A disproportionate number of people in jails and prisons have chronic medical or behavioral health conditions. When people leave jail, it’s a unique moment to connect them to services in the community that they may not have known about before. Maliha, a social worker in the Jail Health Release Program, shares about what she does to help people with a range of health conditions as they transition out of incarceration.
There are a few scenarios when someone may be seeking a COVID-19 test. Read more about what test to use in each case and information on what to do if you can’t access a test.
Families want to know more about the vaccine for children, and of course, kids have their own questions. We sat down with Dr. Mark Del Beccaro, a pediatrician and Public Health’s Strategic Lead for COVID-19 vaccination, to help answer some of the questions from local kids and families.
Data on cases, hospitalizations and vaccine coverage focused on youth ages 0-17 in King County is now available. This dashboard helps us look at how cases in youth compare to those of adults over time.
More than 300,000 young people are not yet eligible to be vaccinated, and children have returned to in-person schooling this fall. Public Health—Seattle & King County is compiling data on COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations among youth. The slides below offer an early snapshot of some of the key take-aways from our initial analysis.
