The Seattle Pandemic Preparedness Cohort study is designed to give a real-time snapshot of which respiratory viruses are out there and how they are evolving and spreading.

Unemployment and jobless claims are still far down from their all-time high in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Stephens also highlighted the court’s Blake decision. In the landmark ruling in 2021, the state Supreme Court struck down Washington’s law criminalizing drug possession. As a result, convictions under the law could be vacated and legal fees could be refunded.

President Biden's pardon protects Anthony Fauci, a longtime target of MAGA critics, from charges related to the contentious debate over origins of Covid or other issues.

Governor-elect Bob Ferguson intends to trim $4.4 billion from the state budget, but listed universal free lunches for Washington schoolchildren in his budget priorities announced Thursday. He spent part of his day Friday visiting Whitman Elementary in Spokane emphasizing his commitment to free lunches.

College enrollment numbers are higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic for the first time in five years. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center released a report Thursday showing total enrollment was up 4.

Richard Conniff is the author of “Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape From Contagion.” Lawrence O. Gostin is a law professor at Georgetown University and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for National and Global Health Law.

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

USF public health professor Donna Petersen says collaboration was critical in helping community leaders respond to the pandemic. In hindsight, she says interventions like shutdowns were in place too long.

As of President Donald Trump's first day back in office Monday, the United States is leaving the World Health Organization. Some local experts think such a move might leave Spokane and the United States unprepared for the next pandemic.

Actor Robert Pattinson shared that he started worrying about cinema after the Covid-19 pandemic and then the strikes as people started saying that cinema is dying. “The last few years for the film industry,

WASHINGTON — President Trump began his second term Monday with a sweeping order aimed at reversing dozens of former President Biden’s top priorities, from regulations aimed at lowering health care costs, to coronavirus outreach, Affordable Care Act expansions, and protections against gender-based discrimination.