Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 2:26 PM click to enlarge Humboldt County Public Health Laboratory staff Paula Moon (left) and Alyssa McCloud catalog incoming tests. Humboldt County Public Health reported nine new COVID-19 cases today making 65 so far this week after laboratories processed 56 samples with a test-positivity rate of 16 percent. For the first time this week, no new deaths or hospitalizations were reported. According to a state database, seven people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally, including two under intensive care. Over the past week, local officials have been warning that residents age 19 and younger are increasingly accounting for case spread locally amid an upwelling in cases of the Delta variant, which now ac
Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 3:04 PM click to enlarge Public health A Humboldt County Public Health Laboratory employee processes a COVID-19 test.
For the second day in a row, Public Health is reporting that another Humboldt County resident has died with COVID-19, while also reporting 12 new cases and another hospitalization.
The county s 53rd COVID-related death and the third this month was a resident in their 60s, according to a press release. Today s cases make 56 so far this week and were reported after laboratories processed 253 samples with a test-positivity rate of 4.7 percent. According to a state database, nine people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally, including t
Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 3:28 PM click to enlarge Submitted Humboldt County Public Health Microbiologist Annayal Yikum prepares patient samples for the COVID-19 testing process.
A 52nd Humboldt County resident has died of COVID-19, Public Health reported today, while confirming 16 new cases of the virus and one new hospitalization. Since the beginning of July, the county has recorded two virus-related deaths, a press release states. Last month, seven deaths were recored, the same number as January 2021 and the second highest since December 2020, before vaccines were widely available. Health officials continue to stress vaccination as the best defense against serious illness and death. Vaccine is ava
Posted By Thadeus Greenson@ThadeusGreenson on Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 3:56 PM click to enlarge Public health A Humboldt County Public Health Laboratory employee processes a COVID-19 test. Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 28 new COVID-19 cases since Friday after laboratories processed 334 samples with a test-positivity rate of 8.4 percent. Two new hospitalizations were also reported, including a resident in their 40s. According to a state database, five people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally, including two under intensive care. Over the past week, more than half the 60 cases confirmed locally were in residents under the age of 30, including 16 in residents 10 to 19 years old and five i