Press release from the Yurok Tribe:
Today,
the Yurok Tribe, Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria, the
Wiyot Tribe and the Trinidad Rancheria announced their support of the
California Attorney General’s effort to pursue a court order
requiring the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services
Child Welfare Services Division and the Humboldt County Sheriff’s
Office to fully and transparently implement the terms of a 2018 court
ruling regarding the agencies’ mismanagement of child abuse and
neglect cases.
California
Attorney General Xavier Becerra recently took a first step toward
extending the conditions in the Court-ordered Judgment against the
On December 14, 2020, North Coast state senator Mike McGuire announced that 327,000 doses of the vaccine had been delivered to California and distributed across the state.
In a county-by-county review of California’s northern reaches. Humboldt County was the first to successfully secure a shipment of COVID-19 vaccinations. Today, we learned from Mendocino County CEO Carmel Angelo that 975 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations have arrived there also
Lake County has yet to receive the vaccines., Angelo told us.
According to a report from KDRV, Siskiyou County expects to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine doses early next week.
An article published by KRCR indicates that Del Norte County will be getting the first doses of COVID-19 vaccinations by early next week.
Posted By Iridian Casarez on Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 4:17 PM click to enlarge The Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that three staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 at Sempervirens 24-Hour Psychiatric Hospital, a 16-bed in-patient facility in Eureka. According to the release, one staff member and a close contact tested positive for the virus on Sunday while the third tested positive during routine testing on Tuesday. The release also states that staff members and patients were tested for the virus. Another round of testing will be done this week. The facility has designated an isolation unit in a separate part of the building should any of the patients test positive for the virus.