Whatcom may be seeing post-Thanksgiving COVID increase, as state reports 84 new cases

Whatcom County may be beginning to see the effects of the Thanksgiving holiday on its COVID-19 case counts, as the state reported 84 new confirmed cases in the county on Tuesday, Nov. 7. Whatcom County now has had 17,297 confirmed COVID cases in the pandemic, according to the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard. Though epidemiological data remains incomplete beyond Nov. 29 and is likely to change as more information becomes available, the state’s epidemiological curves show Whatcom County averaged 59.9 new confirmed cases per day during the week after Thanksgiving (Nov. 28 to Dec. 4), The Bellingham Herald’s data analysis found. That included more than 75 confirmed cases per day from Nov. 29 through Dec. 1.