COVID infection rates increase across Whatcom, but 2 regions reach vaccination milestones

A week after COVID-19 infection rates in all seven Whatcom County school district regions dropped, all seven regions saw increases last week. While areas covered by the Lynden and Nooksack Valley school districts saw their number of new cases per 100,000 residents over the past two weeks swell to more than 660, no region in the county had a rate lower than 250, according to the latest location data released by the Whatcom County Health Department on Tuesday, Oct. 26. Every region except Meridian saw its pandemic total number of cases increase by more than 3% last week.