CORONAVIRUS: Tuesday 9/1 roundup

First virus-crisis roundup of the new month:

KING COUNTY’S NUMBERS: From the Public Health daily-summary dashboard:

*19,711 people have tested positive, up 46 from yesterday’s total

*724 people have died, up 4 from yesterday’s total

*2,234 people have been hospitalized, up 5 from yesterday’s total

*365,209 people have been tested, up 3,774 from yesterday’s total

One week ago, those totals were 18,877/712/2,198/344,954.

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: Find them here.

TWO MORE AREA DEATHS: 98116 has recorded its 4th death, and 98146 has its 13th. Here are the current counts in the three other zip codes that are entirely or partly within West Seattle:

98136 – 3
98106 – 4
98126 – 14

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: Find them here.

SHELTER MOVES: The Southwest Teen Life Center is no longer hosting a temporary “de-intensifying” shelter for youth/young adults.

BACK TO SCHOOL: We looked at the pandemic-era plans for two more independent schools tonight – Tilden School and Westside School (both WSB sponsors).

‘HAZARD PAY’ PROTEST: Grocery workers who want their employers to reinstate “hazard pay” demonstrated at Westwood Village today.

#REDALERT: As mentioned in our daily preview, many Seattle buildings were illuminated in red tonight to call attention to the still-shuttered live-events industry. See a sampling here.

BRIEFING TOMORROW: For the weekly update on the statewide situation, watch the media briefing with the state’s COVID-19 response leaders tomorrow (Wednesday) at 2 pm; it’ll be streamed here.

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Bandana September 2, 2020 (5:40 am)

46 new cases is a good mid-week number compared to the past couple of months. Mask up so schools can open up.

Flo B September 2, 2020 (6:44 am)

Do you know where the deaths in 98116 occurred? I’m aware that 1 was in a care facility. That person was elderly with many underlying issues.

WSB September 2, 2020 (8:53 am)

No, King County Public Health doesn’t report anything more specific, aside from long-term-care facilities with five or kore deaths, of which The Mount (which is in 98126) remains the only one in West Seattle, holding at 7.

wsresident September 2, 2020 (7:16 am)

I sure wish Seattle could split off and report on our own, the numbers are so different in Seattle. We are at ZERO new cases. :(

Hg September 2, 2020 (11:38 am)

We’re really at zero??!!
- WSB September 2, 2020 (11:56 am)
  
  If you look at the city by city breakdown of yesterday’s stats, the 46 cases reported countywide *for that day* included 0 attributed to Seattle. Hard to tell the anomalies when you get that granular, and there’s no archive of previous dates.
  - Tim September 2, 2020 (7:34 pm)
    
    According to the King County site, Seattle had 30 cases Tuesday, not zero. (But only 4 on Monday!). Today it says 40 – not sure if final numbers are in yet.
    - WSB September 2, 2020 (8:05 pm)
      
      It was 0 when I looked this morning. They don’t update the dashboard these days until 3-5 pm, and the stats are always from the previous day. But again, that’s why we stick to the basics in this update and have been tracking the same basics for six months now, with a couple additions.

Gwen September 2, 2020 (7:20 am)

Cautiously optimistic.

Tim September 2, 2020 (9:22 am)

@WSRESIDENT Wait, you’re saying that Seattle doesn’t report on its own, but you know we have zero new cases? Source, please?

AdmiralE September 2, 2020 (10:17 am)

If you go to the King County Website you can filter by City. Some, like Clyde Hill, are pretty boring, others are more interesting