When the state of California rolls back its COVID-19 mask mandate next week, Humboldt County will follow suit, Health Officer Ian Hoffman told the Board of Supervisors this morning. Hoffman said the county plans to rely on testing, ventilation and vaccination efforts moving forward, adding that with the Omicron surge easing, county public health will […]
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The Stress Test
Back in August, when Humboldt County schools returned from summer break for in-person instruction amid a surge in COVID-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant, concerns were pervasive. Parents worried whether their children would be safe in the classroom, while others questioned whether schools would act as virus incubators that hastened community spread. School administrators, […]
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NCJ Preview: Spectator Ban, Outgoing Health Officer, Cookie Perfectionism and More
There’ll be no spectators at Humboldt County school sporting events, at least for the next couple of weeks. We’ll go into how the Humboldt Del Norte League came to that decision in the face of quickly rising COVID-19 case numbers and the ensuing backlash. We’ll also get into where our county is in terms of […]
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Signs of Omicron: HumCo Officials Talk Surging Cases and Staffing Shortages
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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Public Health Confirms 48 New COVID-19 Cases, One New Hospitalization
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 48 new COVID-19 cases today — making 223 this week — and reported one new hospitalization. Today’s cases — which make 469 so far this month — come after laboratories processed 161 samples with a test-positivity rate of 29.8 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July […]
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Public Health Confirms 27 New COVID-19 Cases, One New Hospitalization
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 27 new COVID-19 cases today — making 175 so far this week — and reported one new hospitalization. Today’s cases — which make 421 so far this month — come after laboratories processed 310 samples with a test-positivity rate of 8.7 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent […]
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Public Health Confirms 28 New COVID-19 Cases
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 28 new COVID-19 cases today — making 148 so far this week. No new hospitalizations were reported today and two previously reported hospitalizations were removed from the county’s cumulative count after they were determined not to have been COVID-19 related. The report came after state health officials reimposed an indoor mask […]
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Public Health Confirms 32 New COVID-19 Cases, Two New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 32 new COVID-19 cases today with two new hospitalizations — including one of a person in their 20s — making 120 cases and five hospitalizations so far this week. The report came after state health officials announced yesterday that the state will be re-imposing an indoor mask mandate statewide beginning […]
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Public Health Confirms 88 New COVID-19 Cases, Three New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health reported this afternoon that it had confirmed 88 new COVID-19 cases with three new hospitalizations since Friday. The report came after state health officials announced earlier in the day that the state will be re-imposing an indoor mask mandate statewide beginning Wednesday morning, citing a 47-percent increase in new cases since […]
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Public Health Confirms 14 New COVID-19 Cases, One New Hospitalization
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 14 new COVID-19 cases today and one new hospitalization. Today’s cases — which make 246 so far this month — come after laboratories processed 219 samples with a test-positivity rate of 6.4 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 percent in July — the highest for any month since […]
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Public Health Confirms 18 New COVID-19 Cases, Two New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 18 new COVID-19 cases and two new hospitalizations today. Public Health also announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given emergency use authorization to expand eligibility for a single Pfizer booster dose to 16 and 17 year olds if it has been six months or more since […]
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HumCo Records Another COVID-19 Death, 35 New Cases
Humboldt County has lost its 120th resident to COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while confirming 35 new cases of the virus and one new hospitalization. The resident who died was in their 70s, according to Public Health. The county also reported today that 1,162 additional Humboldt County residents have become fully vaccinated since its last […]