A Seattle suburb is turning a youth soccer field into a makeshift hospital
Washington State’s newest hospital. Photo: Lester Black Coronavirus has probably been spreading in Seattle’s suburbs for at least eight weeks, since America’s first case of COVID-19 was found at a hospital 30 miles north of the city. But while the virus was silently traveling, its lethality was hard for much of the general public to really see. Sure, Seattle’s freeways emptied out and downtown bars boarded up their windows.
“It is a natural reaction to be shocked, but this is the new reality,” Constantine said in an interview Friday. “In every community in this county there are people who have been infected — who may or may not be showing symptoms — and may be infecting others.” These efforts began substantially earlier in the Seattle area, where the country’s first-known outbreak of coronavirus has already killed at least 95 people and infected 1,040 in King County alone. On March 2, when local deaths jumped from two to six in one night, Constantine started a property-buying spree, announcing that he was using his emergency powers to buy a motel for quarantine uses.
Not every scientist is convinced by these dire predictions. Dr. John Ioannidis, a Stanford professor who said in an essay this month that the pandemic might be “a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco,” claimed Propublica’s model is faulty because it assumes 20 percent of COVID-19 patients need to be hospitalized — a rate, he said that “is probably astronomically higher than reality.
The Washington State Department of Health said Friday that they could not predict when the region’s hospitals will become overburdened and the state does not release data on the number of people in hospital beds. But Jessica Baggett, a spokesperson for the department, said in an email that medical supplies are needed as much as new hospital beds.
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