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Emergency department tech Chandra Kelley works in EvergreenHealth’s emergency department and critical care unit in Kirkland. Hospitalizations for patients with symptoms of COVID-19-like illnesses in Washington declined last week, officials said. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times) — Chandra Kelley works in EvergreenHealth's emergency department and critical care unit in Kirkland. (Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)

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Hospitalizations for COVID-19-like illness declined last week in Washington, offering a glimmer of hope

A 20% downturn in hospitalizations for people with coronavirus-like symptoms in Washington, once the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus epidemic, offers a glimmer of hope for the region and nation.

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The lower bridge at right, over the Duwamish Waterway is handling all traffic to and from West Seattle while the higher West Seattle Bridge at left, is undergoing repairs for cracking.

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Traffic Lab

West Seattle Bridge closure already causing snarled traffic on bridge below

Vince Viet Nguyen, center, visits his father Hoang Nguyen’s grave Friday with his husband Michael Burleson, left. Hoang Nguyen, died from Covid-19 and was buried on Wednesday, about 30 feet from his son Peter Nguyen. 213485

Local News

Grief, compassion and ingenuity as the coronavirus brings endless complications to one family’s goodbye

Wed. March 25, 2020. Rob Williams at left is a commercial pilot based in Seattle. He became sick and got a battery of tests; including for COVID-19 that had different test results given him–negative and positive. His partner, Karl Watson at right has kept social distance from Rob in their 2-bedroom apartment for the last 13 days. 213447

Local News

Seattle pilot’s misdiagnosis highlights challenges around coronavirus testing

Coronavirus

Dr. Ming Lin says he was terminated by PeaceHealth St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Bellingham for speaking out about its lack of preparedness for an influx of patients infected with Coronavirus.

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Bellingham physician who decried lack of coronavirus protections is removed, sparking protest

Health resources & info »

Where to get tested for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — if you qualify

8 tips for taking care of mind and body while at home during the coronavirus pandemic

Therapy during a pandemic: 'This is new for all of us'

As social distancing measures hit the Seattle area’s parks and outdoor spaces, here’s what’s open and what’s closed

Mapping a pandemic »

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How to poach an egg. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Stacy Zarin Goldberg 144.0.1939080108

Food & Drink

The best way to poach an egg also happens to be the easiest

“Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.” focuses on the Sri Lankan artist and musician.
Credit: Abramorama / Cinereach

TV/Streaming

Fascinating documentaries — all streaming — shine a light on the Rolling Stones, cats, dogs and more WATCH

USC receiver Michael Pittman Jr. makes a touchdown saving face mask grab of Washington’s Elijah Molden who makes the interception on the goal line in the 3rd quarter. The University of Southern California played the University of Washington in NCAA Football Saturday September 28, 2019 at Husky Stadium in Seattle, WA. 211622

Seahawks

NFL mock draft: predicting how all seven picks could play out for the Seahawks

Horsey cartoon

Health workers should not have to beg for supplies

Local News & Politics

Ben Larson, left, and Kelabe Tewolde sign some of their eligible democracy vouchers outside the University District Trader Joes after hearing the pitch from council candidate Shaun Scott, center. Scott and his campaign team work the University District Trader Joes, and encouraged people so inclined to sign Democracy Vouchers if they were so inclined. Photographed Thursday, May 23, 2019. 210362

U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to Seattle’s ‘democracy vouchers’

Featured Columnist

Coronavirus shows everyone what people with disabilities have known all along

Education Lab

Students, how are coronavirus-related school closures affecting you?

High school seniors cope with the loss and confusion over next steps during coronavirus

Durkan issues order that will allow her to establish emergency child care while schools are closed for coronavirus

Child care centers are essential to the economy. But can they survive the coronavirus pandemic?

The class of 2020 may get a reprieve from some graduation requirements because of coronavirus closures

Business & Tech

At VENTEC in Bothell, manufacturing engineer Sai Keomanivong, left, works with quality control technician Raymond Isip (cq) tests a Ventec machine.
March 18, 2020.

Photos taken March 18, 2020. 213386

Inside the ‘incredibly challenging’ effort by GM and Ventec to make more ventilators for coronavirus fight

Featured Columnist

How the novel coronavirus infected the global supply chain

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Nation & World

This combination of photos taken March 21, 2020 and provided by Kate Hinds shows Fiona Hinds, 20, giving her sister, Sophie, 18, a haircut in New York, left, and Sophie Hinds posing with her new haircut. As the spread of the coronavirus sends more people into isolation around the world, trips to beloved salons and barber shops for morale-boosting services are a thing of the past. Some are brazenly cutting their own bangs or cutting their hair of loved ones for the first time. (Kate Hinds via AP) NYET352 NYET352

As haircuts grow out and gray grows in, how nation's handling it at home VIEW

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A screenshot submitted as part of a complaint filed with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office against Bellevue company OfferUp, which allows people to sell items online, for allowing alleged coronavirus-related price gouging.

$150 for $7 sanitizer? Price gouging complaints pile up in Washington state amid coronavirus outbreak

Food & Drink

Truffle fries are an extra dollar for the hefty burger, topped with a jammy bacon marmalade at Joli.

Neighborhood Eats goes takeout style! Here are three great options in Ballard

Pacific NW Magazine

Josie Alldredge, 18, stands at the summit on Broken Top Mountain.

Nuclear-weapons testing and cancer: A Snohomish teenager carries her family’s legacy to the summit of an Oregon mountain

Editorials & Opinion

Doctor’s firing in coronavirus crisis shows a failure of corporate medicine | Editorial

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Ask the Free Press editor: Your questions about America’s local journalism crisis answered

Horsey Cartoon

Health workers should not have to beg for supplies

Sports

1963 UW FILE: Jim Lambright, as defensive end.

As a player, future UW coaching icon ‘Jimmy’ Lambright was willing to do whatever it took to win

Featured Columnist

Seahawks’ offseason additions may not excite fans, but history shows there’s reason to have faith

Arts & Life

An Aug. 9, 2007 file photo shows a cooked frozen pizza. (AP Photo/Larry Crowe) FRA114

8 tips for taking care of mind and body while at home during the coronavirus pandemic

Moira Macdonald

Fuzzy feeling: Seattle neighborhoods create teddy bear scavenger hunt during coronavirus isolation

Photography

Normally vibrant Occidental Park during the day is occupied mainly by seagulls, pigeons, a few homeless individuals and an occasional passerby. The park concierge service and daily activities including chess and table tennis have been suspended because of the coronavirus.

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Local News

Coronavirus in Seattle means a popular park is occupied mostly by pigeons VIEW

LO Smokey fire, 600 Roy Street at Aurora on Saturday March 28, 2020.
Lower Queen Anne.

Appears to be an abandoned apartment.
Unofficial, old banner in many frames has been there awhile

Seattle fire crews responded late Saturday morning to a fire in an abandoned building in Lower Queen Anne, next to Aurora Avenue. … building, which appeared to be a two-story brick structure in the 600 block of Roy Street. 213494

Local News

Crews fight fire in vacant Seattle building for more than 5 hours

Capitol Hill Frame Central employee Thaleia Sundquist and manager Dennis Turner spray paint a stencil of photographer Lance Mercer outside of the store Thursday, March 26, 2020. Turner boarded up the store, which has been open for 25 years, to protect it during closure due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Artist Chloe Guenther created the stencil- is based on a recent self-portrait of Mercer-who is know known for his iconic images of Seattle bands Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mother Love Bone and others.
Mercer, who has a compromised immune system due to Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, has been staying inside his apartment for the last three weeks, with the exception of daily walks with a mask and glasses. Mercer has been sharing his experience on social media, and wanted to emphasize “We are not alone,” he says.
Turner hoped the images of Mercer could “soften the reality” of boarding up longtime businesses and celebrate “how strong and resilient Seattlties are.”
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The face of resilience on a Capitol Hill storefront in Seattle

One-year-old Bodie Bennett, learning how to walk, gets a helping hand from his parents Erin and Matthew Bennett in a daffodil field along Beaver Marsh Road in Mt Vernon across the street from Roozengaarde in the Skagit Valley on March 19, 2020. 213383 213383

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First steps amid the first blooms in the Skagit Valley VIEW