× By Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times
Published: April 30, 2021, 9:30am
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As Washington schools reopen to more students, one concern at top of mind for many families and teachers is this: How are schools ventilating classrooms to reduce the chance of spreading COVID-19?
The Seattle Times Education Lab received a surge of questions over the past month about how air quality is measured in schools, the ways schools can keep air circulating and how ventilation stacks up relative to other school safety measures. To answer your questions, we spoke with public health and occupational safety experts about improving ventilation. We also asked Seattle Public Schools for a demonstration of how employees assess buildings and ventilation equipment for air flow.
I don t know the long-term effects : Vaccine hesitancy persists amid rise in supply
Kent city leaders urge vaccinations as thousands of doses still available
At the ShoWare Center in Kent, thousands of doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are available and more doses are expected, but some community members are concerned regarding the vaccine. Q13 s Hana Kim reports.
KENT, Wash. - The conversation at Futuristic Stylz Beauty Braid Bar in Kent often turns to coronavirus vaccines. Just blocks away from Jazzmaine Bailey’s salon, there is a sign welcoming anyone to walk right into ShoWare to get a shot and no appointment needed.
The wrong headline
Seattle Times put on a well-researched and considered story is: Seattle residents are flocking to South King County during COVID pandemic. COVID? What? But we all know that the headline should add this obvious detail: White Seattle residents are. . South King County is where a lot of brown and black people moved to after being displaced by rich white people in the Central District and South Seattle. And now, of course, the city is becoming too expensive even for lots of middle-class white people, and so they are packing up and moving down to where their wealth forced working-class black and brown people to move during the 90s and 00s.
King County public health officials are warning that a return to Phase 2 of the state's pandemic reopening plan is likely with COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations on the rise.