The “All in Wa” benefit concert for coronavirus relief Wednesday night raised more than $45 million as a host of musicians, celebrities and noted Northwesterners made appearances on the live-streamed… Read More
Pressure is building on Amazon to release data on the prevalence of COVID-19 among its employees as new cases come to light among warehouse workers. Since the beginning of the… Read More
The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation has added mask-on and mask-off options to its computer-based projections for the course of the coronavirus pandemic — and estimates… Read More
Speaker-maker Sonos, which has a large presence in downtown Seattle, announced Tuesday that it is cutting 12 percent of its global workforce due to uncertainty and challenges stemming from the… Read More
Washington state will require all residents to wear face coverings in public to slow the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday. The mask mandate takes effect Friday and… Read More
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has shut down a clinical trial to see if a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin can prevent hospitalization and death due to… Read More
Comcast will offer 60 days of free broadband service to low-income customers in Washington state through the rest of the year as the coronavirus pandemic forces many families to rely… Read More
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation announced two contributions to support people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Washington state, adding up to $2.2 million. The foundation is contributing $1… Read More
When NASA’s Perseverance rover lands in Mars’ Jezero Crater next February, it’ll be carrying a tribute to the medical community and their work to quell the coronavirus pandemic. A 3-by-5-inch… Read More
Scientists from Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington say the search for COVID-19 treatments should widen its focus from hospitalized patients to people who are… Read More
A study involving thousands of COVID-19 patients in Britain suggests that a low-cost steroid drug known as dexamethasone could significantly reduce the death rate for those sick enough to require… Read More
PAX West, the giant video game convention originally planned for Labor Day weekend in Seattle, is being turned into a 9-day, free online event as COVID-19 forced organizers to cancel… Read More
Organizers of Emerald City Comic Con announced Tuesday that the annual pop culture extravaganza in Seattle will be cancelled due to ongoing concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a… Read More
The latest projections for the course of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. suggest that there’s going to be an upswing in the daily death toll, but they differ in… Read More
The Seattle City Council unanimously approved legislation Monday that requires food delivery companies to pay drivers $2.50 per delivery on top of their regular rates. The hazard pay is intended… Read More
Star Wars Celebration, a major entertainment event that was slated to take place in late August in Anaheim, Calif., has been cancelled, raising new questions about the fate of this year’s… Read More
The Food and Drug Administration today revoked its emergency authorization for two related antimalarial drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, to be used for treating COVID-19. Citing emerging scientific data, the FDA… Read More
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office says it’s seeing no evidence so far that protesters are testing positive for COVID-19 at higher rates than normal after attending protests. In an online… Read More
KENT, Wash. — So long, door desk. Hello, plexiglass-enclosed roaming human help desk. Not far from where hundreds of robots were buzzing about the floor of Amazon’s sprawling BFI4 fulfillment… Read More
From the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, genetic sleuths have been at the forefront in the global effort to monitor SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. By comparing the… Read More
Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft have launched an open-access database called ImmuneCODE to catalog the many ways in which our immune systems fight off a coronavirus infection. The project leverages… Read More
The Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network today resumed its at-home COVID-19 testing campaign, nearly a month after the program was suspended due to regulatory snags. Public Health – Seattle & King… Read More
Dueling projections for the course of the COVID-19 pandemic are converging on a narrower range of estimates for this summer, as expected, but the longer-term outlook doesn’t call for coronavirus… Read More
Epidemiologists say the crowding conditions associated with mass protests over police violence seem likely to add dozens of people, or perhaps even hundreds, to the daily death toll from coronavirus… Read More
A public-private partnership called Operation Warp Speed is aiming to get multiple vaccines approved by the end of the year to protect against COVID-19 — but two veterans of the… Read More
Funko, the Everett, Wash.-based makers of pop culture figurines and other merchandise, is cutting its workforce by about 250 employees. According to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange… Read More
Elon Musk jumped to the defense of an author on Twitter on Thursday who was claiming that his book submission was “censored” by Amazon. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX… Read More
After receiving an offer letter in February to work as an intern at Amazon, Yaminee Patel envisioned a summer “running around Seattle.” Having lived in small towns and cities her… Read More
Barbara Chandler believes she contracted COVID-19 in March at her job, working in an Amazon warehouse in New York where she experienced “a culture of workplace fear reinforced by constant… Read More
After a weeklong review of safety data, the World Health Organization announced today that it’s ending a “pause” in the use of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine in an international clinical… Read More