Joint statement on regional healthcare facilities’ masking requirement

March 24, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

Public Health – Seattle & King County fully supports the decision by many healthcare organizations in our region to require masking in their facilities to decrease the ongoing risk of COVID-19.

Video & transcript: COVID-19 media briefing

March 9, 2023.Reading time 2 minutes.

Dr. Eric Chow, Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology for Public Health – Seattle & King County, held a media briefing on March 8, 2023, to share information and take questions about where we are in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Where we’re at with COVID-19: A conversation with Dr. Jeff Duchin

March 3, 2023.Reading time 16 minutes.

Four adults, ages ranging from 30s to 70s, rolling up their sleeves to show band aids from where they got vaccinated.

Compared to earlier in the pandemic, we’re in a much better place with COVID-19, but it hasn’t gone away. We asked our Health Officer, Dr. Jeff Duchin, to share his thoughts on COVID-19 cases, vaccination, masking, and outlook in King County.

Public Health reflects on lessons learned from COVID-19 response in summary report

December 30, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

Public Health – Seattle & King County has developed an After-Action Report summarizing key information from the first two years (January 2020 – January 2022) of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

Help reduce the spread of COVID-19 by improving indoor air this fall and winter

December 13, 2022.Reading time 11 minutes.

By now you may have heard that we’re experiencing high cases of flu and RSV (a respiratory disease) (in-language resources available) this fall, with young children being hospitalized. With cold weather, we spend more time inside. This increases the potential for another surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the coming months.

Diseases like RSV, the flu, and COVID-19 are airborne and spread easily indoors. With that in mind, it’s important to pay attention to indoor air quality.

Tri-demic? Time to increase protections against surging respiratory viruses

November 8, 2022.Reading time 16 minutes.

Young girl with thermometer in her mouth. Young girl covering her cough. Adult man blowing his nose.

We’ve been hearing talk of a potential triple threat of viruses or a “tri-demic” this winter – a rise in multiple types of respiratory viruses. We sat down with Dr. Eric Chow, who leads our Communicable Disease and Epidemiology Section, to learn more about what’s happening and what we can do to stay safer.