A claim being pushed on social media and by an organization skeptical of vaccines is using a military study to falsely suggest that the flu vaccine increases someone’s risk of contracting COVID-19. The study does not say that, and the Military Health System advises people to get the flu shot.

Public officials are putting high hopes on new blood tests as a means of determining who has developed antibodies to COVID-19, and with those antibodies, presumed immunity. But experts caution the tests are largely unreliable and the science is still catching up.

Politicians pledged to stop providers from charging for video appointments or telephone calls, but some patients are being charged $70 or $80 per virtual visit.

A teenage driver distracted by using his phone while driving was ticketed for using an electronic device while driving.

One by one, toward the end of March, residents of Enumclaw Health and Rehabilitation Center outside of Seattle started coming down with symptoms of COVID-19.

Starting Monday, symptomatic individuals – and any healthcare workers or first responders – will be able to get tested for the presence of Coronavirus. That’s the goal of Skagit County’s new drive-through testing site in the east parking lot of Skagit Valley College, near McIntyre Hall.