KING COUNTY, Wash. — King County is seeing a summertime spike in COVID-19 cases, and that includes hospitalizations, according to Seattle and King County Public Health.
King County’s data dashboard shows that for the week of Aug. 10, there were 111 people hospitalized with COVID-19. The slightly raised red line means the percent of ER visits for COVID-19 is the highest it’s been this year, but is lower than this time last year.
COVID-19 remains a very real health threat, and this is particularly important for high-risk individuals,” Seattle and King County Public Health Chief of Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Immunization Dr. Eric Chow told KOMO News. “COVID-19, with this increase, really expands the time of year when we should take these precautions and think about these respiratory illnesses…