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August 3, 2021 5:06 PM
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SPOKANE, Wash. Anyone following Spokane County’s reporting of COVID-19 cases saw a huge spike Tuesday afternoon. But, the Spokane Regional Health District says the spike is due in part to the clearing of a backlog by the state.
Spokane County reported 451 cases Tuesday. That would be the most cases since January and the sixth-highest number since the pandemic began. The county also reported that 80 people are in the hospital with COVID-19 right now, which marks a huge increase from the day before.
There’s more to the story, though, than just the numbers.
The spike in Spokane is part of a statewide backlog in cases. The Washington Department of Health said 6,000 new cases would be reported Tuesday, clearing a backlog from July 30th.
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July 28, 2021 6:47 PM
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SPOKANE, Wash. Most regions of the country including Spokane and Idaho are seeing a rise in COVID cases. While the rise is nowhere near as bad as the peak earlier this year, the uptick does have health officials across the region concerned over another wave of the virus.
Across Spokane County, hospitalizations are still flat, but at Providence, between their two campuses in Spokane, they’ve seen an average of 20 people hospitalized because of COVID in the past two weeks a slight trend upwards.
While cases across the county are nowhere near what they once were, data shows that within the past month, in Spokane County, they’ve seen a slight increase in cases.