COVID infection, hospitalization rates in Washington state begin to plateau — but numbers are still too high, officials say
Washington state’s COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rates have steadily declined for weeks, but that encouraging trend is starting to level off, hospital leaders said Monday. Hospitals reported a daily average of 1,007 COVID patients statewide Monday, compared with 1,013 a week ago, a decrease of less than 1%, said Taya Briley, executive vice president of the Washington State Hospital Association. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Bettina Hansen)
Threat of eviction returns to Washington renters with end to statewide moratorium
After nearly 20 months of protections, the threat of evictions has returned for renters across Washington state. The state’s eviction moratorium ended Monday, bringing an end to a protection which shielded renters from losing their homes during the pandemic. Though the extension ends for the state, cities of Burien, Kenmore and Seattle have pushed their eviction moratoriums into January 2022. Continue reading at KING 5.
Military’s base-by-base suicide numbers reveal startling statistics at some of the highest-profile installations
Some of the military’s highest-profile bases in 2020 had the greatest number of suicides, a troubling trend for the Pentagon as it contends with a growing number of troops dying not in combat but in their own homes and barracks. The Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune and the Army’s Fort Bragg, both in North Carolina, saw 21 troops die by suicide in 2020, according to Pentagon data obtained by USA TODAY. Fort Carson in Colorado had 18 such deaths in 2020. Continue reading at USA TODAY.
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