Seattle’s Infectious Disease Research Institute is working with Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine to multiply the doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine by 30 to 100 times. Other partners in… Read More
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., is one of the sponsors of bipartisan legislation aimed at ensuring that coronavirus tracing apps protect consumer privacy. The Exposure Notification Privacy Act relates to automated… Read More
Two months after President Donald Trump tapped a little-known Seattle-area medical device startup called Ventec Life Systems and automotive giant General Motors to help solve the nation’s ventilator shortage, the… Read More
Drivers for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Grubhub, and other delivery services will soon be eligible for paid sick time off in Seattle while the city remains in a state of emergency… Read More
Public health officials for Seattle and King County today acknowledged the seriousness of the crisis sparked by last week’s killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other confrontations across the… Read More
Two newly published studies shed light on the origins and spread of the coronavirus pandemic, starting with bats and pangolins in China and ending up with New York’s dramatically deadly… Read More
Counties across Washington state will enter a phased re-opening program Monday as Gov. Jay Inslee’s “stay-home” order expires. Inslee announced new rules Friday that will replace the shutdown order with… Read More
Here’s a trivia question for you: In what year did Seattle startup Sporcle, a trivia games company, figure out that it could survive and thrive by taking a large chunk… Read More
Epidemiologists are coming around to the view that the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the U.S., involving a Snohomish County traveler who got sick in mid-January, may not have… Read More
Dylan and Eva Stepherson just wanted to do something, anything, to lend a hand and show some compassion for those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The siblings from Seattle… Read More
Amazon is planning to offer permanent roles to 70% of the 175,000 temporary workers the company brought on to deal with surging demand driven by the coronavirus pandemic. The company… Read More
Update, June 4, 4:25 p.m. PT: All in Wa announced on Thursday that it was moving a virtual benefit concert for coronavirus relief to June 24 in recognition of events… Read More
As part of its plan for a 10% workforce reduction, Boeing says that it’s moved from voluntary layoffs to involuntary layoffs and is sending out the first 6,770 notices this… Read More
Ten days after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee took the Trump administration to task for failing to send enough supplies for coronavirus test kits, public health officials say the gap is… Read More
The Washington State Department of Health is in the early stages of a massive effort to interview COVID-19 patients and track down those who might have been infected by those… Read More
After months confined in their homes, many people who would normally hop on an airplane or crowd into popular tourist destinations are instead rediscovering the joys of camping, with help… Read More
As the new director of the grants program at the Washington Research Foundation, David Shoultz joins at a unique time for an organization dedicated to accelerating innovation in science and… Read More
Fifty percent of Facebook’s workforce could permanently shift to remote work in the next 5-10 years, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday. It’s a staggering statistic for a company… Read More
Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center already has dozens of scientists working on infectious diseases, including COVID-19 — but the center’s president and director, Thomas Lynch, says the research community… Read More
The City of Seattle launched an online marketplace Tuesday to connect organizations that need face coverings with local producers manufacturing them. Seattle Protects is a project of the city’s economic… Read More
Rad Power Bikes is fielding a 297% increase in demand as the pandemic changes consumer transportation and exercise habits. The Seattle e-bike startup disclosed the number Tuesday in a letter… Read More
Amazon has delivered more than 100 million pieces of personal protective gear and other supplies to healthcare organizations and governments in the U.S., the company said Tuesday. The items were… Read More
President Donald Trump said today that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that’s being tested as a COVID-19 treatment at the University of Washington and dozens of other sites across… Read More
The search for COVID-19 therapies has turned to an antibody that was first identified back in 2003, in a blood sample from a patient who recovered from a similar coronavirus-based… Read More
Massachusetts-based Moderna’s share price — and the stock market as a whole — were lifted today by the company’s encouraging report about a coronavirus vaccine trial that got its start… Read More
The coronavirus has left us awash in numbers about infections and deaths, layoffs and closed businesses. The recently launched $1k Project is a reminder of the people behind the statistics,… Read More
One of the treatments that’s been talked up by President Donald Trump for COVID-19 — a combination of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin, an antibiotic — is the subject… Read More
An Amazon warehouse worker in New York died from COVID-19 last month, the company confirmed to CNBC on Thursday. He marks the sixth confirmed death from the virus among Amazon’s… Read More
The Seattle real estate tech companies that have spent the past several years reporting on how attractive and hot tech hubs like Seattle, Silicon Valley and elsewhere are have shifted… Read More
Amazon’s hourly wage increases and hazard pay will expire in June, a company executive confirmed to Recode this week. Amazon hiked hourly pay for warehouse and delivery workers by $2… Read More