*Video and transcript: COVID-19 media briefing with Dr. Jeff Duchin [ [link removed] ],?*"Public Health Insider blog"
King County Health Officer Dr. Jeff Duchin held a media briefing on October 13, 2022, to share information and take questions about COVID-19, updated boosters for adults and children, and the local monkeypox outbreak.
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*Video: Responding to the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic [ [link removed] ],?*"Public Health on Facebook"
PHSKC partnered with community-based organizations throughout King County to respond to the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic.
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*Updated COVID-19 boosters for ages 5-11 [ [link removed] ],?*"Public Health on Twitter"
Our Bellevue-Eastgate and Auburn Mall COVID-19 vaccine clinics will begin offering FREE updated boosters for children ages 5-11 starting October 21st. No insurance or proof of immigration status needed. For more information, go to:?[link removed] [ [link removed] ].
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*Are you or a loved one dealing with Long COVID? Use these tips from Dr. Janna Friedly to help with recovery [ [link removed] ],?*"Washington State Dept. of Health"
For some people, COVID-19 infection is short-lived. After a few days or a week of feeling under the weather, they will generally feel ready to resume daily activities. Yet many others will experience long-term effects that linger for months (or years) after their infection. This is known as post-COVID conditions (PCC) or more commonly, long COVID.
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*NOTICE: This weekly COVID e-mail alert will be sunsetting at the end of this month on October 27th*
Starting in November, this email alert will be sent out on an as-needed basis.
You can continue the get the most up-to-date King County COVID information by visiting the following:
* COVID Data Dashboards [ [link removed] ], including?current COVID metrics [ [link removed] ], updated every Tuesday and Thursday?
* "Public Health Insider" [ [link removed] ]?blog (option to subscribe for e-mail updates)
* This Month in Public Health Newsletter (subscribe to e-mail updates through this link [ [link removed] ])
* On our social media accounts:?Twitter [ [link removed] ],?Facebook [ [link removed] ],?Instagram [ [link removed] ]
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*Current COVID-19 metrics [ [link removed] ]*?(Updated on Tuesdays and Thursdays)
*PLEASE NOTE: Thursday, October 13, 2022: Washington Dept. of Health and Public Health ? Seattle & King County data are currently affected by a security breach encountered by one of Washington's hospital organizations.?*This is causing data about cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and testing to be incomplete. These issues may continue for several weeks; we will update this note as information becomes available. COVID-19 data on?COVID-19 metrics page [ [link removed] ]?will be updated when these issues are resolved.
As a result if this stalled data, the following are numbers last reported on Tuesday, October 11th:
* *COVID-19 community level in King County: Low*
* 79.3 reported COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents over the past 7 days
* 2.2 hospitalizations due to COVID-19 per 100,000 residents over the past 7 days
* 4.5% of staffed inpatient beds occupied by COVID-19 patients over the past 7 days
* *519,958 total reported COVID-19 cases in King County*
* 256 daily average reported COVID-19 cases over the past 7 days
* *14,013 total hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in King County*
* 7 daily average hospitalizations due to COVID-19 over the past 7 days
* *3,217 total deaths due to COVID-19 in King County*
* 2 daily average deaths due to COVID-19 over the past 7 days
*All other COVID-19 dashboards are posted at?www.kingcounty.gov/covid/data [ [link removed] ]*
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*View this COVID-19 weekly email alert online [ [link removed] ]*
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