Bill Gates Issues Warning About Next Pandemic
The Microsoft co-founder said he believes there is a 10-15 percent chance of a natural pandemic hitting in the next four ...
5 years later: Experts weigh in on Covid-19 and it's impact since global emergency
Covid-19 was officially declared a Global Emergency by the World Health Organization. Experts reflect on the lessons learned ...
These 6 metros have the highest share of remote workers. Here's what they reveal about the future of remote work
Remote work led to a rise in cross-metro work, where employees can work in a different metro area from their manager. As The ...
Washington state hospitals lose nearly $400 million in first nine months of 2024, Providence loses $66 million in Spokane area
Hospitals in Spokane continued to bleed tens of millions of dollars last year – even as the losses slowed from those of 2023.
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UW study aims to spot the next pandemic before it spreads
The Seattle Pandemic Preparedness Cohort study is designed to give a real-time snapshot of which respiratory viruses are out ...
The CIA believes COVID most likely originated from a lab but has low confidence in its own finding
WASHINGTON — The CIA now believes the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic most likely originated from a laboratory, ...
US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam
New results from a national exam find that America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of ...
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WA chief justice reflects on pandemic’s lasting imprint on state courts
Like everything else, Washington’s court system was upended by COVID-19. Court proceedings paused or moved online. Cases piled up. Justice was delayed.
Sea-Tac airport broke its passenger volume record in 2024
Passenger levels at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were at an all-time high in 2024, a sign that the Pacific ...
CIA shifts stance on cause of COVID-19 pandemic, says lab leak 'more likely' than natural origin
The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is “more likely” to have emerged from a lab rather ...
China complains about CIA changing its tune on COVID-19 origins theory
The news comes after the CIA announced over the weekend that COVID-19 most likely originated from a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.
CIA says COVID-19 more likely to have come from lab than nature
The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely to have emerged from a lab than from ...