Coronavirus News
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| ‘Mind boggling’: Last week’s WA jobless claims set record | The number of people seeking unemployment benefits in Washington set a new record last week, with tens of thousands more people in the state filing new claims as non-essential businesses remain closed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Numbers released Thursday by the state… |
2020-04-03 | |
| Resources for Local Businesses to Help Task Force Assess Economic Impacts Stemming From COVID-19 Pandemic | Under Whatcom Unified Command’s direction, the Economic Impact Task Force, led by Don Goldberg, has compiled five tools/resources for local businesses to utilize so that our team and partners can begin to assess the extent of the economic impacts stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak. |
2020-04-03 | |
| WWU moves online, but hundreds remain on campus amid coronavirus threat | Another Whatcom County resident who tested positive for COVID-19 has died, according to information released Thursday, April 2, by the Whatcom County Health Department. An additional 31 positive tests for the new coronavirus were also reported. That brings the total number of Whatcom… |
2020-04-03 | |
| Inslee updates list of essential businesses, workers for stay-home order to stem spread of coronavirus | Gov. Jay Inslee has updated the list of businesses considered essential under Washington’s emergency stay-home order intended to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. In a memo Tuesday evening, Inslee said automotive repair shops are considered essential, as are nannies taking care of… |
2020-04-02 | |
| Boeing offers buyouts to cut workforce for “different-sized” market after coronavirus pandemic | With the airline business staggered by the coronavirus pandemic, Boeing Commercial Airplanes boss Stan Deal told employees Thursday the company must reduce its workforce “to ensure our business is more closely aligned to the realities of a different-sized commercial market once the recovery… |
2020-04-02 | |
| Unemployment claims soar for second straight week in Whatcom, Washington state | With more businesses adhering to the coronavirus restrictions, unemployment claims continue to soar across Whatcom County and Washington state. In Whatcom County, 6,268 people filed unemployment claims for the week ending March 28, according to new data from the … |
2020-04-02 | |
| ‘We hope it doesn’t get there,’ but Bellingham hospital planning for coronavirus surge | Planning and preparation at Bellingham’s St. Joseph hospital continues in earnest for a potential surge in COVID-19 cases that hospitals around the world have seen during the coronavirus pandemic, PeaceHealth officials say. The officials spoke to The Bellingham Herald Saturday, March 28… |
2020-03-31 | |
| Hospitalizations for novel coronavirus-like illness declined last week in Washington, offering a glimmer of hope | Hospitalizations for patients with symptoms of COVID-19-like illnesses in Washington declined last week by more than 20%, a hopeful sign for the region and a nation gripped by the coronavirus pandemic. The state Department of Health (DOH) survey, covering the seven-day period that ended… |
2020-03-31 | |
| The Big Transition | The University of Washington was one of the first U.S. institutions to move online amid the pandemic. Here's how faculty say the transition is going. |
2020-03-31 | |
| Trump extends virus guidelines, braces U.S. for big death toll | Bracing the nation for a coronavirus death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, President Donald Trump extended restrictive social distancing guidelines through April, bowing to public health experts who presented him with even more dire projections for the expanding coronavirus pandemic.… |
2020-03-30 |