April 20, 2021 at 3:44 pm
Snohomish County is at risk of being one of the next counties to roll back to Phase 2 of reopening when the state re-evaluates COVID-19 data on May 3.
In order to remain in Phase 3, large counties need to have 200 or fewer new cases per 100,000 residents over two weeks and five or fewer hospitalizations per 100,000 residents over the past week. As of Tuesday, Snohomish County has now crested one of those thresholds, sitting at 205 new cases per 100,000.
For new cases, the county has seen its numbers double in less than a month, increasing by over 250% since March’s low of 85 new cases per 100,000. The 950 cases the county saw for the week of April 4 also marked the highest single-week total Snohomish County has seen since the start of the fall and winter wave last November.
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Washington state extends COVID-19 vaccination eligibility
March 17, 2021 11:30 AM ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE (AP) Washington state has extended COVID-19 vaccination eligibility on Wednesday to people in the next phase, including grocery store workers, transit workers and first responders, health officials said.
The Washington State Department of Health estimates 740,000 more residents will now be eligible, raising concerns among people who were already eligible residents but have not yet been inoculated, KOMO-TV reported Tuesday.
“We are worried about the thickness of traffic of some sites where the sties go into – a slow motion situation,” said Bonnie McGuire, a retired school principal turned volunteer.
She said the trick is to get online early to reserve a vaccination, even overnight, and to remember to keep refreshing the reservation page while waiting and navigating through it.
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