CORONAVIRUS: Sunday 4/26 roundup

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Another day without big headlines in the virus crisis – here’s our nightly roundup:

NEWEST KING COUNTY NUMBERS: The daily update from the Seattle-King County Public Health data dashboard:

*5,912 people have tested positive, up 101 from yesterday

*407 people have died, up 8 from yesterday

One week ago, those totals were 5,172 and 346.

STATEWIDE NUMBERS: Find them here.

WORLDWIDE NUMBERS: Find them here.

MORE COVID-19 SYMPTOMS: From the daily bulletin sent by the state Health Department:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its official list of symptoms that people experience when they get sick from the coronavirus. The symptoms added are: chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, and new loss of taste or smell. This is in addition to the previous official symptoms: fever, cough, and shortness or breath. These symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to the virus.

WILL STAY-HOME ORDER BE EXTENDED? Governor Inslee‘s statewide stay-home order is currently set to expire May 4th, one week from tomorrow. No word yet if he’s planning any announcement or media briefing tomorrow, but if he does, we’ll carry the livestream.

PAYCHECK PROTECTION PROGRAM REOPENS: The Small Business Administration will resume taking applications for these loans at 7:30 am our time tomorrow.

THOUGHT THE ALKI CROWDING WAS BAD? Southern California is having a heat wave, and many of their beaches are supposed to be closed, but (updated) at one that wasn’t …

RIGHT NOW: This is the scene from #Air7HD in Newport Beach, CA as the #COVID19 death toll surges in Southern California @ABC7 #LosAngeles pic.twitter.com/Nmta8hU69H

— Chris Cristi (@abc7chriscristi) April 24, 2020

(Here are the Orange County stats, by the way.)

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS: Worried about how kids are doing without being able to go to school? Meet a West Seattle second-grader who’s spending some of her time doing something we can appreciate … reporting neighborhood news.

SIGN SIGHTING: For the second consecutive Sunday night, we wrap up the roundup with an Upper Morgan sighting sent by Tamsen Spengler (thank you!)

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Lin April 26, 2020 (10:26 pm)

Is there a rate of transmission chart for washington? I was watching Gov Cuomo and he talked about rate of transmission for NY is now 0.8. I’m wondering what it is for our state.

WSB April 26, 2020 (10:51 pm)

Whatever the state has available, you should be able to find it on the state site we link every night:
https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/Coronavirus
DEF April 26, 2020 (11:15 pm)

Interesting estimates (from non-experts) who have put some thought and effort in, at: https://rt.live/May be hard to calculate Rt without a higher level of testing, but at least the trend lines ought to be meaningful. But here WA’s is now said to be slightly better than NY. I’ve seen other estimates elsewhere (to understand impact of distancing) but not as an ongoing data stream.
- Lin April 27, 2020 (12:15 am)
  
  Exactly what I’m looking for. Thank you.

22blades April 27, 2020 (7:11 am)

While LA is bad, we’re slipping too. We’ve gone from a steady “B” to now “C” in Social Distancing & we haven’t even opened back up. https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard?view=state&fips=53

Lin April 27, 2020 (9:55 am)

That’s unfortunate. Wonder if it was because of the good weather in the last two weeks.

Melissa April 27, 2020 (1:41 pm)

It’s so disappointing. Kid and I went to Alki on Sunday for a walk with the dog. It was my first excursion out of Arbor Heights for exercise and probably my last for a while. People were walking far closer to us than the needed to, despite my attempts to move us out of their paths. Also, fewer than 50% of people wore masks and many of those without masks were couples with kids in strollers. Terrifying and saddening.

newnative April 27, 2020 (2:30 pm)

Yeah, when people DRIVE from other neighborhoods to Alki, it gets crowded. Funny how that works.
- Melissa April 27, 2020 (9:00 pm)
  
  You must have missed the part where I said that this was my first walk outside of my neighborhood since all of this started, otherwise why would you be so snarky? Also, please consider responding with compassion and kindness — perhaps a suggestion — instead of like this. People, myself included, are more likely to take what you say into consideration.

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