Humboldt County Public Health reported this afternoon that it has confirmed 121 new COVID-19 cases since Friday with four new hospitalizations. The new cases — which come on the heels of 243 confirmed last week — come after laboratories processed 545 samples with a test-positivity rate of 22.2 percent. After recording a test-positivity rate of 10.1 […]
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Eureka Council to Consider Vaccine Mandate, Police Oversight
The Eureka City Council will consider tomorrow whether to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for all city employees and mull increasing oversight of its police department. In a staff report, Human Resources Director Will Folger writes that “clinical trials, scientific research and safety monitoring” have shown COVID-19 vaccines to be safe and the most effective method of […]
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Public Health Confirms 40 New COVID-19 Cases, Two New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 40 new COVID-19 cases today — making 243 this week — as well as two new hospitalizations. Public Health also offered new data on so-called breakthrough cases of fully vaccinated individuals, noting that one of the five deaths and two of the 14 hospitalizations recorded over the past week were […]
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A 98th HumCo Resident Dies of COVID-19
A 98th Humboldt County resident has died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while also confirming 54 new cases of the virus and two new hospitalizations. A state database shows 29 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally, with five under intensive care. The local hospital census peaked Sept. 3 with 42 COVID-19 patients, then steadily declined […]
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Public Health Reports Four New COVID Hospitalizations, 40 New Cases
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 40 new COVID-19 cases this afternoon — making 149 so far this week — as well as four new hospitalizations. Public Health also reported today that over the course of the last seven days, the ranks of Humboldt County’s fully vaccinated population have grown by 909 people. A state database shows […]
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HumCo Records Three More COVID-19 Deaths, 46 New Cases
Three more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while confirming 46 new cases of the virus and two new hospitalizations. The residents who died were in their 70s, according to Public Health, and make 22 COVID-19 deaths so far this month — matching August’s record tally — including nine over […]
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Public Health Reports Another COVID-19 Death, Four New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 63 new COVID-19 cases since Friday, with four new hospitalization and another COVID-19 death, the county’s 94th. The resident who died was in their 50s, according to Public Health, with one resident each in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s accounting for the new hospitalizations. […]
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Public Health: Of 12 COVID-19 Hospitalizations This Week, 11 Were Unvaccinated
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 23 new COVID-19 cases and two new hospitalizations today but, for the first time in more than a week, did not report a COVID-19 death locally. A state database shows 24 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally, with two under intensive care. The local hospital census peaked Sept. 3 with 42 […]
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HumCo Records Four More COVID-19 Deaths, 40 New Cases as Hospitalizations Rise
Four more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while also confirming 40 new cases of the virus and four new hospitalizations. This is the fifth consecutive day Public Health has reported a new COVID-19 death, with 10 local deaths reported over the past seven days and 40 since Aug. 1. […]
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HumCo Records 89th COVID-19 Death, 35 New Cases
For the third consecutive day, Public Health is reporting that another Humboldt County resident has died of COVID-19, while also confirming 35 new cases of the virus and two hospitalizations. The death brings the county’s cumulative death toll from the virus to 89, with 36 having come since Aug. 1. A state database shows 20 people […]
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HumCo Records 88th COVID Death, 72 New Cases Reported
Another Humboldt County resident has died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while also confirming 72 new cases of the virus and two new hospitalizations, including one of a resident in their 20s. The death — of a local residents in their 50s — brings the county’s cumulative death toll from the virus to 88, […]
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Public Health Reports Three More COVID-19 Deaths
Three more Humboldt County residents have died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while also confirming 84 new cases of the virus and two new hospitalizations since Friday’s report. The deaths — of local residents in their 40s and 60s, and another over the age of 80 — bring the county’s cumulative death toll from […]