With food insecurity on the rise, Public Health highlights critical new and existing resources

June 17, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Summary: Exacerbated by COVID-19, a growing number of people in King County are seeking food assistance. To help address this urgent need, Public Health – Seattle & King County, the City of Seattle and the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction are launching new efforts to connect families in need to food resources. […]

Navigating Grief During COVId-19

June 11, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

By Shawna Johnson & Maureen Horgan, members of the COVID-19 Community Well-being and Resilience Team The COVID-19 pandemic may be introducing new layers of loss – social isolation, disrupted routines and cancelled future plans, financial strain, illness, and perhaps death – to everyday life. On top of COVID-19 and its varying effects, you may be […]

3 Tips to Add Face Coverings to your Routine

June 8, 2020.Reading time 6 minutes.

Wearing a face covering in public is a habit we need to ingrain, not only because of the Local Health Officer Directive but also because we’ll need to protect each other as we gradually engage with the outside world again. But starting new habits is rarely easy. Here are three tips that might help make face coverings part of your routine.

Results from new model show necessity of robust contact tracing and other measures to prevent resurgence in epidemic

May 26, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

A comprehensive program of increased testing, isolation of infected people, and contact tracing with quarantine of home and work contacts could prevent growth in the epidemic as King County gradually re-opens, according to a new modeling report by the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM). The report also found that there was little room to increase […]

Media Release: Now available: Local data on unemployment, healthcare, housing and other measures during COVID-19 pandemic

May 20, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

New data tools now available provide information on the social, health and economic impacts during COVID-19.

New delivery service underway for customers of Tukwila Food Pantry

May 15, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

People who need food in the Tukwila area received the first home deliveries from the Tukwila Food Pantry recently, and more households will benefit from the new program through the end of June.