West Seattle Weblog… | CORONAVIRUS: Monday 5/17/2021 roundup

Our nightly round-up of local information on the pandemic:

LATEST KING COUNTY NUMBERS AND A DASHBOARD CHANGE: First an announcement:

Public Health – Seattle & King County adds “Likely Cases” to our COVID-19 data dashboards. This has little impact on the number of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths on any of our dashboards. This now includes people who have had a positive PCR test or a positive antigen (rapid test).

So here are the totals for tonight from the Seattle-King County Public Health daily summary:

* 107,593 people tested positive, 131 more than yesterday (this includes 4,474 chances)

* 1,559 people have died unchanged since Saturday

* 6,059 people were hospitalized, 18 more than yesterday

* 1,069,317 people tested, 1,151 more than yesterday (note that the dashboard makes the difference that they are tested people PCR)

A week ago this was 101,274 / 1,542 / 5,962 / 1,059,270.

STATE NUMBERS: See them here.

WORLDWIDE FIGURES: 163.4 million cases, 3,386,000 deaths – 586,000 in the US See the other stats – nation by nation – here.

Vaccination clinic for students: There is one tomorrow West Seattle High School.

GROWTH STATISTICS: In King County, 72.4 percent of those 16 and over had at least one dose; 56.1 percent are fully vaccinated. West Seattle remains the most vaccinated area code 98136 – 84.5 percent of people 16 and older had at least one dose.

POST-PANDEMIC PERMANENCE? Last week this was a suggestion – to extend the pavement / roadside shopping and eating permission until next year and then possibly make the program permanent. Now it is official.

NEED FOOD? The next Grocery line for groceries It will be distributed on Friday (May 21) at 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 815 p. 96

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