After a Most Difficult COVID-19 Pandemic Year, Cautious Optimism and Gratitude

February 28, 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

Dr. Jeff Duchin reflects on the pandemic–marking one year since the first cases of COVID-19 were identified in our community. “We have many reasons to be encouraged as a community. Although this has been a dreadful year in many ways, King County and our region has, until this point, weathered this storm relatively well compared to most of the rest of the country.”

Understanding the need for crisis behavioral health services during the pandemic in King County

July 16, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

Public Health – Seattle & King County has added behavioral health information to its data tools examining the COVID-19 pandemic’s impacts on social, economic, and overall health in King County. This new data dashboard examines behavioral health indicators that measure requests for suicide-related crisis services (including calls to crisis centers or 9-1-1) throughout the pandemic.

New data shows broader social, economic, health impacts of efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19

May 20, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Public Health – Seattle & King County has created a new set of data tools that show some of the broader impacts in King County – focusing on social, economic, and overall health and well-being.

Pandemic in Seattle: A comic strip about 1918 and now

April 5, 2020.Reading time 15 minutes.

How is today’s COVID-19 pandemic in Seattle similar–and different–than what happened during the 1918 influenza pandemic? We explore how public health measures made a difference then, and what that means now, through a comic strip.

What happens if the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads here? A conversation with our health officer.

February 24, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

With continuing spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak to more countries, it is increasingly likely that we will see a worldwide spread (or pandemic) that will reach the US at some point. How would a coronavirus pandemic potentially play out and what can we do to protect ourselves and get through it? We asked […]

The 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak and pandemic preparedness

January 31, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

Updated on 2/27/20: This blog post was originally posted on 1/31/20. Out of date information has been deleted from this blog. As the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak continues to expand in China, and the World Health Organization has now declared a global public health emergency, it raises questions about what it means for the United […]