Medical / Health

NCJ Preview: Cal Poly Humboldt Plans, Feeding Lao and Hmong Families

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on February 5, 2022 at 8:30AM

What does the shift to Cal Poly Humboldt mean beyond a run on HSU hoodies? We'll break down the infrastructure, curriculum and housing impacts on the university, the city of Arcata and Humboldt at large.

NCJ Preview: Spectator Ban, Outgoing Health Officer, Cookie Perfectionism and More

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on January 15, 2022 at 2:06PM

There'll be no spectators at Humboldt County school sporting events, at least for the next couple of weeks. We'll go into how the Humboldt Del Norte League came to that decision in the face of quickly rising COVID-19 case numbers and the ensuing backlash.

NCJ Preview: Behind the Top 10s of 2021

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on January 1, 2022 at 8:00AM

As the year comes to an end, we're talking about the Top 10 stories fo 2021 from this week's cover — COVID, Su-Meg, local government and more — and how we came up with our list. That includes how we determined the Top 10 Dick Moves and why we dig into the pettiness.

NCJ Preview: ACEs and Doctors, a Cafe's Community

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on December 19, 2021 at 5:00PM

This week we're looking at how local pediatricians are considering toxic stress and ACEs — adverse childhood experiences — in their diagnoses and treatments. In some cases, that means recommending other means of support and stress relief for kids and their families, instead of immediately turning to medication.

NCJ Preview: Missed Messages, Card Art and Taco Joy

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on December 13, 2021 at 10:32AM

This week we're grateful to be able to share the email correspondence between Heather Muller and her mother over the course of the pandemic and some of the issues it raises: How are we talking with and past one another about safety, vaccination and social isolation? We're also looking at The Card Show, an annual group exhibition that's at Epitome Gallery this year, with 270 playing card sized and inspired pieces.

NCJ Preview: Native Boarding School Deaths, COVID Update and More

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on October 23, 2021 at 2:19PM

As the U.S. and Canada face a reckoning over the abuse of Indigenous children in their forced boarding school systems, researchers in Oregon have been working to document the deaths of children at the Chemawa Indian School. Some of those children were from here in Humboldt County.

NCJ Preview: Vaccines and County Staff, Police Shooting Footage and Restoring the Eureka Theater

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on October 16, 2021 at 2:08PM

This week we're looking at why the board of supervisors declined to require vaccines for county employees, going for weekly testing for the unvaccinated instead. We're also going into what's on newly released footage from last month's police shooting of a suspect on Mad River Road, as well as how law affects what's made public and how.

NCJ Preview: Enterprise, Burgers, Place Names and Etiquette

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on September 25, 2021 at 5:18PM

This week we're looking at the future of the Ferndale Enterprise, newly purchased by North Coast Journal Inc. And it's Burger Week, so we're sharing what's whetting our appetites and whether you can eat 28 burgers in 10 days. Good luck, friends.

NCJ Preview: The State of COVID and a Nicaraguan Food Journey

By Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on September 4, 2021 at 8:00AM

This week we've got an update on the endemic spread of COVID-19 in our county and the strain it's putting on hospital staff. As numbers climb faster than our vaccination rate, the ICU at St. Joseph Hospital fills and staff deal with illness and deaths of community members — some of whom they know personally.

NCJ Preview: COVID-19, Street Art and a Recall

By Thadeus Greenson on August 30, 2021 at 7:12AM

This week, we take a closer look at Humboldt County's current COVID-19 surge, which is fueled by the highly contagious Delta variant and threatening local hospital capacity with reverberating impacts. We also discuss the festival transforming Eureka's streets with colorful murals, and what voters need to know to fill out their ballots for the upcoming California recall election.

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