CORONAVIRUS: Friday 8/21 roundup

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25 weeks ago tonight, King County announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19. Here’s the latest:

NEWEST KING COUNTY NUMBERS: From the Public Health daily summary:

*18,418 people have tested positive, 105 more than yesterday

*708 people have died, 5 more than yesterday

*2,147 people have been hospitalized, 15 more than yesterday

*336,589 people have been tested, 6,365 more than yesterday

One week ago, those totals were 17,340/686/2,081/311,981.

ANOTHER AREA DEATH: 98146, part of which is in south West Seattle, just recorded its 11th death. For the record, here are the current totals for the other four zip codes that are all or partly in West Seattle:

98116 – 2
98136 – 3
98106 – 4
98126 – 14

(Providence Mount St. Vincent accounts for half of 98126’s total.)

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: See them here.

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: 22.8 million cases, 797,000+ deaths – see the nation-by-nation numbers here.

MAYOR & COUNCIL MAKE A DEAL … regarding extra economic relief for people pummeled by the pandemic.

NEED FOOD? Free lunch Saturday:

West Side Presbyterian Church Free Community Lunch, 12:00-1:00 pm. Sack lunch provided in the church courtyard at 3601 California Ave SW. Free to all.

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Not shocked August 21, 2020 (11:45 pm)

I wish we could see a decline in cases and deaths but after seeing (and hearing!) a neighbor on SW Othello St have a house party of 20+ with zero masks and all very cozy I’m not surprised. People are so inconsiderate it’s disappointing. Maybe they think all the shots I saw them doing would kill the virus?

bolo August 22, 2020 (11:14 am)

They may be on to something– after all, Alcohol is the main active ingredient in (now ubiquitous) hand sanitizer, is it not?
- Not shocked August 22, 2020 (1:48 pm)
  
  Ha! true! Guess I should pick up a few bottles.

Jamie August 22, 2020 (12:46 am)

I’m having a difficult time reconciling these stats with Governor’s assertion that things have improved enough that we are now able to open up additional activities like bowling. Are the West Seattle numbers (positive cases, hospitalizations, and deaths) actually improving? How do we compare to the rest of the state? Are things actually improving, and I’m just not seeing it?

WSB August 22, 2020 (1:09 am)

West Seattle has very few deaths overall.
For some of what else you wonder, you can go to the daily summary dashboard
https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/daily-summary.aspx
choose the GEOGRAPHY OVER TIME tab
choose HRA
note that West Seattle is broken into WS and Delridge HRAs so you have to add them
8/6-8/20 the two areas totaled 40 positives
during the preceding two weeks (click the bar), 99.
- ACG August 22, 2020 (11:38 am)
  
  Thank you for breaking down the local WS numbers, WSB. Much appreciated.
  - WSB August 22, 2020 (12:35 pm)
    
    We’ll incorporate at least a weekly check.
AMD August 22, 2020 (3:05 am)

State-wide, things are going down. They dropped significantly in Yakima County, and other Eastern Washington Counties as well that saw major jumps a couple months ago. That said, I think some opening plans have as much to do with stakeholders working through the safety concerns with officials to come up with a plan to reopen individual businesses safely versus the state deciding that case loads have reached a predetermined bench mark to re-open league bowling.

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