Articles about COVID-19 – Page 12 of 15

Hot tip: Friends launch ‘Seattle Tip Jar’ to help service industry workers during COVID-19

Here’s a news tip for you: restaurant servers, bartenders, baristas and other service industry workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic… Read More

Bill Gates calls Trump’s freeze on WHO funding ‘dangerous’ and tweet draws a viral response

Bill Gates joined the chorus of people expressing shock and disappointment in President Trump’s announcement Tuesday that he would freeze… Read More

First Amazon warehouse worker dies of COVID-19 as fulfillment center outbreaks mount

The first known COVID-19 death among Amazon’s workforce occurred two weeks ago, the company said Tuesday. An operations manager at… Read More

Startup founder Jane Park ‘pivots with purpose’ as gift wrap maker Tokki shifts to face masks

Jane Park’s vision for wrapping gifts in eco-friendly fabrics with a digital twist has shifted to wrapping the faces of… Read More

Amazon fires two employees who called for climate change reform and better warehouse conditions

Amazon fired two highly visible employee activists who regularly criticize the company’s position on climate change and conditions inside its… Read More

Feel like visiting ‘just one friend’ during COVID-19 lockdown? UW illustrates damage it could cause

That desire you have to get together with just one friend, and break the social distancing barrier which has kept… Read More

Washington, Oregon and California to coordinate on plan to re-open economies and fight COVID-19

West Coast states unveiled a unified approach to lifting lockdown orders and combating COVID-19 on Monday. The governors of Washington,… Read More

As local farmers embrace technology, coronavirus crisis could change our relationship to food forever

Alex Johnstone and David Rothstein dreamed of changing the world through food. They started with pastries. Then the coronavirus hit.… Read More

Amazon fills 100k warehouse worker jobs, plans to hire 75k more to meet pandemic-driven demand

Amazon added 100,000 new warehouse workers over the past month to help fulfill the surge in orders by customers sheltering… Read More

Drone video: See Microsoft’s sprawling HQ campus — with no workers in sight during COVID-19 crisis

The pathways and parking lots are empty. No one is seated at the outdoor tables or playing on the soccer… Read More

Taken out of the ball game, coaches go online to teach skills and aid Fred Hutch’s COVID-19 fight

Tanner Swanson was a week away from starting his first full season in the Major Leagues as a member of… Read More

How the global coronavirus response creates opportunities for impact investing

When Crysti Chen heard about the shortage of medical masks in Seattle-area hospitals, her first instinct was to reach out… Read More

In Seattle and across U.S., ‘Light It Blue’ campaign is a colorful ‘thank you’ to front-line workers

Buildings and landmarks across Seattle and the U.S. were awash in blue light on Thursday night as part of another… Read More

Amazon redirects some employees to build out COVID-19 testing capacity for its front-line workers

With thousands of its own workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic as warehouse workers, delivery personnel, grocery… Read More

Two Seattle tech workers stick it to coronavirus with virtual ‘Gumwall’ to benefit restaurant workers

Seattle’s famously gooey Gum Wall tourist attraction was scrubbed of an estimated 1 million pieces of chewing gum back in… Read More

Senate Democrats grill Amazon on warehouse worker firing, COVID-19 procedures

A group of Democrats in the U.S. Senate sent a letter to Amazon on Wednesday questioning the company’s rationale for… Read More

Bill Gates says coronavirus will forever alter work, but face-to-face school is ‘totally irreplaceable’

Bill Gates’ 1995 book “The Road Ahead” forecast the way personal computing and the internet would change everything about life… Read More

How AI is helping scientists in the fight against COVID-19, from robots to predicting the future

Artificial intelligence is playing a part in each stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, from predicting the spread of the novel… Read More

Startup stimulus? How logjams and ethics are impacting federal loans for tech companies

A small business owner in Seattle waited nearly 12 hours to speak with a representative at her credit union, seeking… Read More

Viral sensation: Seattle kid who built coronavirus website catches eye of a top Twitter tastemaker

Talk about going viral. Avi Schiffmann, the 17-year-old high school student from Mercer Island, Wash., just outside Seattle, started working… Read More

COVID-19 crisis sparks ‘inflection point’ for online grocery — and huge revenue for Amazon

More people are ordering groceries online due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, leading to a permanent consumer purchasing shift —… Read More

Washington state launches $5M grant program to help small businesses struggling under shutdown

Washington rolled out a $5 million emergency grant program Tuesday to help small businesses in the state that have been… Read More

Internet should be an ‘essential utility,’ WA schools chief says as state pulls plug on rest of term

The longtime problem of digital inequity has been thrown into sharp relief by the coronavirus pandemic as schools turn to… Read More

Multiple vaccines could be needed to fully stop COVID-19 pandemic, UW vaccinologist says

Although more than 40 organizations are developing the COVID-19 vaccine, only three have made it to human testing. Leading the way… Read More

Couple puts out a call for used laptops and other devices to donate to Seattle students in need

In his day job as the director of learning programs for Minecraft Education, Adam Tratt is out to inspire students… Read More

Seattle Children’s imaging expert uses CT scanner and 3D printing to replace vital equipment parts

Along with the health care workers, delivery drivers, grocery store employees and many others being celebrated for their efforts on… Read More

Google location data for Seattle shows decline in work, transit and retail trips — but not park visits

Seattle-area residents are taking Washington state’s social distancing mandate seriously. They have dramatically reduced trips to work, retail and restaurants,… Read More

‘The heart of our city is quiet’: Video shot through and above downtown Seattle captures emptiness

As painful as it is to witness the empty streets and boarded up storefronts in downtown Seattle and throughout the… Read More

Bill Gates on FOX News: US can beat COVID-19 death projections with nationwide distancing and better testing

Bill Gates continued his media interviews this weekend, appearing on CBS This Morning and FOX News Sunday to talk about… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: How COVID-19 is squeezing Amazon; Good news stories; Farewell, John Legere

Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast. Amazon is under pressure as workers in dozens of… Read More