Reduce Your COVID-19 Risk While Protesting

June 10, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

We urge all people protesting against racial injustice to take steps to stay healthy and avoid bringing COVID-19 home with them. We need to keep each other healthy now and get to a more just future for everyone.Here are a few tips for before, during, and after protests to reduce risk of COVID-19 for yourself and others:

Expanded free COVID-19 testing in south King County

June 10, 2020.Reading time 8 minutes.

Summary: Three new free COVID-19 test sites open in south King County this week. In addition, local community organizations will provide free-drive through testing access in Renton and Federal Way this weekend. Also, the Greater Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) study is resuming. The study will continue to inform King County’s public health response by […]

Greater Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) resumes COVID-19 testing

June 10, 2020.Reading time 22 minutes.

SCAN is re-launching on Wednesday, June 10th, while upholding the spirit of #ShutDownSTEM. The study’s researchers move forward with their work, including outreach to underserved communities, and recognize the disproportionate impact that COVID-19 is having on Black communities and other people of color, with devastating consequence. Black Lives Matter. The team stands with those across […]

COVID-19 testing is increasingly available in King County

May 12, 2020.Reading time 15 minutes.

COVID-19 testing is a key strategy for reducing the spread of the virus in our community. Public Health – Seattle & King County is now recommending that anyone who has COVID-19 symptoms or close contact with someone who has COVID-19 be tested right away. Testing as soon as possible after symptoms appear is important to […]

Antibody (serology) tests: What we know and don’t know

April 21, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

A new type of test that measures antibodies to the SARS-CoV2 virus has been getting a lot of attention lately and is becoming available, but there are important limitations.

Greater Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) Releases Data from First 18 Days of Testing

April 17, 2020.Reading time 11 minutes.

On March 23, Public Health — Seattle & King County and the team behind the Seattle Flu Study launched the greater Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network—or SCAN for short. Thanks to the participation of volunteers across the county, SCAN has already begun to identify cases that might otherwise have gone undetected. In its first 18 days, […]