The department’s new respiratory illness data dashboard still tracks COVID-19 activity
Spencer Pauley
The Center Square Washington
The Washington State Department of Health on Monday announced the retirement of its COVID-19 dashboard, with a replacement that shows data about multiple respiratory illnesses.
The department’s new respiratory illness data dashboard still tracks COVID-19 activity, but it also documents flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, disease activity by region across the state.
“We hope the new respiratory illness data dashboard will inform communities and help guide their personal decision making on prevention measures such as masks and social distancing,” Washington State Department of Health Chief Science Officer Tao Sheng Kwan-Gett said in a news release.
Kwan-Gett recommended that people be up to date on vaccinations and stay home when sick to protect themselves and others from the impacts of the COVID-19 virus, as well as the flu an RSV.
“We all need to do our part to reduce the chance that our healthcare system could be overwhelmed by respiratory illnesses in the coming months,” Kwan-Gett added.
The inclusion of data from previous years is a new feature of the health department’s latest data dashboard. It is meant to provide the public with clearer comparisons between current disease activity and that of years past.
With summer coming to an end in less than a week, flu season will soon begin.
On the COVID-19 front, however, there is some good news: data shows the virus is not as much of a threat to the public as in recent years.
According to the most recent data, 2.6% of total hospitalizations in the state were COVID-19 related between Sept. 3 and Sept. 9. During a similar time frame two years ago – Sept. 5 through Sept. 11 – 13.1% of total hospitalizations were related to COVID-19.
There were no cases of hospitalizations from RSV in the same time span this year. There was only one case of someone taking up an intensive care unit bed due to the flu.
The dashboard will be updated weekly through April 2024. Any subsequent updates are contingent upon the degree of ongoing COVID-19 activity, according to the department.
This report was first published by The Center Square Washington.
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Covid 19 is a complete fraud from top to bottom. Those involved in perpetrating the scamdemic on the public should be jailed, but we cannot avoid recognizing the public’s complicity with the overreach. It’s as if they were just gagging for pandemic so they could hoard TP and vilify their neighbors over government dictated arbitrary rules like unhinged control freaks. What will the next one be, the climate mcguffin?
The WA DOH is a joke and an unnecessary bureaucracy. It should be gotten rid of along with many others. Not only for its complete inadequacy, but for its inability to recognize that public health is completely irrelevant without individual health. Finally, if DOH has anyone left working there right now (who would want to), someone should update the All Cause Mortality data. That has not been updated as of 2020. So STRANGE, right folks?!
Let’s reject the face diapers, shutdowns, and jabs, okay? The UN 2030 plan is that we are dead, poor and starving, or locked an inescapable digital prison. Reject face cameras and fingerprints and biometrics. Use cash and reject CBDCs.
I know some of you put your faith in Orange Jesus. Just remember he was the first Prez to do gun law by executve fiat and vaxx mandates (MMR anyone?). He also put Goldman Sachs, Blackrock, and Pharma people at top posoiions in his swamp. Thought he was going to drain it? Oh well guess not. Trust the plan and 4-d chess. Okay, got it. He got up to a podium with Walmart and Target scumbags and called you “nonessential.” He hates your guts just like Brandon, Inslee, Ferguson, all the WEF leeches, etc. He thinks you are stupid. Is he right?
There will be NO top down solution through voting for your own oppression. It is just NOT going to happen. Not sure why people think this is the case. Peaceful noncompliance and not being afraid to voice your opinion and stand out is a great start. Peace