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New accounting approach raises Clark County’s COVID-19 death toll

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December 2, 2020, 5:39pm Clark County Health Free

A transition to a new state database for COVID-19 case management delayed the release of new case data on Wednesday by Clark County Public Health. Read story

FILE - In this May 8, 2020, file photo, medical personal work on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center, which is part of Seattle-area health care system UW Medicine in Seattle.

Number of people dead from COVID-19 tops 2,800 in Washington

FILE - In this May 8, 2020, file photo, medical personal work on a patient in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Harborview Medical Center, which is part of Seattle-area health care system UW Medicine in Seattle.

December 2, 2020, 8:27am Health Free

The Washington state Department of Health is reporting that an additional 31 people have died from COVID-19, bringing the total number of deaths in the state to more than 2,800 since the pandemic began. Read story

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Third round of grant program opens for businesses affected by Washington’s virus restrictions

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December 2, 2020, 6:04am Business

The state opened a new grant program today for restaurants, gyms, bowling alleys and venues stifled by Gov. Inslee’s coronavirus restrictions imposed on Nov. 15. Read story

A sign outside PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center honors hospital staff working hard to treat patients during the COVID-19 crisis.

Hospitals brace for surge in virus cases as Public Health struggles

A sign outside PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center honors hospital staff working hard to treat patients during the COVID-19 crisis.

December 2, 2020, 6:04am Clark County News

With Thanksgiving over, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center is preparing for the possibility of a 20 to 40 percent increase in its number of COVID-19 patients over the next month. Read story

All Clark County Superior Court jury trials have been suspended until at least Jan. 10, due to the surge of positive COVID-19 cases in the community and to mirror precautions taken by similarly sized courts across the state.

Clark County courts suspend jury trials due to surge in COVID-19 cases in community

All Clark County Superior Court jury trials have been suspended until at least Jan. 10, due to the surge of positive COVID-19 cases in the community and to mirror precautions taken by similarly sized courts across the state.

December 2, 2020, 6:04am Clark County News

Due to the surge of COVID-19 cases across the state and locally, Clark County courts announced Tuesday that all new jury trials are suspended into January. Read story

EMT Giselle Dorgalli, second from right, looks at a monitor Nov. 19 while performing chest compressions on a patient who tested positive for coronavirus in the emergency room at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. (Jae C.

Officials fear new surge due to holiday

EMT Giselle Dorgalli, second from right, looks at a monitor Nov. 19 while performing chest compressions on a patient who tested positive for coronavirus in the emergency room at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. (Jae C.

December 1, 2020, 6:26pm Nation & World

Nearly 37,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in November, the most in any month since the dark early days of the pandemic, engulfing families in grief, filling newspaper obituary pages and testing the capacity of morgues, funeral homes and hospitals. Read story

A nearly empty parking lot is seen at the Frito Lay factory in Fruit Valley on Tuesday morning, December 1, 2020.

Frito-Lay in Vancouver closes due to COVID-19 outbreak

A nearly empty parking lot is seen at the Frito Lay factory in Fruit Valley on Tuesday morning, December 1, 2020.

December 1, 2020, 6:00pm Business Free

Frito-Lay confirmed Tuesday that it had temporarily closed its manufacturing and distribution facility in Vancouver’s Fruit Valley neighborhood due to an outbreak of COVID-19 among the plant’s staff. Read story

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Clark County Council earmarks $5M in additional virus response funding

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December 1, 2020, 5:10pm Clark County News

Clark County has earmarked $5 million in general-fund money for its virus response beyond this year. Read story

FILE - In this July 27, 2020, file photo, Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting, of Harpersville, N.Y., an injection as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y. An influential scientific panel on Tuesday, Dec. 1, is set to tackle one of the most pressing questions in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic: When the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available, who should be at the front of the line for shots?

U.S. panel: 1st vaccines to health care workers, nursing homes

FILE - In this July 27, 2020, file photo, Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting, of Harpersville, N.Y., an injection as a study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., gets underway in Binghamton, N.Y. An influential scientific panel on Tuesday, Dec. 1, is set to tackle one of the most pressing questions in the U.S. coronavirus epidemic: When the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available, who should be at the front of the line for shots?

December 1, 2020, 3:37pm Health Free

An influential government advisory panel convened on Tuesday to answer one of the most pressing questions in the U.S. coronavirus outbreak: Who should be at the front of the line when the first vaccine shots become available? Read story

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Clark County COVID-19 death toll hits 100 with nine new deaths reported Tuesday

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December 1, 2020, 1:21pm Clark County Health Free

Clark County reported nine new COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, pushing the county's total death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic to 100. Read story