CORONAVIRUS: Thursday 1/7/21 roundup

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Tonight’s virus-crisis update:

NEWEST KING COUNTY NUMBERS: The Public Health daily-summary dashboard did not post a 12/31 daily update, so we don’t have the week-ago numbers, only today’s cumulative totals:

*66,486 people have tested positive, 855 more than yesterday’s total

*1,132 people have died, 15 more than yesterday’s total

*4,377 people have been hospitalized, 37 more than yesterday’s total

*765,546 people have been tested, 2,240 more than yesterday’s total

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

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: 88 million cases worldwide, 21.5 million of them in the U.S. See the nation-by-nation breakout here.

HOW THE PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED LIVES: King County has published results of a survey done lqte in the summer.

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ARPigeonPoint January 8, 2021 (12:24 am)

This is so bad. 😞

psps January 8, 2021 (1:06 am)

WAAHHH! I don’t like this! I want to pretend it isn’t happening! I want to get drunk at my bar, eat inside, get my tattoo! Masks are against my freedumb! It’s all Inslee’s fault! WAAHHH!

N January 8, 2021 (3:30 am)

Well, there is the spike from Christmas gathering.

jissy January 8, 2021 (8:08 am)

I thought the same thing, Arpigeonpoint – so much so that I clicked through to the State data and there was this note at the top: “ January 7, 2021 data note: Total case counts may include up to 550 duplicates and negative test results data are incomplete from November 21-30, 2020 and December 23 through today. Thus, percent positivity (Testing tab) and case counts should be interpreted with caution. The Epidemiologic Curves tab is the most accurate representation of COVID activity and is updated daily as new cases are identified and duplicates are resolved.”

WSB January 8, 2021 (10:19 am)

Please note, there are notes like that almost every day. The county page carried a clearly inaccurate note about people-tested counts being “frozen” for weeks though the number went up daily and clearly was NOT frozen. But I agree that while the day-to-day is interesting, the trends are what to pay the most attention to … again, there’s no “week-ago” numbers in this roundup because there was no 12/31 update (blamed by the county on “outages”) – only day I can remember that happening in this near-year.