LIVE from the Seattle Times — Coronavirus daily news update, Feb. 2 — The latest count of COVID-19 cases in Washington totals 1,339,743 infections (14-day average of cases per day: 17,629) and 10,776 deaths.
From the News Tribune — COVID death count rises above 60 in one week in Pierce County as Omicron wave starts to recede
EDITOR’S NOTE — More than 60 people lost in one week in one county. Let’s never become numb to the daily toll this pandemic continues to take on Washington families. Get vaccinated. Get boosted.
The Stand (Jan. 14) — No one is disposable (by Sarah Tucker)
From the NY Times — — Two years into the pandemic, the coronavirus is killing Americans at far higher rates than people in other wealthy nations, a sobering distinction to bear as the country charts a course through the next stages of the pandemic. The ballooning death toll has defied the hopes of many Americans that the less severe Omicron variant would spare the United States the pain of past waves. Deaths have now surpassed the worst days of the autumn surge of the Delta variant, and are more than two-thirds as high as the record tolls of last winter, when vaccines were largely unavailable.
From Reuters — WHO: Omicron subvariant BA.2 likely to have same severity as ‘original’
From the Spokesman-Review — National Guard members assist at Providence Sacred Heart as COVID-19 hospitalizations reach record levels
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