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(VIDEOS) County Health Officials Talk Vaccine Rollout, Urge Locals: ‘Please Don’t Gather for Christmas’
The Humboldt County Joint Information Center (JIC) sent out a pair of videos Monday afternoon following the staggering count of 113 new cases and one new fatality reported since Friday. In one…
(VIDEO) How Many Humboldters Have Been Vaccinated So Far? Health Officer Takes Media Questions on the Vaccine Rollout
…asked with a timestamp corresponding to their place in the video above. ### (0:15) The North Coast Journal asks… The county reported earlier this week that it received 975 doses of the…
How Many Granada Residents Will Die? Deputy Health Officer Dr. Josh Ennis Takes Media Questions on the Pandemic
…Video above, rough transcript below.### The North Coast News asks, "Are county health officials keeping track of the number of workplace outbreaks, defined as three or more cases within 14 days, and…
(VIDEO) A Local Nurse Practitioner Answers Tons of Questions About the Vaccine and How it’s Being Administered in Humboldt
…Who's getting it now? Who's getting it next? What happens after you get it? How does it work?Video above, rough transcript below.###Good afternoon, we're here today with…
Traffic Safety, Budget Update, New Department Head and Implementing the Voters’ Will on the Agenda at Tuesday’s Eureka City Council Meeting
…The council will also hear a report on traffic safety within the city, which may be especially notable given the number of high-profile collisions in the last few weeks, including one…
Deputy Health Officer Answers Questions on the COVID Outbreak at Granada and the Coming Vaccine
…Now when it comes to what they’re presenting on a public-facing page, I don’t know what their process looks like for reporting of that, of their internal number, but…
Video Shows Three People Running for Their Lives as Multiple Waves Nearly Sweep Them Off the North Jetty
Video by Sequoyah Faulk-Kellogg.Around the same time that a 67-year-old woman was washed off the North Jetty by heavy surf this afternoon, three others on the exposed walkway…
(VIDEO) Search and Rescue Underway for 67-Year-Old Woman Who Was Reportedly Swept Out to Sea at the North Jetty, Sheriff’s Office Says
Video of the scene provided by reader Daniele Smith.UPDATE, 1:10 p.m.:The sheriff's office reports that the victim is out of the water and that CPR is in…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: The Mask Column
…Watch this four-minute video for a convincing demonstration. One study in The Lancet estimates that surgical and comparable cloth masks are 67% effective.As I’ve written before, wearing a mask…
Humboldt Slackliner With Nads of Steel Admits to Removing that Dumb Utah Monolith
…Slackline,” where he posted video of himself and some friends dismantling the world-captivating metal structure, loading it into a wheel barrow and hauling the thing off under cover of night. Observe…
Sheriff Honsal Requests Copy of DOJ Investigation, Vows ‘I Will Hold Those Employees Accountable for Their Actions’
…As previously reported, such self-dealing violates California government code section 27443, making it a crime punishable by a $1,000 fine, up to a year in the county jail or both…
How Election Officials Fought Fiction With Fact
…Votebeat reporters Lewis Griswold, Michael Lozano, and UC Berkeley Journalism School reporter Aaron Leathley contributed to this story. This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan reporting project covering local election…
Video Captures Unidentified Bozos Illegally Dumping a Truckload of Garbage Near Manila
Video courtesy David from Manila. ###On Sunday, the Outpost was sent the above video, which shows some human garbage brazenly dumping a truckload of literal garbage at the intersection of Vance Avenue…
Gatherings, Including 100-Person Event, Have Caused Our ‘Steep Climb’ in Cases, Frankovich Says, Urging Caution for Thanksgiving
###In today's media availability video, Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich reiterates some of the information released earlier today, including the fact that while our local case data would typically…
How California Reached Historic Voter Turnout Despite Pandemic, Distrust
…3, voter registrars say they had little need for law enforcement help and reported insignificant incidents affecting ballot safety. They reported historic numbers of ballots cast, about 17.6 million at last…
In Media Availability, Public Health Officer Issues Grave Warning About Gathering During the Holidays, and During the Case Spike
…The Times-Standard asks, "There have been reports nationwide of spikes in demand for COVID-19 testing as the holidays approach. What advice would you give people who think that testing negative…
Not Dire, for Now: California Expects $26 Billion Windfall Despite Pandemic
…to the severe economic pullback and COVID-19 pandemic,” Legislative Analyst Gabe Petek told reporters in a video conference call. “But as it turns out, revenues have proven to be much more…
(VIDEO) Eureka Police Remove Anti-Masker From Costco By Force, Say Case Will be Forwarded to DA for Charging Decision
…officers were summoned to Costco on report of a woman refusing to wear a mask inside the store and making a scene about it.In video shot of the incident by another…
‘We Can Get Out of This’: Humboldt County’s Health Officer Takes Questions on the Recent Spike in Cases and Our Movement Into the Red Tier
…Frankovich retired from her position with the county two months ago, but has stayed on until another person can be found.)Video above, rough transcript below.###The Times-Standard asks, "Are any…
Preparing for the Surge: Humboldt’s Deputy Public Health Officer Takes Questions on Rising COVID Cases and the County’s Response
…So cases may fall into one reporting week and then they may get moved into another reporting week and so for that reason, we can only produce best estimates of the data…
Dr. Ennis Urges You to Get Tested and Tells You You’re Probably Not Going to Get Those Monoclonal Antibodies Quite Yet
…The Two Rivers Tribune asks, “Why are the County's numbers for Hoopa different than what Hoopa is reporting?” The way we report this data is by ZIP code, because that is…
California’s COVID Cases Inching Up Amid Nationwide Surges
…By comparison, Nevada is reporting a 14-day positivity rate of 13.6%. Michigan has a positivity rate of 11.7% and, in Arizona, 10.1% of tests are coming back positive…
Eureka Police Now Believe Recent Old Town Death to Be Result of Self-Inflicted Wine Bottle Injury
…The autopsy results coupled with the video surveillance and lack of any disturbance reports during a high traffic time, lead the Eureka Police Department to believe that a homicide did not take…
RIO DELL MURDER TRIAL: In Closing Arguments, Defense Attorneys Lean Hard on Theory That Unidentified Jamaican Man Named ‘Dread’ Was the Actual Killer
…But according to the Eureka Police Department’s custodian of records, there was no report of any disturbance at the park, which is in a residential neighborhood. Coleman left the park with…
In Today’s Media Availability, Deputy Health Officer Talks About Rapid Testing, Kids and COVID and Handling the Surge
…Case counts are not the same things as hospitalization, so when we report out eight cases on this past Monday, for example — that includes all cases that came in Friday, Saturday and…
HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION: 48-Year-Old Man Dies After Being Found Injured in Old Town Today; Police Seeking Surveillance Video
…On November 2, 2020, at about 11:30 a.m., officers with the Eureka Police Department (EPD) responded to the area of J and 3rd Streets for the report of man down…
(VIDEO) Aggressive Driver Nearly Hits McKinleyville Protester During Yesterday’s Pro-Trump Parade
…The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and the California Highway Patrol both told the Outpost that they received no reports on the incident. “Throughout the event, we responded to several reports of…
(UPDATING) Hundreds of Flag-Waving Trumpers Depart Fortuna for Countywide Political Parade
A parade of Trumpers prepares to take off from Fortuna. | Photos and video by Andrew Goff.Update, 2:30 p.m.:Protesters for and against President Trump peacefully intersected at the Humboldt…
Humboldt County Health Officer Discusses Schools Reopening, Outdoor Events, Celebrating Halloween, Elections and More
…We pull this data from CalREDIE, which is the state reporting system, so in our day-to-day reporting when we're talking about our cases and isolation and quarantine and all…
(VIDEO) Firefighters Make Quick Work of Vegetation Fire Burning Near Rio Dell
Photos and video of the fire provided by local photographer Kevin LoMiglio.Numerous firefighting agencies responded to a vegetation fire that was reported north of Rio Dell near the intersection of Price…