Whatcom announces new coronavirus dashboard and stops releasing independent data

The Whatcom County Health Department apparently has stopped releasing coronavirus data that is independent from COVID-19 data the Washington State Department of Health is releasing for the county.

The county health department in a press release Wednesday, June 1, announced that it has launched a new, interactive COVID-19 dashboard, that it says displays new metrics and should allow for better comparisons to other counties. The new dashboard still provides the same information that was previously available on the county’s page, including epidemiological curves and case counts, but in an interactive format and with new daily numbers.