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‘All in Wa’ COVID-19 benefit concert raises $45M behind Macklemore, Pearl Jam, Bill Gates and more

The “All in Wa” benefit concert for coronavirus relief Wednesday night raised more than $45 million as a host of… Read More

Amazon workers renew call for transparency as public health officials disclose new COVID cases

Pressure is building on Amazon to release data on the prevalence of COVID-19 among its employees as new cases come… Read More

Pandemic projections suggest requiring masks could save 33,000 lives in U.S.

The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has added mask-on and mask-off options to its computer-based projections… Read More

Sonos cuts 12% of workforce due to pandemic; impact on Seattle engineering office not yet clear

Speaker-maker Sonos, which has a large presence in downtown Seattle, announced Tuesday that it is cutting 12 percent of its… Read More

Washington mandates masks in public statewide as COVID-19 cases rise

Washington state will require all residents to wear face coverings in public to slow the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Jay… Read More

Drug combination

Institute halts COVID-19 clinical trial for hydroxychloroquine due to low enrollment

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has shut down a clinical trial to see if a combination of… Read More

Comcast offers 60 days of free broadband for low-income families in Washington state through 2020

Comcast will offer 60 days of free broadband service to low-income customers in Washington state through the rest of the… Read More

WA Food Fund at work

Paul G. Allen Family Foundation donates $2.2M to COVID-19 causes (with an assist from Amazon)

The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced two contributions to support people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington state,… Read More

COVID-19 Perseverance Plate

Perseverance rover will go to Mars with a monument to COVID-19 medical teams

When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands in Mars’ Jezero Crater next February, it’ll be carrying a tribute to the medical community… Read More

At-home test kit

Researchers want to pick up the pace on early testing and treatment for COVID-19

Scientists from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington say the search for COVID-19 treatments should… Read More

Coronavirus

British study suggests that a low-cost steroid could reduce COVID-19 death rate

A study involving thousands of COVID-19 patients in Britain suggests that a low-cost steroid drug known as dexamethasone could significantly… Read More

Seattle video game convention PAX West falls to COVID-19 and will be part of 9-day online event

PAX West, the giant video game convention originally planned for Labor Day weekend in Seattle, is being turned into a… Read More

Organizers finally cancel Emerald City Comic Con after pushing event back because of pandemic

Organizers of Emerald City Comic Con announced Tuesday that the annual pop culture extravaganza in Seattle will be cancelled due… Read More

IHME and C19Pro projections

COVID-19 projections show higher death tolls ahead as restrictions are lifted

The latest projections for the course of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. suggest that there’s going to be an… Read More

Seattle adopts hazard pay for food delivery drivers during the pandemic

The Seattle City Council unanimously approved legislation Monday that requires food delivery companies to pay drivers $2.50 per delivery on… Read More

California ‘Star Wars Celebration’ cancelled by same organizers behind Seattle’s Emerald City Comicon

Star Wars Celebration, a major entertainment event that was slated to take place in late August in Anaheim, Calif., has… Read More

Hydroxychloroquine pills on lung X-ray

FDA ends authorization to use hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 and issues warning, but trials go on

The Food and Drug Administration today revoked its emergency authorization for two related antimalarial drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, to be… Read More

Latest testing shows no big spike in COVID-19 cases due to protests, as thousands wear masks

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office says it’s seeing no evidence so far that protesters are testing positive for COVID-19 at… Read More

Photos: Inside an Amazon fulfillment center, masked up and spaced apart during COVID-19

KENT, Wash. — So long, door desk. Hello, plexiglass-enclosed roaming human help desk. Not far from where hundreds of robots… Read More

Evolution of coronavirus in U.S.

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, experts lay out 10-point plan for a genomic revolution in public health

From the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, genetic sleuths have been at the forefront in the global effort to… Read More

Immune system activity

Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft team up to track coronavirus-fighting cells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gro9DtSKqos Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft have launched an open-access database called ImmuneCODE to catalog the many ways in which… Read More

Sample testing

SCAN resumes community coronavirus testing after winning review board’s OK

The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network today resumed its at-home COVID-19 testing campaign, nearly a month after the program was suspended… Read More

Comparative coronavirus charts

Coronavirus projections converge amid concerns about a pandemic resurgence

Dueling projections for the course of the COVID-19 pandemic are converging on a narrower range of estimates for this summer,… Read More

Researchers gauge the effect of protests and reopenings on reviving the pandemic

Epidemiologists say the crowding conditions associated with mass protests over police violence seem likely to add dozens of people, or… Read More

Larry Corey

Vaccine veterans preview milestones on the long road to the end of the pandemic

A public-private partnership called Operation Warp Speed is aiming to get multiple vaccines approved by the end of the year… Read More

Pop culture toy maker Funko will lay off about 250 employees in further fallout from COVID-19

Funko, the Everett, Wash.-based makers of pop culture figurines and other merchandise, is cutting its workforce by about 250 employees.… Read More

Elon Musk

Elon Musk tweets, ‘Time to break up Amazon’ as he defends author in dispute over COVID-19 book

Elon Musk jumped to the defense of an author on Twitter on Thursday who was claiming that his book submission… Read More

Virtual internships: Tech companies and students adjust as pandemic forces remote experience

After receiving an offer letter in February to work as an intern at Amazon, Yaminee Patel envisioned a summer “running… Read More

Warehouse workers sue Amazon over COVID-19 exposure after death of an employee’s relative

Barbara Chandler believes she contracted COVID-19 in March at her job, working in an Amazon warehouse in New York where… Read More

WHO director-general

WHO resumes using hydroxychloroquine in COVID trial; discouraging study retracted due to doubts

After a weeklong review of safety data, the World Health Organization announced today that it’s ending a “pause” in the… Read More

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