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Afternoon News with Tom Glasgow and Elisa Jaffe
U.S. sets record for coronavirus hospitalizations
"Country is seeing a record number of daily Corona virus cases in, local experts warn This is an urgent situation for Washington state. Almost Charlie Harder, reports the national surge picked up in recent weeks and is leading hospitals across the country to reach capacity. Same situation happening here. And if the bed's air filled with Corona virus patients and staff is overwhelmed. Others who may need urgent care may not get it. State health officer Dr Kathy Lo Fi says hard choices may need to be made soon. We do not want to take further actions that will further hurt our economy, but unfortunately No. If we continue on this trajectory at some point, we may need to be concerned. People let their guards down on Thanksgiving, and this goes from bad to worse, Charlie Harder come. O'Neill's
News, Traffic and Weather
Several states have closed schools due to coronavirus
"Sane amid the relentless spread of the corona virus the way the school and business closures across the country has injected huge amounts of chaos in the lives of millions of Americans there are more questions and answers are at playdates for kids okay how do you plan for the future with no idea what it all's health officials say one thing is certain it's going to get worse before it gets better Oregon schools close next week childcare regulator is considering whether to let some day care providers in fact taken more children than currently allowed Oregon has thirty confirmed cases of coronavirus Oregon schools will close tomorrow and remain closed until April first the death toll from new coronavirus here in our state jumps to forty Saturday when king county health officials reported three new facilities two of the new deaths were from the nursing home that's been the epicenter of the outbreak in Kirkland Washington state health officials are fighting the new coronavirus on two fronts containment while trying to ensure hospitals can care for people who become sick and to date we have not received the equipment they need Dr Kathy lo fi says that they're still working on slowing the spread but also trying to plan on how to expand beyond the walls of the state's current health care
News and Perspective with Taylor Van Cise
Seattle city leaders urge citizens to take steps to limit COVID-19 spread
"Now our top stories in the call twenty four seven news center as ABC mention seventy total cases eleven deaths in Washington state those are the latest numbers on the corona virus outbreak Washington state health officer Dr Kathy lo fi says not everyone who is sick actually has corona virus but everybody should be careful now is the time where everyone should be thinking that their illness could be covered nineteen and taking additional steps to create to protect other people in the community and other people in their household from the disease ten of the deaths have been reported in king county the eleventh in Snohomish county Grant County now reporting its first case the rest are in king and Snohomish counties of those seventy overall infections here in
News and Perspective with Taylor Van Cise
Seattle officials report on coronavirus and testing capacity
"And now I'd like to introduce Dr Kathy lo fi our state health officer and speaking just then was Patty Hayes director of public health Seattle king county well good afternoon everyone I'm going to just quickly give you a brief update on the state wide covered nineteen situation and then I'm going to also give you a brief update on testing capacity here in our state so as of midnight last night there had been a total of thirty nine individuals diagnosed with COPD at nineteen in our states this includes thirty one king county residents and eight Snohomish county residents that not that total number of thirty nine individuals also includes ten deaths nine of the individuals who have died our king county residents and one as a Snohomish county residents now I'm going to turn to talk to give you a brief update about testing capacity so we know that first of all we know that there is a huge demand out there for testing there are lots of people in our system in our state who are sick and they want to know whether they have covert nineteen and they want to get tested and I want to tell you that we are doing everything possible to quickly expand testing capacity here in our state so there are a few things that have happened of over the last twenty four hours first of all many of you may have heard that the federal government relax the criteria for who can be tested with the CDC covert nineteen asked say and this was great news and basically now anyone who has symptoms that may be consistent with covert nineteen and faction can be tested we are working really hard in Washington to increase the testing capacity as I have told you before on the public health laboratory in shoreline has the capacity now to test about a hundred people per day or two hundred specimens each individual generally submits to specimens and we are ramping up this capacity we have purchased new equipment we have two new pieces of equipment that should be delivered today or tomorrow and we have quite quite Drupal our laboratory staff that are doing testing in addition it's been a very high priority for us to work with our commercial lab partners to bring additional testing capacity as to bring it to adjust additional testing capacity to Washington we continue to work with the university of Washington virology lab and expect them to be ramping up their tasks at in the upcoming days in addition our state public health laboratory director called almost all all of the large commercial labs in our state yesterday and encourage them all to to to start using as a covert nineteen testing as say so we can have additional testing capacity and there's a lot of work that's also happening on the national level with the lard a lot of our very large national laboratories to encourage them to also begin testing for Copa ninety so currently we still do have a temporary capacity issue with with testing for covert nineteen here in our state but we do not expect this to last long I really feel like throughout you know the next few days we are going to see you know considerable increases in the number of patients that we can test here and I just want to reiterate what some of the previous speaker sad for individuals who have mild illness you don't always know you don't need to be tested this is important to remember we're posting some new guidance on our department of health website which is two pages of information around what individual should do if they have symptoms consistent with covert nineteen and these are a lot of the same messages that we have been repeating over and over in the news conferences they need to stay home from work they need to keep a distance from other people in the household so they don't infect other people and their households and they you know they need to rest and take care of themselves
News, Traffic and Weather
Washington state health officials are preparing for possible coronavirus spread
"State health officers say they'll be able to test for coronavirus right here in Washington come was Ryan Harris has more from the state health lab in shoreline Washington chief health officer Dr Kathy lo fi says we're in the containment phase which means keeping corona virus out of Washington and keeping it from spreading here state epidemiologist scout Lindquist says if a health care provider find someone who's sick and fits the criteria for a potential case stocks will call us or the local health departments and tell us about a patient that's under investigation and then we make arrangements for that sample to get here and then moving to run today and will work six days a week Lindquist says those two runs a day can get up to twenty six people tested with results he describes as in by nine out by five so within hours linguist was also asked to someone with no symptoms who has corona virus can spread it and he says he just doesn't know yet but they're learning quickly and hope to have a better answer soon Ryan Harris
Noon Report with Rick Van Cise
Issaquah High School closed Thursday after possible measles exposure
"Center, five confirmed cases of measles in just the last five days. That's what local health officials are dealing with komo's Corwin Hake reports. The growing threat forced the closure of king county's largest high school. Most of is high schools twenty three hundred students are getting a day off today. The school is closed after learning a teacher, there is the latest of king county's three confirmed cases of measles. Since the weekend to other recent confirmed cases are in Pierce and Snohomish counties, state, health officer, Dr Kathy lo fi says all of those infected spent time at sea-tac airport. To be a commonality among the cases. One day closure of his equality allows health officials to verify staff, immunization records some students are on campus to take advantage. Placement tests conducted by staff whose immunization is already verified, if you're not made it against measles, or if you're not sure, health officials say you should go ahead and get the shot. They say the vaccine is affected and