Health officials are sounding the alarm about new COVID cases. COVID cases are rising in Western Washington. Seattle doctors are concerned and are letting the city know as hospitalizations are on the rise. Experts are blaming the surge on a highly infectious variant and the ending to the mask mandate. The country is approaching 1 million deaths due to COVID.
More people died due to COVID-19 than one million. COVID was just attributed to those million deaths. Other causes proclaimed could have also been COVID. There is still that high number of people still suffering from the aftereffects.
The aftereffects are increasing hospitalizations. Also, the death rate is starting to increase. The data is showing that the indicators are going in the wrong direction with no peak in sight.
According to the Department of Laboratory Medicine, the city’s positivity rate is at 20%. That is considered very high. The numbers could be higher and going unreported due to at-home testing.
No one knows what will happen in the next several weeks. There may be issues of resources and ICU beds. There is a prediction for the fall and winter of 100 million COVID infections. The hospital system is currently stressed.
