CORONAVIRUS: Friday 4/10 roundup

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Stay home this weekend! The governor repeated that today, topping our nightly roundup, six weeks after King County’s first COVID-19 case was reported:

GOVERNOR REPEATS ‘STAY HOME, STAY HEALTHY’: In a mid-afternoon news conference, Gov. Inslee was joined by local leaders of tourism-dependent areas from Ocean Shores to the San Juans, as they all repeated the refrain: Stay home this weekend, to help keep the coronavirus from spreading.The governor also hauled out a few charts to show what could happen if people get complacent. Here’s video of the briefing.

REMEMBER, DON’T GO TO ALKI OR LINCOLN PARK: From late tonight until early Monday, they’re closed (as are West Seattle Stadium and 12 other major city parks). We’ll be checking around midday to see how that goes. We noticed an SDOT crew setting up a messageboard sign along north/westbound Harbor Avenue tonight, perhaps to warn of the closure.

NEWEST KING COUNTY NUMBERS: From today’s Seattle-King County Public Health news release:

4,117 confirmed positive cases (up 231 from yesterday)

277 confirmed deaths (up 19 from yesterday)

One week ago, the county reported 2,787 cases and 186 deaths.

NO MORE DAILY NEWS RELEASES: Starting next week, SKCPH says, they’ll only send out news releases on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, unless something huge happens. But they say the daily numbers will continue to be updated on the data dashboard.

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: 9,887 cases, 475 deaths; see the full iist of state stats here.

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: Find them – nation by nation – here.

NEED HELP WITH RENT? The city and county have joined private donors in contributing to a new United Way of King County fund to help people who can’t pay their April rent. It was announced in a news conference in which we participated this morning. The fund has $5 million for starters. Our area has an emergency rent assistance social-service agency, the West Seattle Food Bank, so we asked WSFB how people would know how to seek help. UWKC is among the resources to which they direct people, explained executive director Fran Yeatts. Find out more about the new fund, and apply if you need to, here.

NEED FOOD? More giving going on, this time courtesy of Delridge’s KBM Commissary.

THIS WEEKEND: As we did today for Good Friday, we’ll be publishing Easter and Passover online-event links Saturday by mid-afternoon. (Not too late to send us yours!)

YES, WE WILL: Thanks to Melissa for the chalk art from SW Rose:

GOT INFO? westseattleblog@gmail.com or text/voice 206-293-6302 – thank you!

Josie April 10, 2020 (10:16 pm)

I think the statewide numbers from last week might be off—you’re reporting a higher death count in the county than in the whole state for that time period.

WSB April 10, 2020 (10:52 pm)

Yeah, that was a carryover error, sorry, fixed.

psps April 11, 2020 (1:14 am)

How social distancing works:https://youtu.be/o4PnSYAqQHU

J April 11, 2020 (2:35 am)

So, when we had the outbreak at Lifecare we often had handfuls of deaths per day, and that was with CDC on site to help manage the outbreak… now we have 100-200 or so facilities with known outbreaks. They are on their own with no CDC on site, no government shipments of PPE, and limited access to the faulty testing. It’s hard to believe they are not having any deaths. Where are those numbers? Do the lives of people suddenly not count if they aren’t registered on a hospital ward? These numbers seem like the worst kind of discrimination. People are people no matter where they die.

Lola April 11, 2020 (6:49 am)

They need to extend the closure on the Parks and Beaches. I see so many people down at Lincolin Park and Alki.

M April 11, 2020 (12:19 pm)

How does one see so many people down at Lincoln Park unless they are one themself?
- Vic April 11, 2020 (7:35 pm)
  
  you can easily see them crossing the parking lot headed toward the water, or entering through the trees without being in the park yourself.

wseakell April 11, 2020 (7:06 am)

I feel like I may have had the virus in late February. My dad found a lab that is doing the antibody test (he feels like he had it around the same time too and wants to see his grandkids so bad), ARCPOINT Labs, and they have a location in West Seattle. My dad, his wife, and I am going in for a test Monday (at separate times so not in a group). I’m interested to see the results! I wonder if having this test will become the norm over the next couple of months?Here’s a link to learn more: https://www.arcpointlabs.com/covid-19-antibody-testing/

OnHarbor April 11, 2020 (8:46 am)

The pedestrian gate to Jack Block Park is also closed this morning.

Randy April 11, 2020 (10:24 am)

We all need to use common sense. I am depending on this for friendship.

Proverbs 3:5-6

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