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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 […]

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. […]

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, […]

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 […]

An 83rd Humboldt County resident has died of COVID-19, Public Health reported this afternoon, while also confirming 37 new cases and two new hospitalizations. After a state data glitch derailed yesterday’s COVID-19 case count, Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 90 new cases of the virus since Monday — making 261 […]

After a state data glitch derailed yesterday’s COVID-19 case count, Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 90 new cases of the virus since Monday — making 261 so far this week — with four new hospitalizations. The new cases were confirmed after laboratories processed 368 samples with a test-positivity rate of […]

A “data transmission failure” between two state computer systems derailed the local COVID-19 case count today, leaving Humboldt County Public Health “unable to confirm additional positive case reports.” Public Health also noted in a press release that, for the first time in a month, it had no new COVID hospitalizations or deaths to report. A […]

Public Health reported this afternoon that another Humboldt County resident has died of COVID-19, while also confirming 171 new cases of the virus and two new hospitalizations since Friday. A state database shows 21 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally — the lowest tally in weeks — with two under intensive care. The slow decline […]

An 81st Humboldt County Resident has died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while confirming 30 new cases of the virus and two new hospitalizations. Today’s cases make 386 this week and the death of a resident in their 60s is the 31st recorded COVID-19 death locally since Aug. 1. Today’s cases — which were […]

Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 115 COVID-19 cases and two hospitalizations. The hospitalizations reported today were of a resident in their 50s and another in their 60s. The county’s COVID death toll stands at 80, with 30 reported since Aug. 1. Today’s cases — which were confirmed after laboratories processed 390 samples with a test-positivity rate of 17.08 percent — […]