What pandemic death data reveal about health in King County now

September 5, 2024.Reading time 15 minutes.

Understanding data about deaths can shed light on what’s happening in our communities in terms of health. Public Health – Seattle & King County is using data from the COVID-19 pandemic to help set priorities moving forward.

Navigators bring the personal touch to the COVID-19 response

October 3, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

A collage showing some of the COVID-19 response work that Public Health's community navigators have been involved in. It includes a person wearing a mask and a person getting a vaccine.

Meet the community navigators: a group of trusted community leaders, organizers and health workers collaborating with Public Health to help us stay true to our equity goals.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People: An Invisible Crisis Coming to the Surface

September 19, 2022.Reading time 7 minutes.

Ribbon skirts made by Marita Growing Thunder on display at a hall of the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Center.

For years, Indigenous communities have been sounding the alarm about missing and murdered Indigenous women and people in their communities. It results from harmful responses and policies at multiple government levels that ignore Indigenous people’s lived experiences across the U.S. and Washington state.

Making meaning of the COVID-19 race and ethnicity data: A conversation with our Health Officer and our Equity Director

May 1, 2020.Reading time 12 minutes.

The impacts of COVID-19 are disproportionately impacting communities of color. A conversation with our Health Officer and Equity Officer provide insight.

How we are monitoring COVID-19 preliminary data by race, ethnicity

April 10, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

Public Health – Seattle & King County is releasing preliminary data of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and confirmed deaths by race/ethnicity. This preliminary data shows COVID-related deaths and hospitalizations are impacting people of all races and ethnicities. Additional data is needed to be able to draw conclusions about the impact COVID-19 is having across racial/ethnic groups in King County.

Taking a “place and race” approach to advancing community health in south Seattle & south King County

April 5, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

As King County’s population and housing costs have risen steeply, many people of color and lower income families in King County have migrated to south Seattle and south King County, with the most vulnerable populations at risk of being priced out of the county all together. This displacement can have negative health impacts: it disrupts […]