King County COVID-19 updates for April 9, 2021

Video: Dr. Jeff Duchin discusses steady rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, Public Health Insider blog

On April 9th, in his weekly press briefing, Health Officer Dr. Jeff Duchin addresses the continued high COVID-19 case count in King County, as well as efforts to equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines.

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ASL video series: What to expect from the COVID-19 vaccines, CDC

This video in American Sign Language shares what to expect when an individual gets vaccinated for COVID-19.

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Video: A quick guide to using King County's COVID-19 Vaccination Data Dashboard, Public Health on YouTube

For community event organizers: Learn about the features in the COVID-19 Vaccination Data Dashboard. This dashboard shows vaccination rates by zip code. We encourage you to use the data to plan a community vaccine event or another type of outreach to reach communities with lower vaccination rates.

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• Daily case report data dashboard
  • Daily outbreak summary for web-enabled mobile devices (phones and tablets)

• Total positive counts in King County: 90,581
  • New counts since yesterday: 219 at overall 4.2% of all tests
    
    
• Total hospitalizations in King County: 5,444
  • New hospitalizations since yesterday: 15 at 6.0% of all positive cases
    
    
• Total deaths due to COVID-19 illness in King County: 1,483
  • New deaths since yesterday: 2 at 1.6% of all positive cases
    
    
• Total count of all test results: 2,181,757
  • New test results since yesterday: 5,711
    
    
• Total count of people tested in King County: 990,088
  • New count of people tested since yesterday: 1,476

All other COVID-19 dashboards are posted at www.kingcounty.gov/covid/data

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View COVID-19 daily email alerts online posted in the past week.