CORONAVIRUS: This week’s West Seattle numbers and notes

The weekend’s over, so right here’s our weekly roundup of native COVID numbers by way of the Public Well being – Seattle/King County dashboard:

*21 p.c fewer instances reported countywide up to now week than the week earlier than
*At present averaging 279 new every day instances countywide (down from 349 per week in the past)

*9 p.c extra hospitalizations countywide up to now week than the week earlier than
*At present averaging 11 new hospitalizations every day (up from 13 per week in the past)

*15 p.c fewer deaths countywide up to now two weeks than the 2 earlier weeks (the dashboard doesn’t supply a one-week increment)
*At present averaging 3 deaths every day (identical as final week’s two-week common)

For West Seattle, we’ve two-week comparisons (the mixed totals from two “well being reporting areas,” labeled West Seattle and Delridge, collectively comprising all the peninsula):
*217 instances between 8/22 and 9/05, down from 318 between 8/7 and eight/21
*2 hospitalizations between 8/22 and 9/05, down from 6 between 8/7 and eight/21
*2 deaths between 8/22 and 9/05, down from 4 between 8/7 and eight/21

VACCINATION: Checking vaccination charges:
*82.5 p.c of all King County residents have accomplished the preliminary sequence (unchanged from per week in the past)
*86.9 p.c of all King County residents ages 5 and up have accomplished the preliminary sequence (up .1% from per week in the past)
*52.5 p.c of all King County residents have had the preliminary sequence plus a booster (unchanged from per week in the past)

*In West Seattle, we’re now exhibiting the vaccination charges for all ages, by ZIP code (reminder, 98106 and 98146 aren’t wholly inside WS), in comparison with per week earlier:
98106 – 83.5% accomplished preliminary sequence (up .1%), 52.7% have had a booster (up .1%)
98116 – 90.2% accomplished preliminary sequence (up .1%), 65.6% have had a booster (up .2%)
98126 – 79.7% accomplished preliminary sequence (up .1%), 54.6% have had a booster (unchanged)
98136 – 90.2% accomplished preliminary sequence (unchanged), 67.9% have had a booster (unchanged)
98146 – 79% accomplished preliminary sequence (up .1%), 47.8% have had a booster (up .1%)

GETTING VACCINATED: Pliable is providing two pop-ups with Pfizer’s bivalent booster this weekend – particulars right here … We’ve been mentioning upcoming pop-ups at native libraries – right here’s the checklist of what’s forward (nothing this week).

TESTING: If you wish to get examined and don’t have – or need to get – a house equipment, right here’s data on West Seattle’s two public testing websites: Town-supported web site at Nino Cantu Southwest Athletic Complicated (2801 SW Thistle, 9 am-5:30 pm Monday-Saturday this week) and the Healing kiosk at Don Armeni Boat Ramp (1220 Harbor SW, 9 am-3 pm Monday-Friday this week). … To report self-test outcomes, this web page explains how (click on “What ought to I do if my take a look at is constructive?”). … Ans among the many many locations you will get home-test kits, we’re advised free kits even have been seen at some native libraries.