Spokane Regional Health District doesn t report new cases the same way the state does If you ve been following the COVID-19 numbers in Spokane, nobody could blame you for being alarmed at what looks like an uptick in cases this last week. Since Friday, according to the Spokane Regional Health District, there have been more than 1,000 new cases, or 168 per day a huge increase in case rate from the week before. Using those numbers, the But those numbers are deceiving. At least 300 of those cases are not actually new cases at all but instead positive cases from weeks or months earlier, says health district spokesperson Kelli Hawkins. Some of them are positive test results from as far back as December.
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