Welcome to the Public Health Crafter’s Corner: Wildfire Smoke Edition! Sadly, wildfire smoke is a near-annual event with the hotter, drier summers we’re getting (see...
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Last September, in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, we lived through an unprecedented wildfire smoke event throughout the Pacific Northwest that shattered air pollution...
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We just completed a challenging and difficult calendar year—2020—but there is hope, a bright light at the end of this long tunnel. A COVID-19 vaccine...
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With all the new ways the world has been challenging us, it can be easy to forget about our inherent, natural dangers. Thursday, October 15,...
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At the Seattle Office of Emergency Management (OEM), one of our main goals is to ensure people in Seattle are ready for emergencies. We help...
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Even in ordinary times, the more than 840,000 unpaid family caregivers in Washington state face a daunting set of daily tasks. Oftentimes with little or...
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The COVID-19 pandemic continues to play out at a rapid pace and in King County, there is even greater urgency as the spread has moved...
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For some people, even the thought of being confined indoors is unsettling. Good news—if you do not have any symptoms of coronavirus, cold, flu, or...
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Some people are overwhelmed by coronavirus information. Others are hungry for as much information as they can get. It seems everyone has an opinion. How...
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The Centers for Disease Control provide guidance on protecting yourself and your family from coronavirus. A lot of this is good common sense: [caption id="attachment_2586" align="alignright"...
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Coronavirus—sometimes called novel (meaning new) coronavirus or COVID-19, which is short for Coronavirus Disease 2019—weighs on the hearts and minds of people around the world....
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