Friends in Seattle recommended following Seattle area news outlets because amidst Super Tuesday reporting what they are hearing about the COVID-19 outbreak there is under-reported. So, here you go:
Nine people in Washington have died from COVID-19, the illness caused by a new coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, and officials say that an extraordinary effort to contain and manage the health crisis is moving toward a new stage.
As of 6 p.m. Tuesday, at least 27 people in King and Snohomish counties had been diagnosed with COVID-19. Seven new cases were announced Tuesday in King County, bringing the county’s overall total to 21.
The majority of King County’s cases are linked to the Life Care Center of Kirkland, and seven of the nine people who have died were residents of the nursing home. This has prompted a wave of questions from family members with relatives inside Life Care and scrutiny over how prepared the care facility and others are for an outbreak.
People living in White Center are voicing concern after King County started setting up a temporary quarantine village for people with coronavirus in the middle of a neighborhood.
King County has started work on temporary housing for people who may need to be quarantined because of exposure to coronavirus.
The county started moving in trailers Tuesday afternoon in the White Center neighborhood in the 200 block of southwest 112th Street. None of the neighbors in the area had a clue about the temporary housing and many were asking why was their neighborhood chosen.
The units will not have water or sewer at first. Porta potties will be provided. Memories of SNL’s “sanitized for your protection” skit from 1977.
Siting modular isolation trailers follows news from a couple of days ago that King County officials plan to purchase a hotel to house patients during quarantine. The location of Outbreak Hotel has not been announced. Perhaps “down at the end of Lonely Street”?
The first presumptive case of the novel coronavirus in North Carolina is linked to a Kirkland, Washington nursing home facility where five residents were sick and later died, authorities in the Tar Heel state said Tuesday.
The new patient is from Wake County, home to Raleigh and 1.1 million people. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said the person was exposed at a center in Washington where there is a Covid-19 outbreak while on a trip.
The man is in isolation at home. His test has not been confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Officials are investigating how many others may have come in contact with him between Seattle and Raleigh.
On how many airplanes and airports?
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