CORONAVIRUS: Sunday 12/6 roundup

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Tonight’s local virus-crisis toplines:

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

*47.618 people have tested positive, up 363 from yesterday’s total

*894 people have died, unchanged since Friday

*3,400 people have been hospitalized, up 30 from yesterday’s total

*651,275 people have been tested (the state backlog of negative results hasn’t been resolved yet, so King County calls this number frozen, but it’s still going up each day)

One week ago, the King County totals were 43,740/858/3,190/626,435.

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: See them here.

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: 67 million cases and 1,536.000+ deaths – see the nation-by-nation breakdown here.

CLOSURE: Zeeks Pizza in West Seattle is temporarily closed for the second time in a month; employees were told a staff member had tested positive.

NO COVID CASES: The site director of West Seattle’s only city-sanctioned tiny-house encampment told its Community Advisory Committee today that no one there has tested positive.

COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: Want to talk about how the pandemic is affecting your life? You’re invited to the next Community Conversation with three Department of Neighborhoods reps – Osbaldo, Laura, and Alvin. Here’s how to be part of it.

GOT SOMETHING TO REPORT? EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT? OR? westseattleblog@gmail.com or 206-293-6302, text/voice – thank you!

Diane December 6, 2020 (11:46 pm)

any new info re COVID status at The Mount?

Graciano December 7, 2020 (4:35 am)

Bravo to the Encampment! This shows they know how to social distance and wear masks in such a small environment.

JJ December 7, 2020 (7:27 am)

Does the tiny house group have a testing program? Saying there are no cases means nothing without testing. Schools also say they have very little transmission- without testing. Same with workplaces. All through this pandemic rosey things have been declared without any evidence. Keep your masks and fresh air until you have real evidence that the plague is over, and after we are vaccinated.

AMD December 7, 2020 (9:03 am)

The story linked above states they’re working on arranging for everyone to be tested *again*, which, to me, implied that yes, they do have some level of testing program.
- WSB December 7, 2020 (9:35 am)
  
  Yes, we’ve reported on testing for camp residents before.
  - JJ December 7, 2020 (12:20 pm)
    
    That’s good news. Thanks. So many transmissible cases are missed. 2 rounds of testing in 10 months says a little bit about 2 distinct points in time. But I’m especially glad, also, if they have not had any severe illness or unexpected “natural” deaths.

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