,” Honsal said in a video that was released this afternoon answering reporters’ […]