CORONAVIRUS: Monday 10/5 roundup

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The President’s out of the hospital; the pandemic continues. Here are tonight’s local toplines:

NEWEST KING COUNTY NUMBERS: Here’s today’s daily summary from Public Health – the cumulative countywide totals:

*23,149 people have tested positive, 126 more than yesterday’s total

*766 people have died, 2 more than yesterday’s total

*2,386 people have been hospitalized, 11 fewer than yesterday’s total*

*434,142 people have been tested, 2,280 more than yesterday’s total

One week ago, the totals were 22.212/758/2,362/434,142.

*The PHSKC explanation for the drop in hospitalizations: “A correction was applied to hospitalization data, which resulted in a decrease of 13 hospitalizations. There were 2 new hospitalizations reported on Oct. 5.”

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: See them here.

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

WE’RE NOT #1: The city says Seattle has the lowest case rate among 30 major cities.

REOPENING: Play areas at Seattle city parks will reopen tomorrow (details here); parking lots that have been closed at parks (Lincoln Park, for example) will reopen on October 19th.

NEED FOOD? Again this week, Food Lifeline will distribute free emergency boxes of food to anyone who shows up, 2-5 pm Friday (October 9th) at its South Park HQ, 815 S. 96th.

MEALS FOR STUDENTS & FAMILIES: All students/parents/guardians – regardless of family income – are welcome to pick up meals at 7 Seattle Public Schools sites in West Seattle/South Park, 11:15 am-1:15 pm weekdays. (Also at that link: Info on the one bus route by which meals are delivered in north WS.)

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reality check October 6, 2020 (8:02 am)

From the NY Times this morning:

‘Most other rich countries have been much more successful in fighting the virus than the U.S. A chart is the simplest way to see this:

Outbreaks are again increasing in the U.S. The number of new cases per day has risen more than 25 percent since mid-September. “Covid-19 is spreading again across most of the U.S., hammering rural America and smaller cities and raising anxiety in New York,” Bloomberg News reported yesterday.
The outbreak connected to the White House is responsible for about 30 known cases so far — more than the average daily number of new cases recently in all of Australia.The virus is genuinely terrifying for thousands of people. In addition to the more than 200,000 deaths — and all of the Americans mourning those deaths — many other people have spent weeks battling fatigue, shortness of breath, cardiac problems and more.’

smittytheclown October 6, 2020 (8:51 am)

Where do you see the 25% rise in cases? Looks just about flat since mid-August? 25% in the Midwest maybe?

Kim October 6, 2020 (10:16 am)

Give thanks some individuals in our government who haven’t taken the virus seriously and hundreds of people who have not taken the virus seriously for why there has been so many deaths and people testing positive for the virus. In Canada parents have the choice to send children to school if they wish or continue on line learning.

JJ October 6, 2020 (11:29 am)

Interesting to see that the hospitalization numbers are getting “corrected”. I bet they are taking out the strokes, heart attacks, and respiratory failure patients, and claiming the COVID is incidental. Data manipulation is one way to have lower rates than everyone else. Faulty testing would be another. Let’s hope it’s the masking and social distancing that is making our numbers lower than other cities.

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