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    Health COVID-19 antigen rapid tests are seen here. (Mark Graves/The Oregonian via AP)
    March 10, 2023 at 10:28 am

    Washington to end free at-home COVID testing program

    Washington state will soon end its free, at-home COVID test program, more than a year after its launch.

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    MUSHROOM SHOW – SEATTLE – 101611
Mushroom expert Daniel Winkler holds up a rare mushroom, Cordyceps Militaris that grows in and on the carcuses of dead insects. 
The Wild Mushroom show sponsored by the Puget Sound Mycological Society drew lots of interested mushroom hunters to the Magnuson Park where they saw hundreds of species of mushrooms, many displayed in their natural settings along with photography and art displays, cookbooks, posters and scientific materials.  You could also bring your own mushrooms to be identified by experts. Mushroom experts were on hand to provide information about classes, field trips and other opportunities to lean about safe and successful foraging.
    March 10, 2023 at 6:00 am

    The fungus from ‘The Last of Us’ does live in WA — but it’s rare VIEW

    Cordyceps, a parasitic fungus popularized by a new HBO show, is one of many mushrooms found in WA. It won't turn you into a zombie,...

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    Lynda Price, center, a registered nurse for Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett for 32 years; with her granddaughter, Bailey Lajune and Bailey’s boyfriend Jesse Hatch, on the right, and Dana Robison, left, labor and delivery nurse. Lynda Price says, “I’ve seen a lot of changes. We’re not in a good place right now. We need safe staffing for the patients and nurses.” UFCW 3000 nurses from Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett and supporters held a candlelight vigil at Drew Nielsen Neighborhood Park in support of ongoing legislation for safe staffing standards and better patient care in Everett on Saturday, February 25, 2023.
    March 4, 2023 at 7:30 am

    WA ready to try a new approach to keeping more nurses on duty VIEW

    Controversial proposed legislation would have required hospitals to meet strict, standardized nurse-to-patient ratios. But a compromise could be ahead.

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    At the new Kirkland Urban Plaza QFC, these N95 masks are supplied by the store. You are required to sanitize your hands before picking out the masks. QFC is requiring a 3 mask per person limit. 219504
    March 3, 2023 at 10:23 am

    WA to end masking requirement in health care, correctional facilities

    Public health leaders say they are ending mask mandates at health care facilities partially because COVID, RSV and influenza rates have continued to decline.

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    Clients line up to use Northwest Harvest’s no-cost community market in Sodo, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023 in Seattle, part of larger efforts to provide fresh produce, grocery staples and other healthy food options to those in need. Emergency pandemic-era food assistance is ending in Washington state on Wednesday as a recent study shows low-income Washingtonians are still very food insecure. Further complicating matters, the region’s food banks and meal programs are much lower in inventory than they usually are at this time of
    February 28, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Key food benefit ends in WA, and hunger is already hitting hard VIEW

    Federal pandemic-era food assistance benefits end this week, worrying local food banks already struggling to keep up with the cost of groceries and gas.

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    Attorney General Bob Ferguson speaks at a press conference about the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion regarding Roe v. Wade at Kerry Park in Seattle Tuesday, May 3, 2022. 220299
    February 24, 2023 at 10:00 am

    WA lawsuit says FDA rules complicate access to abortion pill

    Washington's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the FDA, accusing it of unnecessarily complicating access to an abortion medication pill.

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    (L-R) Eric, Leonard, Else and John Cobb on Eric’s wedding day in 1997. The family lived in Seattle’s Madison Park for years, before Leonard and Else Cobb moved to the Terraces of Skyline.
    February 24, 2023 at 6:00 am

    Leonard Cobb, whose firefighter and CPR training programs saved WA lives, dies at 96 VIEW

    Leonard Cobb developed Medic One, one of the country's first efforts to train firefighters to provide emergency medical care.

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    Friday, June 26, 2020    Gina Chang, a student volunteer with RAIN lab waits for sludge to sample from a sewer catchment basin for testing and tracking COVID-19.  Environmentalists for the City of Tacoma are from left, Chad Atkinson, Steve Shortencarrier and Steve George.     214362
    February 20, 2023 at 6:00 am

    WA sewage is flush with information about COVID and more

    As Washington epidemiologists continue to study how wastewater predicts COVID trends, they're ready to start branching out and searching for other viruses.

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    February 13, 2023 at 6:00 am

    UW aims to ramp up training for different kinds of abortion providers VIEW

    Abortion training in the U.S. has been uneven and spotty for decades. A team of UW nurses and midwives is about to introduce a program...

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    One man was injured and two animals were killed in a Delridge fire Sunday morning. Seattle police suspect arson might have been involved.
    February 12, 2023 at 3:29 pm

    Arson suspected in Delridge fire that sent 1 to hospital

    Seattle firefighters saw flames coming from the three-story building when they arrived, and found a 35-year-old man standing outside, apparently injured.

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