As Washington State COVID cases keep falling, here’s the data driving the ongoing ‘Stay Home’ order, feds award $192M to Sea-Tac for Coronavirus relief, smaller grants to other Washington airports, and more from this week’s Seattle in the Spotlight.

As Washington State COVID Cases Keep Falling, Here’s the Data Driving the Ongoing ‘Stay Home’ Order

GeekWire | Todd Bishop and Taylor Soper | April 15

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/washington-state-covid-19-cases-keep-falling-heres-data-driving-continued-stay-home-order/

“Washington state reported its lowest daily total of COVID-19 cases in more than a month on Wednesday. However, Gov. Jay Inslee says the numbers don’t yet indicate that it’s time to start relaxing the social distancing requirements and “stay home” order believed to have helped minimize the spread of the disease. Speaking at a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Inslee showed projections from the Institute for Disease Modeling and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, two Seattle-area research organizations, both of which say that cases and fatalities could rebound if social distancing and other precautions are removed or relaxed now.”

Feds Award $192 Million to Sea-Tac for Coronavirus Relief, Smaller Grants to Other Washington Airports

Seattle Times | Katherine Khashimova Long | April 15

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/feds-award-192-million-to-sea-tac-for-coronavirus-relief-smaller-grants-to-other-washington-airports/

“Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will receive more than $192 million in relief funds, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Tuesday. The grant is part of a $10 billion package of aid disbursed through the CARES Act stimulus package for airports struggling under travel restrictions meant to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. Airport-industry group Airports Council International began lobbying for the money in mid-March, as flight cancellations and social-distancing measures ballooned airports’ loss projections.”

UW Medicine Begins Coronavirus Testing for All Patients Admitted to its Hospitals

GeekWire | Alan Boyle | April 13

https://www.geekwire.com/2020/uw-medicine-begins-coronavirus-testing-patients-admitted-hospitals/

“The University of Washington’s medical system says it’s begun testing all patients admitted to its hospitals for coronavirus. The change in policy recognizes the fact that some patients may carry the virus that causes COVID-19 even if they don’t have the best-known symptoms of the disease, such as fever or a dry cough. “We are finding people who are asymptomatic who have COVID in their nasopharynx when we swab them,” Chloe Bryson-Cahn, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said in a video about the policy change.”