Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today that California residents age 50 and older will join the ranks of those eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations beginning April 1, with all individuals 16 years and older entering the line on April 15. “With vaccine supply increasing and by expanding eligibility to more Californians, the light at the end of […]
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Humboldt Sees 14 New COVID-19 Cases, More Business to Open Under New State Guidelines
Humboldt County Public Health reported 14 new COVID-19 cases today, making 69 so far this week. Today’s cases were reported after laboratories processed 343 samples with a test-positivity rate of 4 percent, bringing the county’s case count to 3,349. The California Department of Public Health announced today that a benchmark of distributing some 2 million […]
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Public Health Confirms Nine New COVID-19 Cases; County to Receive 5K Vaccine Doses Next Week
Humboldt County Public Health reported nine new COVID-19 cases today, making 69 so far this week. Today’s cases were reported after laboratories processed 255 samples with a test-positivity rate of 3.5 percent, bringing the county’s case count to 3,335. No new hospitalizations were reported. The county also reported today that the first vaccination clinic for […]
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First Johnson & Johnson Vaccines Expected to Arrive in HumCo Next Week
Public Health confirmed 16 new COVID-19 cases today and reported it expects the county to receive more than 5,000 vaccine doses next week from the state, including Humboldt County’s first batch of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine. The positive cases were reported after labs processed 445 samples with a test-positivity rate of 3.6 percent, bringing […]
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Phasing in of New State Vaccine System Set to Begin Today
State health officials announced Friday that all counties will start playing by the same rulebook today, when Blue Shield will take over distribution of vaccines in California. A patchwork of COVID-19 vaccine eligibility policies that differ from county to county has deeply frustrated Californians. So state officials hired Blue Shield, one of the state’s largest […]
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Humboldt Confirms 20 New COVID-19 Cases, Youth Sports Cleared to Resume
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 20 new COVID-19 cases, making 114 for the week. The week’s tally is an uptick from last week’s 85 cases but still a far cry from the record 269 confirmed in the first week of January. Today’s cases were confirmed after labs processed 357 samples with a test-positivity rate of […]
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Humboldt Marks 1 Year Since First COVID Case Reported
One year ago today, the news came: Humboldt had its first confirmed case of COVID-19, which at the time had yet to be detected almost anywhere else in the nation. The individual, who had recently returned from China, recovered after seeking treatment for flu-like symptoms at St. Joseph Hospital. Exactly a month would pass before […]
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County Logs Lowest Weekly COVID-19 Case Total in Three Months
Humboldt County Public Health reported 15 new cases today along with an increase in available local intensive care unit capacity as the number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized locally decreases. With today’s results, which came after 182 samples were tested with a test-positivity rate of 8.2 percent, the county has now confirmed a total of 3,067 […]
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School Reopenings More Likely in Rural Areas, at Private Schools
New state mapping data details California’s school-reopening divide, in which hundreds of school districts — mostly smaller and rural or inland — are offering in-person instruction to elementary students while many of the state’s largest, urban districts remain indefinitely in remote learning. But the divide between public and private schools is much starker: Eleven months […]
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Teacher Vaccinations in California Determined by Luck, Location
How soon teachers can expect to get vaccinated depends largely on where they live and could determine whether the bulk of California’s students return to campuses this spring — or next fall. Teacher vaccinations have emerged as a central point of contention in California’s charged debate over reopening schools as unions representing teachers and school […]
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49 New COVID Cases Confirmed as Humboldt’s ICU Capacity Drops
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 49 new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the county’s total to 2,220. On the vaccine side, the county is moving into the next phase, starting with those age 75 and older. (Read more about the process here.) “We’re vaccinating groups in tandem,” County Health Officer Ian Hoffman said in a release. […]
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California’s New Goal: 1 Million Vaccinations in 10 Days
Getting the coronavirus vaccines into the arms of as many Californians as possible has become a race against time as COVID-19 cases continue to spiral upward and a more infectious variant of the virus takes root. Many questions remain unanswered about how the next — and much larger — wave of Californians will be vaccinated, […]