SPRING BREAK
Seattle Public Schools (and independent schools on the same calendar), as well as
ROAD WORK .
TRANSIT
The
West Seattle Water Taxi is on its regular schedule; next week, the spring/summer all-day, 7-days-a-week schedule begins.
BRIDGES AND DETOUR ROUTES
385th morning without the West Seattle Bridge. Here’s how it’s looking on other bridges and routes:
Low Bridge: 14th week for automated enforcement cameras; restrictions are in effect 5 am-9 pm daily – except weekends, when the bridge is now open to all until 8 am Saturday and Sunday mornings. (Read about other changes ahead, here.)
Here’s a low-bridge view:
Learning from Lockdown: key lessons from virtual education across the country
The Education Lab partnered with newsrooms across America to explore what works for remote classrooms and why.
Learning from Lockdown: key lessons from virtual education across the country.(Brian Stauffer / The Dallas Morning News))
The sudden closing of schools across the United States was a disaster for many students, families and teachers. But in some places, educators and students are making things work and even finding ideas that could outlast the pandemic and transform American schooling for the better.
In this reporting collaborative, the Education Labs at
The Dallas Morning News,
The teens who clean homes during Zoom classes: juggling work and school in the pandemic
Teenagers from families who have been hit hardest by the recession entered the workforce to support their families. With schools reopening, teachers worry they won’t come back
This series was reported by The74Million.org, a nonprofit education news site, in partnership with the Guardian
Swin Cobón Sanchez, a high school senior, cleans houses during the day. At night, he mops, vacuums and empties trash at a downtown Seattle medical clinic. He hopes to graduate this year. Photograph: Courtesy Swin Cobón Sanchez
Andy McCone March 6, 2021 (7:40 am)
Is that correct, the Death stats from last week? Or are this week’s numbers wrong? Last week was 1380 this week is 1312?“One week ago, the first four totals were 81,918/1,380/5,084/900,647“
workdowntown March 6, 2021 (7:51 am)
Hate to be a downer, but looks like the death number is understated…
WSB March 6, 2021 (10:24 am)
Fixed. Checking my screengrab from Friday (since they don’t archive the page as-is, I keep screengrabs of the county page now), it was 1,412, not 1,512.
JJ March 6, 2021 (8:05 am)
Take a look at this recent publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab183 Children get Covid, often show only mild or no symptoms and are hard to test with a very high false negative rate on PCRs. They also suffer long Covid with lingering symptoms in about 13 percent of infected young children. Apparently, adults are biased to ignore mild symptoms in children. There is no evidence that children are not
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