The Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention is taking emergency actions to ensure the safety of everyone at King County correctional facilities, based on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as Public Health – Seattle & King County. https://kingcounty.gov/depts/jails/covid-updates.aspx

Updated weekly Public Health — Seattle & King County is monitoring changes in key economic, social, and other health indicators resulting from strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19. The metrics below were selected based on studies from previous outbreaks, which have linked strategies such as social distancing, school closures, and business closures to specific outcomes. Individual indicators in the grid below are updated daily, weekly, or monthly, depending on the source of data. Additional data will be added over time.

Link to COVID-19 Tableau Dashboard maintained by King County's Public Health Department (see dashboard for additional metadata)

Updated daily, Monday - Friday This dashboard provides a snapshot of several useful indicators, or measures, related to COVID-19 activity in our community and its impact on our health and our hospitals. These indicators, along with many other data, are key considerations for reviewing current restrictions on activity, recommendations and precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The indicators help determine if current actions are adequate, need to be strengthened, or might be carefully relaxed.

Background Rural U.S. communities are at risk from COVID-19 due to advanced age and limited access to acute care. Recognizing this, the Vashon Medical Reserve Corps (VMRC) in King County, Washington, implemented an all-volunteer, community-based COVID-19 response program.  This program integrated public engagement, SARS-CoV-2 testing, contact tracing, vaccination, and material community support, and was associated with the lowest cumulative COVID-19 case rate in King County. This study aimed to investigate the contributions of demographics, geography and public health interventions to Vashon’s low COVID-19 rates. Methods This observational cross-sectional study compares cumulative COVID-19 rates and success of public health interventions from February 2020 through November 2021 for Vashon Island with King County (including metropolitan Seattle) and Whidbey Island, located ~50 km north of Vashon. To evaluate the role of demography, we developed multiple linear regression models of COVID-...

Analysis of ‘King County jail COVID-19 statistics’ provided by Analyst-2 (analyst-2.ai), based on source dataset retrieved from https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/3d1e4928-49bd-4290-ad68-2ea115633c08 on 27 January 2022.

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The Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention is taking emergency actions to ensure the safety of everyone at King County correctional facilities, based on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as Public Health – Seattle & King County. https://kingcounty.gov/depts/jails/covid-updates.aspx

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Updated weekly on Mondays The dashboard below shows the impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color compared to whites in King County, Washington.

The locations on this map provide COVID-19 testing for anyone who is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms or has been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19. Many of the locations are free and do not require insurance.

For more information please call the King County COVID-19 Call Center (open 7 days a week, 8 AM – 7 PM), at 206-477-3977. You can ask for an interpreter by saying the language you need.

Testing sites may change and new ones may open. This list is not a complete list of all testing locations. It may not include the most up-to-date locations or contact information.

Updated every Thursday People experiencing homelessness are at risk for infection through community spread of COVID-19. The data below describes impacts of COVID-19 on individuals who are experiencing homelessness, whether they are able to access a congregate shelter or unsheltered (sleeping outside or in places not meant for human habitation).

For COVID-19 investigation purposes, people experiencing homelessness are defined as those who have lived on the streets or stayed in a shelter, vehicle, abandoned building, encampment, tiny house village/tent city, or supportive housing program (transitional or permanent supportive) at any time during the 12 months prior to COVID-19 testing, without evidence that they were otherwise permanently housed. Public Health, the Department of Community and Human Services, homeless service providers, healthcare providers, and the City of Seattle have partnered for increased testing in this community.

Updated daily between 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Data are updated daily in the early afternoon and reflect laboratory results reported to the Washington State Department of Health as of midnight the day before. Data for previous dates will be updated as new results are entered, interviews are conducted, and data errors are corrected.

Many people test positive but do not require hospitalization. The counts of positive cases do not necessarily indicate levels of demand at local hospitals.

Reporting of test results to the Washington State Department of Health may be delayed by several days and will be updated when data are available. Only positive or negative test results are reflected in the counts and exclude tests where results are pending, inconclusive or were not performed.

The greater Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) study is a response to the novel coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). Since March 23rd, 2020, SCAN has worked in collaboration with Public Health Seattle & King County to deliver and collect at-home COVID-19 tests. The SCAN study is focused on testing people who are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19, and is working to increase testing in underrepresented communities and populations. The SCAN dashboard provides geographic and demographic information from King County about who is ordering a test kit (individuals, contacts and groups) and may differ from the testing data which includes all final results (positive, negative and inconclusive). Reported positives and positivity rate are a combination of general SCAN enrollment and contact testing results, and are not representative of overall population frequency. There was a pause in testing from May 13th through June 9th, during which time SCAN worked with the FDA to update procedures and certifications. Data is updated daily, subject to change and may vary across other technical reports due to the specific analyses being performed.

Public Health — Seattle & King County is monitoring changes in key economic, social, and other health indicators resulting from strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19.

This dashboard shows emergency department visits and hospitalizations for COVID-like illness and pneumonia at King County healthcare facilities.

Public Health — Seattle & King County is monitoring changes in key economic, social, and other health indicators resulting from strategies to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Locally and across the United States, social and economic inequities have placed certain communities at higher risk of COVID-19. Public Health - Seattle & King County developed a social and economic risk index (SERI) to examine social and economic disparities in COVID-19 outcomes. This dashboard shows the index at census tract-level for King County. Higher scores on SERI indicate communities with higher levels of social and economic risk, and lower scores indicate lower levels of risk.

Case investigation and contact tracing are essential strategies for limiting the spread of COVID-19, along with face coverings, social distancing, handwashing and testing. Public Health's Case Investigation and Contact Tracing Team calls King County residents who have recently tested positive for COVID-19 ("cases"). And they call people who were exposed to COVID-19 ("contacts"). The phone calls include an explanation of isolation and quarantine guidelines, how to get testing and support services, and collecting information that helps Public Health's infection control programs.

Link to Covid-19 Vulnerable Communities Data Tool (see dashboard for additional metadata)

Changes in Transportation Patterns Follow Community Mitigation Policies in King County, WA

Demographics of King County, Vashon Island, and Island County communities.

Case investigation and contact tracing on Vashon, South Whidbey and in King County.