Seattle Children’s ordered to release mold records in precedent-setting case
After a court battle against KING 5 and public health departments, the appeals court ruled Seattle Children’s must turn over records about mold infections. Author: Chris Ingalls Updated: 9:47 PM PDT May 3, 2021
SEATTLE A Washington state appeals court has upheld a lower court order requiring public health departments to release to KING 5 documents related to Aspergillus mold infections at Seattle Children’s hospital.
The decision appears to have ended the hospital’s year-and-a-half-long legal campaign to block the release of mold-related records by Public Health – Seattle & King County and the Washington State Department of Health (DOH).
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One of the most frustrating aspects of the coronavirus pandemic has been often-conflicting information. Through 13 months of business shutdowns and health concerns, making sense of a non-stop news cycle and sifting fact from fiction have been a challenge.
Such was the case Tuesday.
On one hand, the Centers for Disease Control issued guidelines saying that it is safe for people who have been vaccinated to gather outdoors without masks, provided they are not in a large crowd. On the other hand, reports highlighted a spike in infections in Washington, Oregon officials reinstated restrictions for that state’s largest counties, and evidence showed that younger adults are showing new susceptibility to the disease.
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With vaccination totals increasing and coronavirus cases declining across the country, many Americans are feeling a newfound sense of hope, that perhaps, there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
However, health and government officials across the country are continuing to warn that the virus is still spreading among unvaccinated populations, with a larger share of younger Americans becoming infected, and in some cases, hospitalized with severe cases of the virus.
For the first time, patients between the ages of 18 and 64 now account for the largest cohort of the 37,000 total patients currently hospitalized with the virus. With more older Americans vaccinated, this marks the third week that the number of hospitalized individuals in the 65 and older age group has been smaller than both the 18-49, and the 50-64 age groups.
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Demand for COVID-19 vaccine stalls in some parts of US
In Philadelphia, there is a push to get through 4,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine before it expires Thursday. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters, FILE
With vaccination totals increasing and coronavirus cases declining across the country, many Americans are feeling a newfound sense of hope, that perhaps, there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
However, health and government officials across the country are continuing to warn that the virus is still spreading among unvaccinated populations, with a larger share of younger Americans becoming infected, and in some cases, hospitalized with severe cases of the virus.