Coronavirus: Death toll, confirmed cases increase in Washington – KIRO Seattle

SEATTLE — The artificial of coronavirus cases continues to amplify as extra counties earn been getting motivate check outcomes.

On Sunday, the loss of life toll in Washington explain reached 19 and the confirmed cases, reported by the Washington Division of Health, hit not lower than 136.

And it used to be fully hours later, the Grant County Health District reported the county’s first loss of life from the coronavirus. That number has not been integrated but within the DOH loss of life toll substitute of 18.

As reported by the DOH on Sunday, the present breakdown of cases by county is as follows: King County, 83; Snohomish County, 31; and Pierce County, four. Grant, Jefferson, Clark, and Kittitas all each and each describe one confirmed case.

Additionally, there are 14 “unassigned” obvious cases, in step with the Division of Health’s net explain. The uncover explain did not account for what precisely that term manner.

The Kitsap Public Health District later reported its first obvious coronavirus case, pending confirmation from the explain health department. The person that tested obvious is a Bainbridge Island resident.

Joint Irascible Lewis-McChord furthermore announced Sunday evening a provider member’s partner, who resides off-notorious and has not currently visited JBLM, tested obvious for the coronavirus Saturday.

Officials said the provider member is furthermore being tested, and he and his partner are in quarantine at house.

Sixteen of these who died in King County earn been residents of Existence Care Center, a nursing house in Kirkland, in step with Public Health – Seattle & King County. Researchers train the virus might presumably presumably furthermore earn been circulating undetected for weeks.

Cases at senior living facilities and rehab centers

LifeCare Center in Kirkland held another press conference Sunday afternoon with up up to now numbers from the energy. Public Health – Seattle & King County has said that 16 of the deaths are linked to the energy. The center said this might presumably continue day-to-day 1 p.m. press conferences till additional leer.

“Our ride up to now presentations that the virus is volatile, unpredictable, we’ve had sufferers inside of an hour time who confirmed no symptoms, going to acute symptoms, being transferred to the hospital and earn had sufferers die moderately quick,” press liaison Timothy Killian said Saturday.

As of Sunday afternoon, there are currently six residents within the energy with COVID-19 symptoms. The center said that 44 tests earn been carried out and 11 of us quiet want to be tested.

Two assorted senior communities — the Ida Culver Home Ravenna, a retirement house in northeast Seattle, and the Issaquah Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in suburban Issaquah, reported their first cases that had resulted in presumptive obvious tests for COVID-19.

The Ida Culver Home resident has been hospitalized since Wednesday, said the retirement neighborhood’s operator, Generation Living. The power has since doubled its disinfection and cleaning practices for overall areas, canceled occasions, asked workers who earn been in contact with the affected person to discontinue house, and canceled dining room meals — as a substitute turning in food to its roughly 90 residents.

The Issaquah nursing house resident used to be hospitalized on Tuesday. Three firefighters who responded there earn been quarantined nevertheless haven’t shown any symptoms, in step with Issaquah Mayor Mary Lou Pauly.

Who’s the virus affecting?

The Division of Health released a breakdown of coronavirus cases by age for the main time on Sunday. The corpulent majority of obvious cases earn been in of us 40 years of age and older, with the finest substitute of cases concentrated in of us 80 years old and above.

Of the 136 cases confirmed on Sunday afternoon, 86 of these earn been in of us age 50 and above.

UW lessons no longer meeting in individual

Friday morning, the College of Washington said though its campuses would dwell initiate, lessons would no longer be meeting in individual beginning Monday, March 9 by the head of wintry climate quarter on March 20. The college’s president said that far-off discovering out will be utilized when probably, nevertheless furthermore notified workers that in some cases, they might presumably want to submit grades in step with work.

Western Washington College, Seattle Pacific College, Shoreline Community College and Pacific Lutheran College furthermore announced that lessons will be cancelled or carried out online.

Amazon sent a message to its workers primarily based in Seattle and Bellevue and who work in a operate that can even be done from house, to invent so by the head of March. This recommendation comes in light of the modern COVID-19 guidance from King County health officials. Boeing, Nordstrom, Starbucks and Microsoft furthermore are having workers construct a living from house in March.

The Fred Hutchinson Most cancers Research Center announced all workers at its South Lake Union campus might presumably presumably furthermore quiet work remotely except in cases where their presence on campus is very well-known.

Boeing said it’s monitoring a runt substitute of workers who had secondhand publicity to the coronavirus.

Files from executive officials

Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday in an interview on “Face the Nation,” explain officials are pondering well-known measures for social distancing to support discontinue the unfold of the coronavirus.

Congresswoman Suzan DelBene toured EvergreenHealth Medical Center in Kirkland on Saturday, where several coronavirus sufferers are in quarantine. As fragment of her tour, she met with better than a dozen docs and nurses to talk about about what the hospital has done in some unspecified time in the future of the crisis and what steps might presumably presumably furthermore very smartly be followed at assorted hospitals.

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday attended a round-desk meeting with Gov. Jay Inslee, people of Washington’s congressional delegation and native officials.

The vice president used to be tasked by President Donald Trump to coordinate the U.S. executive’s response to the outbreak.

“Because the explain of Washington, and the Seattle place particularly, affords with the coronavirus, we’re going to continue to substantiate that you just earn the stout give a capture to of every and each company within the federal executive,” Pence said after touring the explain’s emergency response center. “We know you’re the entrance line.”

Query the news conference with Gov. Inslee and Vice President Pence below.

Authorities said these who want to peek an out-of-community provider would earn that check with covered as if it used to be inside of their insurance protection scheme. The characterize is important till Might presumably perhaps presumably also simply 4.

Gov. Jay Inslee and Joel Sacks, director of the Washington Division of Labor & Industries said on March 5 that the explain is straight altering its policy around workers’ compensation protection for health care workers and first responders who’re quarantined after being exposed to COVID-19 on the job.

Below the up up to now policy, L&I will present advantages to the workers whereas they’re quarantined.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Home passed spending invoice to present a capture to the response to COVID-19 around the nation, which integrated $950 million for explain and native public health agencies. Washington explain will straight glean $11.5 million for the work public health agencies earn done to wrestle the outbreak since January. The explain will furthermore be eligible for persevered resources because it in actuality works to limit the unfold of the virus.

The legislation furthermore entails a provision that enables $1 billion in mortgage subsidies to be made on hand to support runt agencies, including shellfish growers, replace-dependent producers, and others that earn been hit with financial losses on fable of the coronavirus outbreak.

Why aren’t colleges closed?

Gov. Inslee said Thursday that he is deferring the selection to shut colleges all the plan by the explain to varsity directors, nevertheless that can change at any time.

“In case you earn puzzled why I in actuality earn not made that choice at present, it is on fable of we are quiet evaluating the efficacy of that,” he said. “We’re furthermore weighing this against the wants for childcare. It is profoundly a remark for households already.”

Inslee impressed colleges to search out the probably for online teaching strategies whereas they weigh the dangers of sending children to their colleges.

Assert and regional health officials earn not suggested closing colleges. They train children usually are not going to uncover very in miserable health if they uncover COVID-19.

“The motive we usually are not recommending college closures is on fable of children earn not been shown to be a excessive risk neighborhood,” said Patty Hayes, Director of Public Health – Seattle & King County.

Health officials train when colleges closed for the H1N1 outbreak, children gathered anyway in other places and households confronted tall disruptions.

“We know extra regarding the downsides than we invent regarding the advantages at this point” of faculty closures, said Dr. Jeff Duchin, Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County.

Some colleges, agencies and various employers aren’t ready. College officials are recommending students and dad and mother contact the faculty or college district net explain in the present day.

Officials with Tacoma Public Colleges said Mary Lyon Fundamental would be closed March 9-10 on fable of a workers member tested presumptive obvious.

The trend you’d guard yourself and what to invent whereas you specialize in you earn been exposed

Signs of the coronavirus encompass fever, cough and shortness of breath. Patients reportedly earn light to extreme respiratory illness.

These are steps health officials indicate to give protection to yourself:

About coronavirus making an try out

“Currently, the Public Health Laboratory in Shoreline has the ability to study up to about 100 of us per day (though we’re not there but), nevertheless we search that extra desires to be done to amplify our capability to study of us in Western Washington, resulting from the amplify in neighborhood unfold. We can’t invent that on my own, so we’re bringing assorted companions online to support. We’re working with the College of Washington Virology Lab to ramp up ability to study for COVID-19 as smartly. This might occasionally amplify our total ability to study of us and this ability will continue to develop.

“We acknowledge that despite the indisputable truth that the laboratory check is on hand and becoming extra broadly on hand, there are obstacles in our public health and healthcare techniques’ ability to blueprint samples from of us as quick as we would like.”

The Associated Press contributed to this describe.