Gov. Jay Inslee and Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal announced an update in the metrics used to inform local school district decisions for in-person learning.
They also announced $3 million from set aside funds to be distributed to implement health and safety protocols.
The update to the school health and safety toolkit comes after recent data showed limited COVID-19 transmission in school environments when state health and safety protocols are implemented.
Read the rest of the story on the governor's Medium page.
Case updates December 17, 2020
United States
- cases 16,987,911 - 230,953 cases since yesterday
- deaths 309,880 - 3,444 deaths since yesterday
Washington state - the DOH is still reviewing and adjusting numbers
- cases 220,268 - includes 7,985 probable cases - 3063 from previous count
- hospitalizations 13,291 - 56 since last report
- deaths 3,104 - no reports on weekends
King county
- cases 56,693 - 774 since yesterday
- hospitalizations 3,823 - 20 since yesterday
- deaths 978 - 2 since yesterday
Seattle - population 744,995 (2018)
- cases 14,206 - 183 since yesterday
- hospitalizations 914 - 1 since yesterday
- deaths 244 - 0 since yesterday
Shoreline - population 56,752 (2018)
- cases 1,451 - 15 since yesterday
- hospitalizations 150 - 2 since yesterday
- deaths 77 - 0 since yesterday
Lake Forest Park - 13,569 (2018)
- cases 170 - 0 since yesterday
- hospitalizations 14 - -1 since yesterday
- deaths 3 - 0 since yesterday
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