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COVID-19 news and updates

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency Saturday afternoon, soon after news broke that the first COVID-19 death in the U.S. was reported in King County and that other new confirmed cases were reported.

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Treating long COVID is rife with guesswork

Dozens of major medical centers have established specialized COVID-19 clinics around the country. A crowdsourced project counted more than 400. But there’s no standard protocol for treating long COVID. And experts are casting a wide net for treatments, with few ready for formal clinical trials.
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RSV, flu, COVID-19 and staffing shortages push some hospitals to capacity

Hospitals across the United States are overwhelmed. The combination of a swarm of respiratory illnesses (RSV, coronavirus, flu), staffing shortages and nursing home closures has sparked the state of distress visited upon the already overburdened health-care system. And experts believe the problem will deteriorate further in coming months.
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Spokane County’s loss of $1 million in COVID-19 rental assistance due to overlapping deadlines, officials say

The U.S. Treasury Department recently announced that Spokane County was one of several jurisdictions nationwide that had not timely spent an adequate amount of their $7.1 million in emergency rental assistance laid out in the 2021 stimulus package pushed by President Joe Biden. As a result, a little more than $1 million of that money, intended to be paid to renters outside the city of Spokane who experienced difficulty paying rent as a result of the pandemic and who make less than 80% of the area's median household income, will go to other jurisdictions. 
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