Bellingham hospital reports record-high COVID patient load, as Whatcom sees another death

Bad news came in threes for Whatcom County, as it continued to try to fight its way free from the grips of the latest surge of COVID-19: ▪ The county had its 12th-straight triple-digit weekend increase in COVID cases reported by the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard on Monday, Oct. 25. ▪ It also had its 155th COVID-related death of the pandemic reported by the state on Monday.