It’s not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US
Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline. One big unknown? “We don’t know how high that mountain’s gonna grow,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. No one expects a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the contagious omicron version of the coronavirus ripped through the population. Continue reading at The Associated Press. (David Zalubowski)
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The only problem with “walk to school day” in Coupeville, Island County, on Whidbey Island, is that not every student has a path to walk. “There are some routes where kids live where they’re walking on the street or there’s no bike lane,” said Donna Keeler, Coupeville’s planning director. This is just the sort of problem the state’s “active transportation” grants are meant to address — a pot of money for communities to build out bike and pedestrian projects and safe routes to school. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Ellen M. Banner)
Lawmakers provided $800M for homeless programs, but advocates say there’s more to be done
For multiple years, the Washington legislature has attempted to come up with new programs to help people in the state who are experiencing homelessness. This year’s investments, totaling more than $800 million, are the most ever allocated in a session. While several organizations that worked on legislation this year think the state is on the right path, they still believe more can be done to move Washington forward. Data from the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness shows that 22,923 people in the state were experiencing homelessness as of January 2020. Continue reading at The Olympian.
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