# # #Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich again sat down to answer questions from local media today.At the outset she expressed condolences to the friends, family and people who worked with the 97-year-old Alder Bay resident who died as a result of COVID-19 complications over the weekend, becoming the county’s first COVID-related fatality.Today’s media…
Hank Sims / Today @ 5:27 p.m. / COVID-19 and HumboldtVIDEO: In Discussion of Newsom’s Announcement Today, Sheriff and Public Health Officer Say Humboldt Should be Ready to Partially Reopen Friday ###PREVIOUSLY:California Can Begin Reopening This Week, Gov. Newsom Announces###This afternoon, county public information officer Samantha Karges hosted a discussion with Public Health Officer Dr.…
Ryan Burns / Yesterday @ 5:08 p.m. / COVID-19 and Humboldt(VIDEO) The County Tested 230 People Today and Expects to Keep That Rate Up, Health Officer Says # # #It’s “Media Availability” time again! Above you’ll find video of Humboldt County Health Officer Dr. Teresa Frankovich answering the latest batch of questions from local media.…
It appears President Trump had the last laugh as his satirical video mocking President Obama's recent endorsement of former Vice President Joe Biden has garnered more views within hours than Obama's 12-minute address did in the last week.Obama endorsed his former running mate after all of Biden's primary rivals withdrew from the presidential race. The widely publicized…
It's widely known that COVID-19 is contagious and can be transmitted through droplets from coughing, sneezing and talking in close proximity to others.A new experiment that uses lasers of light shows just how far spit can travel in the air when talking. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, are shown on…
(Oona Zenda/KFF Health News) As Grace Griffin and her husband were welcoming their long-awaited baby — a daughter — Griffin found herself worried about looming medical bills and unsure if their family could pay for the care they needed. “This whole experience has me wondering (keeping me up at night, actually): Can we ever afford
LYON, France — Halving the dose of antenatal betamethasone given to prevent severe respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in infants does not appear to affect later intelligence quotient (IQ) scores or other measures of neurodevelopment, suggests a follow-up study of a randomized trial. However, it is unclear from the present data, presented at the Congress of
After years of searching for affordable health insurance, Trey Wright discovered Georgia Pathways to Coverage. The state’s limited Medicaid expansion program allowed the 27-year-old living in the rural city of Jesup in southeastern Georgia to finally visit a primary care doctor regularly. It also covered weekly shots to manage an array of allergies, saving him