Video and transcript: COVID-19 media briefing with Dr. Jeff Duchin,?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.

Video: Responding to the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic,?Public Health on Facebook

PHSKC partnered with community-based organizations throughout King County to respond to the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic.

Updated COVID-19 boosters for ages 5-11,?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:?https://kingcounty.gov/vaccine.

Are you or a loved one dealing with Long COVID? Use these tips from Dr. Janna Friedly to help with recovery,?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.

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:

Current COVID-19 metrics?(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?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:

All other COVID-19 dashboards are posted at?www.kingcounty.gov/covid/data

View this COVID-19 weekly email alert online

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