Pepcid as a virus remedy? Trump admin's $21M gamble fizzled

The Trump Administration pushed through a $21 million contract to study whether the active ingredient in Pepcid is an effective treatment for Covid-19.

Virus sends jobless claims up for first time since March
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Last week?s pace of unemployment applications ? the 18th straight time it?s topped 1 million ? was up from 1.3 million the previous week.

Why are coins hard to find during the pandemic?

The Federal Reserve has seen a significant decline of coins in circulation because people are not spending them as regularly at businesses, many of which are either temporarily closed or not accepting cash.

Seattle, other King County school districts to resume full-time remote learning in the fall

At least eight public school districts in King County - including Seattle Public Schools - will resume full-time remote learning when school starts, citing public health data that shows "it is not safe to reopen schools in person at this time."

US secures 100 million doses of Pfizer, BioNTech experimental coronavirus vaccine

The U.S. government has reached a $1.95 billion deal with Pfizer and BioNTech for 100 million doses of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine once it obtains Food and Drug Administration approval.

New COVID-19 antibody study aims to reveal prevalence of virus

It’s been six months since the onset of pandemic drastically changed life around Puget Sound, and people looking to get tested for the virus continue to battle obstacles.

Trump says virus in US will get worse before it gets better

President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that the “nasty horrible’” coronavirus will get worse in the U.S. before it gets better, but he also tried to paint a rosy picture of efforts with governors to conquer the disease that has claimed more than 140,000 American lives in just five months.

Nearly 800 additional coronavirus cases in Washington

Nearly 800 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Washington state, bringing the state total number of cases to 47,743.

UW Medicine developing new coronavirus vaccine

While the pandemic spreads across our country and infection rates continue to climb in Washington State, there is good news in the race to develop a vaccine.

United says it will maximize in-flight air ventilation system to help mitigate airborne COVID-19 spread

United Airlines announced on Monday that it will maximize the air flow volume of its aircraft particulate filtration systems during the boarding and deplaning processes in an attempt to minimize the spread of COVID-19 aboard its flights. 

UK coronavirus vaccine prompts immune response in early test

Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot.