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Anacortes Police arrested and jailed an Oak Harbor woman in connection the theft of a car reported stolen out of Oak Harbor, as well as several other charges.

Vaccines and antivirals have long been an afterthought but Johnson & Johnson and other firms are widely publicizing how they might stop COVID 19.

Conspiratorial videos and websites about COVID-19 are going viral. Here’s how one of the authors of “The Conspiracy Theory Handbook” says you can fight back. One big takeaway: Focus your efforts on people who can hear evidence and think rationally.

California’s governor and San Francisco’s mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far.

Thousands of researchers worldwide are looking for a treatment that will go beyond what remdesivir can do for COVID patients.

Now is the time to stay strong. Our lives have been turned upside down, but now - we can slowly start to build our new normal by following the Governor’s Safe Start plan. Video & full text here.

The city says the campground at Washington Park, which has been open, will close effective immediately.  

Still, medical experts say, it’s not a black-and-white decision of either go on a ventilator or die.

Skagit County Public Health says that its study on the Skagit Chorale COVID-19 outbreak has been published by the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control. The study emphasizes the high-transmissibility of COVID-19 and explains new findings about the outbreak event.  

Anacortes Police were on the case when they checked out two phoned-in reports of animals, an elephant seal and a small fawn, close in to humans.