CORONAVIRUS: Thursday 11/5 roundup

Tonight’s pandemic-related local news and numbers:

NEWEST KING COUNTY NUMBERS: From the Public Health daily-summary dashboard, the cumulative totals – and this time, unlike last night, no disclaimer for the first number:

*29,465 people have tested positive, up 517 from yesterday’s total

*810 people have died, up 1 from yesterday’s total

*2,629 people have been hospitalized, up 8 from yesterday’s total

*558,794 people have been tested, up 8,163 from yesterday’s total

One week ago, those totals were 27,038/803/2,565/533,550.

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: Find them, county by county, on the state Department of Health page,.

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: 48.6 million cases worldwide, 9.6 million of them in the U.S. See the nation-by-nation breakout here.

NEED FOOD? Free emergency food boxes are available again 2-5 pm tomorrow at Food Lifeline HQ (815 S. 96th).

TESTING & REOPENING SCHOOLS: A new report exploring what role testing could play in reopening schools is out. This summary, among other things, “reaffirms the importance of reducing community transmission prior to reopening K-12 schools for in-person learning and implementing school-based countermeasures.”

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5 Replies to "CORONAVIRUS: Thursday 11/5 roundup"

  • JJ November 6, 2020 (3:57 am)

    Regarding school children… this study shows a 6 fold higher positively rate than reported. Children are often asymptotic spreaders. Besides masking, I bet that keeping our largest district remote has kept our fall surge slower than some other states… https://www.cell.com/med/pdf/S2666-6340(20)30020-9.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666634020300209%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

  • N November 6, 2020 (9:01 am)

    Wow!  Averaging ~350/day over the past week.  And we thought ~175/day was high during summer peak.  

  • Jamie November 6, 2020 (10:16 am)

    Is it possible to view data on the Safe Start Violations for West Seattle? I’ve seen a few restaurants which aren’t requiring employees to wear masks. I want to avoid these restaurants – especially given the increasing infection rates – but can only find reporting based on formal records requests. Is there a website with this data?

    • Cindy November 6, 2020 (7:02 pm)

       I encourage you to report. There is a mask mandate. When you see the stats for restaurant workers getting sick with Covid (not just testing positive) In this county, you would think the owners and staff would be very diligent.https://www.coronavirus.wa.gov/report-safe-start-violation

  • flimflam November 6, 2020 (10:59 am)

    that’s terrible news.

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