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Whatcom County continues to feel the impact of the more than three-month-long delta surge, as the county now has had 14 COVID-related deaths reported in the past two weeks. Whatcom had two more deaths linked to COVID-19 reported by the Washington State Department of Health’s COVID-19 Data Dashboard on Thursday, Nov. 4, bringing its pandemic total to 167. The deaths reported Thursday were for residents who first tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 21 and Oct. 27, The Bellingham Herald’s analysis of the state’s epidemiological data showed. They represent the 11th and 12th epidemiological deaths the county has seen in October and increased the county’s total number of deaths since Aug. 1 to 55, The Herald found.

With 6,445 total cases (confirmed and probable combined) in the county since Aug. 1, Whatcom has seen 0.9% of cases during that time frame result in death, The Herald’s analysis showed. That is still better than the county’s pandemic death average of 1.0%, according to the state’s data, and the statewide 1.2% rate.