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| Growing Body Of Evidence Suggests Masks Protect Those Wearing Them, Too | NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Monica Gandhi of the University of California, San Francisco, about growing evidence that masks help lower the severity of the coronavirus for those who wear them. |
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| Here鈥檚 who was tested at COVID-19 drive-thru in Whatcom County | People turned out in even higher numbers for the second week of a pilot COVID-19 drive-thru testing program at Bellingham鈥檚 Civic Stadium organized by the Whatcom County Health Department and Whatcom Unified Command. The health department reported 1,021 people turned out to be tested for鈥 |
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| Eight in Whatcom County test positive for COVID-19, state says Sunday | Eight Whatcom County residents have tested positive for COVID-19 according to the on Sunday, July 19. No new deaths have鈥 |
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| Older children can spread the coronavirus just as much as adults, study finds | In the , one burning question has been whether and how efficiently children can spread the鈥 |
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| UK coronavirus vaccine prompts immune response in early test | Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot. British researchers first began testing the vaccine in April in about 1,000 people, half of whom got鈥 |
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| Fall Athletics canceled by the GNAC | |||
| As others struggle, this is how Whatcom County can offer rapid COVID-19 test results | Northwest Laboratory in Bellingham has increased its coronavirus testing capacity about five-fold since it started testing in March and has maintained a 24-hour turnaround while other labs across the country are seeing delays. |
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| Intalco workers look for options amid plant curtailment | Every Intalco job lost equates to 2-2.5 unstable jobs in the county when workers scale back their normal spending habits, explained Hart Hodges, director of the Center of Economics and Business Research at Western Washington University. That means the Intalco losses threaten more than 1,750 jobs鈥 |
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| Inslee pauses reopening of Washington鈥檚 counties through July 28 as COVID-19 cases spike | Counties in Washington state won鈥檛 be able to relax restrictions further for at least two weeks as confirmed cases of the new coronavirus climb around the state, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday. And with a 鈥渟teady increase鈥 in cases across Washington, the governor, in a news conference鈥 |
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| 草榴社区 applauds foreign student rule reversal | Western Provost Brent Carbajal had called the order issued last week by Homeland Security 鈥渕isguided and cruel,鈥 especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. But he says in a statement posted that the university is very pleased with the reversal and will continue to support鈥 |