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'Recovered positive' Covid-19 case at Tacoma immigrant detention center
At least one person at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma has tested positive for Covid-19. But local immigration officials are not counting this as a positive case.
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I provide spiritual care at a Seattle hospital. Here's what that means during the coronavirus pandemic
Elyse Fairweather is a spiritual care provider at University of Washington Medical Center. Part of her job is to provide end of life support and help guide people through some of their toughest times. Before the outbreak, her role often involved being a calming presence in the room. Now, that’s all changed.
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Face masks to be required inside King County businesses and crowded outdoor spaces
Residents of Seattle and King County will be required to wear face coverings over their noses and mouths while inside indoor businesses and public transit starting May 18. Masks must also be worn outside, in places where social distancing may not possible.
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Home with her husband, diagnosed with Alzheimer's
Voices of the pandemic features people in the Seattle area who are on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak
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Covid-19, tuberculosis, meningitis — it's all business as usual for this nurse of 50 years
Voices of the Pandemic features people in the Seattle area who are on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Fadel Erian, 82, former Hanford engineer
In the last official job of his engineering career, Fadel Erian helped develop a way to safely store nuclear waste at the Hanford site in eastern Washington. But his dream project tied back to his homeland in Egypt.
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When rent is due, landlords and tenants both worry now
During the pandemic, it’s not just renters who are having trouble paying the bills. Landlords are stressed too. And with a ban on evictions, they’ve lost a degree of control over their own finances.
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Two 'promising' Covid-19 treatments give Seattle-area patients and doctors hope
Very few medical professionals in the United States had seen a patient with Covid-19 when Raymond Sismaet showed up at his doctor’s office at the end of February complaining about a bad cough. On a return visit two days later he was sent by ambulance to the emergency room, "and from then it got real hazy for me,” Sismaet said.
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Friday politics: Who would want to be Washington's next governor?
With a pandemic, budget shortfalls, and unemployment among other issues, who would want to be Washington's next governor?
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Mariners may play this summer, but will you be able to go to the ballpark?
Empty venues with TV coverage a possibility
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Looking for some online arts and entertainment? Check out NASH, a new Northwest website.
The pandemic has forced all of us to change the way we go about our daily lives--everything from work to school to grocery shopping. Even our social lives have migrated to various digital platforms; we have Zoom happy hours, Google Hangout coffee dates, and we stream entertainment like never before.
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30K coronavirus tests a day could be the ticket to Washington’s freedom
More testing will allow the relax some of the social distancing measures, because we'll be able to identify people early and then keep them you know, isolated