Coronavirus News
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| US begins offering 1B free COVID tests, but many more needed | For the first time, people across the U.S. can log on to a government website and order free, at-home COVID-19 tests. But the White House push may do little to ease the… |
2022-01-19 | |
| Whatcom County school districts fighting battle with COVID to keep students in classrooms | Like many other school districts around the Whatcom County, the state and the nation, Bellingham Public Schools is fighting a battle to keep its doors open and students in its classrooms against escalating COVID-19 case numbers spurred by the omicron variant. “We’re going to continue to do… |
2022-01-18 | |
| Conditions ‘strained,’ but Bellingham hospital meeting demand with record 79 COVID patients | St. Joseph’s hospital in Bellingham reported that it treated a pandemic record 79 patients for symptoms related to COVID-19 on Tuesday, Jan. 18. That was up nine patients from the day-old pandemic record 70 patients it treated a day earlier on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and up more than 43% from… |
2022-01-18 | |
| White House soft-launches COVID-19 test request website | The Biden administration on Tuesday quietly launched its website for Americans to request free at-home COVID-19 tests, a day before the site was scheduled to officially go online. The website, COVIDTests… |
2022-01-18 | |
| US faces wave of omicron deaths in coming weeks, models say | The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by the time the wave subsides in mid-March. The seven-day rolling average for daily new COVID-19 deaths… |
2022-01-18 | |
| COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases on the rise amid unprecedented surge, WA says | COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases have increased in Washington state, the Department of Health says, but vaccines continue to provide protection. Breakthrough cases recently increased 43%, according to a Thursday news release. The state counts a breakthrough case if a person tests positive for… |
2022-01-14 | |
| Whatcom passes 25,000 COVID cases in pandemic, adds 24 new hospitalizations and 2 deaths | Whatcom County surpassed 25,000 total COVID-19 cases during the pandemic Thursday, as the state reported 456 new cases along with 24 new hospitalizations and two more deaths related to COVID. The 456 cases reported Thursday, Jan. 13, on the Washington State Department of Health COVID-19… |
2022-01-14 | |
| You'll be able to order free at-home COVID test kits starting on Wednesday | The Biden administration announced Friday that Americans can begin ordering free at-home COVID-19 tests starting January 19th. Orders for up to four tests per household can be placed using a website, COVIDTests.gov. The administration will… |
2022-01-14 | |
| Inslee calls out National Guard to help at overtaxed hospitals, testing sites | Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday announced that members of the Washington National Guard will help staff hospitals and testing sites across the state, as the health care system struggles with surging COVID-19 caseloads. Guard members will be sent to hospitals in Everett, Spokane, Wenatchee… |
2022-01-14 | |
| Whatcom adds 560 COVID cases, 26 hospitalizations, 2 deaths, as Base Camp sees outbreak | With high COVID-19 case counts continuing to roll in during a January surge, Whatcom County is fast approaching its 25,000th COVID-19 case of the pandemic. The county saw another big tally on the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard Wednesday, Jan. 12, as 560 new cases… |
2022-01-13 |