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In early March 2020, coronavirus cases within Washington state grew along with the rest of the country. Washington State Department of Health officials requested, from the federal government's Strategic National Stockpile (the U.S. government's repository of drugs, vaccines and equipment to be used in major public health emergencies), 233,000 respirators and 200,000 surgical masks.
With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center was one of the first hospitals to receive COVID-19 patients due to its Special Pathogens Unit. [8] The unit was established in 2015 as one of 10 regional treatment facilities for the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center ...
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February 26: First known U.S. death from COVID-19 occurs in Kirkland, part of an outbreak at a nursing home. [2] February 29: COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state) officially begins when the first cases of COVID-19 in the United States are reported, and a state of emergency is declared by Governor Inslee; March–October: 2020 Washington ...
Oct. 1—The Spokane Regional Health District is facing a $3.5 million deficit in the upcoming 2022 budget. Millwood Mayor Kevin Freeman, the vice chairman of the Board of Health, presented the ...
Washington made the first announcement of a death from the disease in the U.S. on February 29 and later announced that two deaths there on February 26 were also due to COVID-19. Until mid-March, Washington had the highest absolute number of confirmed cases and the highest number per capita of any state in the country, [1] until it was surpassed ...
Feb. 20—A Spokane County resident has tested positive for measles, spurring health officials to warn residents of possible sites of exposure to the highly contagious virus. According to a news ...
Benton County EOC, Richland [a] Franklin County EOC, Port of Pasco [b] Grays Harbor County Emergency Coordination Center, Montesano [6] [c] King County EOC, Renton [7] Pacific County EOC, South Bend [8] [9] [d] Snohomish County EOC, Everett [e] Spokane Emergency Coordination Center, Spokane [12] Tacoma-Pierce County EOC, Tacoma [13] Walla Walla ...