How did COVID-19 impact people living with disabilities?,?Public Health Insider blog

The COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to slow its spread brought a number of social, economic and overall health impacts for communities throughout King County. Public Health ? Seattle & King County, in partnership with the Disability Empowerment Center and Lifelong Aging And Disabilities Services, interviewed and listened to local people from disability communities to shed light on how these impacts were experienced by people living with disabilities in King County.

Experts say this year's flu season could be severe and back to pre-pandemic levels. Everyone is at risk ? even healthy children and adults,?Public Health on Twitter

Do you or a family member have a compromised immune system? The medication Evusheld can help protect from severe COVID-19 if taken before exposure,?Public Health Insider blog

Get your flu shot! 10 things to know about flu season,?Public Health Insider blog

With few COVID-19 restrictions, the flu will likely make a comeback this year and it's safe to get both the flu and COVID-19 vaccine ? or booster ? at the same time.

REMINDER: This weekly COVID e-mail alert will be sunsetting next week on October 27, 2022. Starting in November, the email alert will be sent 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:?Due to data reporting lags, case and hospitalization data are incomplete. Data shown below is the most recent complete data from October 14, 2022 and will be updated on?COVID-19 metrics page?when these issues are resolved.

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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