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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