As More Migrants Arrive, U.S. Expands Efforts To Identify And Admit Most Vulnerable More migrants are granted humanitarian exceptions to a pandemic public health order that effectively closed the Southern border. U.S. officials are working with NGOs to identify the most vulnerable.
KUOW Newsroom Surprising day For WA counties on the verge of a phase rollback ‘The governor seems to be gambling that in two weeks the situation will look pretty different than it does today.’
KUOW Newsroom King County braces for reopening rollbacks despite vaccination progress Washington state is in a fourth wave of Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. For King County and other counties around the state, that is likely to result in a return of tighter restrictions.
KUOW Newsroom Pandemic is 'substantial, but holding steady' in King County ‘One of our big limiting factors in the state is supply. It's still not meeting demand, and it's actually gone down.’
Why South Africa Banned Booze — And What Happened Next The hope was that if people weren't out drinking, they wouldn't be spreading the coronavirus. There were unforeseen benefits to the ban, which ended last month — and negative impacts as well.
Trying To Assess COVID's Impact On Arab-American Communities Is Complicated It's hard to track the rate of COVID-19 infections among Arab Americans, who are often counted as white on survey forms without a separate checkbox for Middle Eastern or North African origins.
How Is Racism A Health Threat? Consider The Phrase 'So-Called Race' Epidemiologist Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones says race is merely "the social interpretation of how we look." This social reality is important because different racial groups have different health outcomes.
KUOW Newsroom Vaccination eligibility will soon expand big time. Will Washington state have a supply issue? ‘If you are not eligible now, but becoming eligible on Wednesday, you can actually start looking for an appointment as long as it's for a date after you become eligible.’
Biden To Extend Order Limiting Pandemic Evictions On his first day in office, the president plans to sign an executive order extending the CDC's moratorium on evictions. Housing advocates say the CDC rule needs to be strengthened.
Mask Up! How Public Health Messages Collide With Facebook's Political Ads Ban Nearly two months after Election Day, Facebook still prohibits political ads. The ban is frustrating some elected leaders who say it makes it harder to get out information about the pandemic.
