CORONAVIRUS: Sunday 10/18 roundup

October 18, 2020 10:30 pm

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Wrapping up our weekend, here are tonight’s pandemic notes:

KING COUNTY’S NEWEST NUMBERS: First, the cumulative totals from the Public Health daily-summary dashboard:

*25,097 people have tested positive, up 105 from yesterday’s total

*785 people have died, unchanged from yesterday’s total

*2,480 people have been hospitalized, up 2 from yesterday’s total

*485,294 people have been tested, down 16,417 from yesterday’s total (attributed to “data corrections”)

One week ago, the King County totals were 24,053/776/2,434/480,195.

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: See them here.

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: 39.8 million cases and 1,112,000+ deaths – see the nation-by-nation breakdown here.

PANDEMIC-STYLE HALLOWEEN: We’re getting more announcements of pandemic-style distanced events, like this one: Drive-up trick-or-treating at the Duwamish Tribe Longhouse on Halloween afternoon.

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2 Replies to "CORONAVIRUS: Sunday 10/18 roundup"

Mike Monteleone October 19, 2020 (9:33 am)

Can you tell me where to find the weekly state wide number of deaths from COVID-19?
- Neutral October 19, 2020 (11:48 am)
  
  Mike,
  
  Here are the two I use:
  
  This one is the Dashboard for Overall State and Counties:
  
  https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/DataDashboard
  
  This one is for the risk assessment (Per/100k) to see where the state and counties are for specific numbers required for reopening.
  
  https://www.coronavirus.wa.gov/what-you-need-know/covid-19-risk-assessment-dashboard
  
  I use the risk assessment more as specific businesses and youth sports have requirements to meet depending on their level of “opening”. I’ll have to research why the total tests reduced by over 16,000. That reduction appears to have increased the per/100k numbers, which is unsettling…depending on the cause of removing so many tests from the equation.

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