Coronavirus

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office says the city and its partners will have more than 52,000 COVID-19 vaccinations to administer next week in the largest single-week vaccine allocation received to date.

As concerns grow for the possible beginning stage of a fourth surge in positive COVID-19 cases, Washington state health leaders are also growing worried about demand lessening for the vaccine.

The governor pointed to data showing rising cases, hospitalizations and the spread of virus variants, including the more contagious variant first detected in Britain.

Concerns are coming from officials with Public Health - Seattle and King County over what they call “unusual COVID testing operations.”

COVID-19 hospitalizations among older Americans have plunged more than 70% since the start of the year, and deaths among them appear to have tumbled as well, dramatic evidence the vaccination campaign is working.

Oregon health officials said Thursday that federal officials are investigating the death of a woman in her 50s who developed a rare blood clot and low platelets within two weeks of receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against COVID-19.

Some hotel and motel owners in Washington state say they are worried about foreclosures.

Lewis & Clark College and Seattle University announced that they will require proof of COVID-19 vaccinations for all students this fall.

Pierce County is opening a mass vaccination site at the Tacoma Dome for six weeks starting April 27.

Snohomish County health officials say they are seeing a lot of COVID-19 outbreaks involving kids' sports teams and officials say these cases are putting the entire county at risk of going backward in Phases.

As Pierce County only recently fell back into Phase 2, a combination of rising infections and perception that some businesses are avoiding health guidelines has led some to worry a rollback to Phase 1 might be all but inevitable.

We are nearly 14 months into the pandemic, which has challenged all of us in ways we never imagined. For the medical workers treating COVID-19 patients, and losing some of them, it has been a grueling and emotional journey. 

Washington state is upping its COVID-19 vaccine ambitions as cases increase, worrying variants spread and vaccine demand softens in some areas, State Health Secretary Dr. Umair Shah said Wednesday.

Many mass vaccination events in Washington state have been held and continue to administer COVID-19 vaccines, but none tailored to just high school students.

Public health officials in Snohomish County warned Tuesday that the county likely will move back to Phase 2 of the state's pandemic reopening plan on May 2 — and could even move back two phases if case counts and hospitalizations continue rising at their current rate.