Only one Whatcom region sees COVID rate increase; another passes vaccination milestone
The Bellingham Herald 4 days ago David Rasbach, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.)
May 26 Six of Whatcom County s seven school district regions saw their COVID-19 infection rates decrease last week, and one of those six regions also surpassing having half of its residents initiate vaccination.
The region covered by the Mount Baker School District was the only area within Whatcom County to see its two-week total of new COVID-19 infections per 100,000 residents increase last week, according to data released Tuesday, May 25, by the Whatcom County Health Department.
But Mount Baker was still one of four regions to have a rate lower than 200, joining Bellingham, Blaine and Ferndale.
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Many students in Washington state lack internet access. This and other inequities exposed by this pandemic shouldn’t surprise anyone they’ve been festering for decades, writes Claudia Rowe. (Meg Kinnard/AP)
By now, we can agree: Kids are getting less education during the pandemic. Much of the hand-wringing over this has focused on laptops, and making sure that all students have them. More than $24 million in federal COVID-19 aid went toward providing devices for Washington students. But all that shiny tech is useless if the computers stall out on platforms like Microsoft Teams or Zoom for lack of high-speed broadband and that’s if students have internet at home at all.