Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 29 new COVID-19 cases today, with no new hospitalizations. This week has now seen 127 case recorded, one death and six hospitalizations, after five deaths and 258 cases were confirmed last week, for a record 990 cases reported in January. Today’s results came after 258 tests were processed with a […]
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Public Health Reports 13 New COVID-19 Cases, the Lowest Tally Since December
Humboldt County Public Health reported 13 new COVID-19 cases today, the lowest daily tally in more than a month, as well as a new hospitalization. This week has now seen 100 case recorded, one death and six hospitalizations, after five deaths and 258 cases were confirmed last week, for a record 990 cases reported in […]
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Humboldt Marks 31st COVID Death
Humboldt County Public Health today confirmed the death of an individual in their 60s and 22 new COVID-19 cases, including 12 detected with antigen tests. Antigen tests, which look for the presence of a specific viral antigen, basically a foreign substance that triggers the immune system to produce antibodies, are faster and can produce results […]
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Limited Supplies Slowing Vaccination Efforts, County Reports
Humboldt County Public Health has confirmed 65 new COVID-19 cases since Friday as vaccination efforts slow due to limited supplies. Three more hospitalizations were also reported. As a result of the limited doses, Public Health has “canceled its large-scale vaccination clinics for the week and reassigned available resources to support other providers’ clinics,” according to […]
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Huffman to Host COVID Vaccine Town Hall
North Coast Rep. Jared Huffman is hosting a virtual town hall Wednesday to discuss the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine and what residents in the Second Congressional District can expect in the coming months. Guests include: Assemblymember Jim Wood and Humboldt County Health Officer Ian Hoffman and Heather Nye, Associate Chief of Medicine at the San […]
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Mad River Hospital: Don’t Show up at Vaccination Clinics Uninvited
Mad River Community Hospital is asking people not to come to its scheduled COVID-19 vaccination clinics unless they have received an invitation directly from their primary healthcare provider or been referred to the clinic by Humboldt County Public Health or their employer. While word of the clinics scheduled this week and next has spread rapidly […]
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Public Health Reports Five New COVID-19 Hospitalizations, Pushing County Past Single-Week Record
Humboldt County Public Health reported five new COVID-19 hospitalizations today, making 13 so far this week, already more hospitalizations than have been tallied in any single week locally since the pandemic began. Public Health also reported it had confirmed 20 new COVID-19 cases today after processing 428 samples with a test-positivity rate of 4.7 percent. […]
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Supply and Demand: COVID-19 Vaccination Frustrations Boil with Too Few Doses and Another Curveball from the State
After nearly a year of living with COVID-19, health officials point to the prospect of mass vaccination as the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel, the beacon leading us to normalcy. But hope and hard reality continue to collide in Humboldt County, where there are simply nowhere near enough vaccine doses to meet […]
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Public Health Confirms 31 New COVID-19 Cases, Resume Vaccine Distribution
Public Health confirmed 31 new COVID-19 cases today, making 198 so far this week and bringing the county’s cumulative tally to 2,458, as well as four new hospitalizations The week’s cases continue a surge that saw 232 cases confirmed last week, on the heels of a record 269 the week before. Humboldt County has already […]
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Humboldt to Begin Vaccinating Residents 75 and Older Next Week
Humboldt County expects to move into the next phase of COVID-19 vaccine distribution next week, opening the door to anyone age 75 or older to get immunized. During a press conference this afternoon, Health Officer Ian Hoffman said that while state and federal guidelines have changed to include anyone over the age of 65 into […]
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Op-ed: Resolution Recklessly Injects Politics into Local COVID Response
Make no mistake, the resolution being brought before the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors tomorrow by First District Supervisor Rex Bohn does nothing but further politicize Humboldt County’s COVID-19 response, undermining our local health officer and exerting undue pressure on local school districts in the process. Bohn has asked the board to consider approving the “Healthy […]
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Bracing for Purple
On Nov. 30, Humboldt County Public Health reported that it had confirmed 47 new cases, bringing the county’s cumulative tally nine months into the pandemic to 898 cases and capping the record-setting month with 327 new cases confirmed. Conditions, officials warned, were worsening. In the 36 days between Nov. 30 and Jan. 5, when this […]