The 250-bed facility, for which setup began on March 30, was intended to help Washington state's health care system tend to non Covid-19 patients in the event of a hospital surge.

But just three days after announcing the facility was ready to receive patients, officials say they're returning the hospital to the federal government.

The action is aimed at helping another state with a more significant need for hospital capacity at this time, according to the Governor's Office. The facility did not see any patients during the time it was slated to operate in Seattle.

Home outbreaks were the dominant category (254 of 318 outbreaks; 79.9%), followed by transport (108; 34.0%; note that many outbreaks involved more than one venue category). Most home outbreaks involved three to five cases. We identified only a single outbreak in an outdoor environment, which involved two cases. Conclusions: All identified outbreaks of three or more cases occurred in an indoor environment, which confirms that sharing indoor space is a major SARS-CoV-2 infection risk.

Every disease has its patient zero, and for the coronavirus Covid-19, patient zero was Wei Guixian, a 57 year old woman who worked as a seafood merchant in Wuhan’s Huanan market. At the market, social media images show that meat was traded alongside live bats, rats, snakes, wolf pups and koalas.

The Italian Institute of Health moreover distinguishes between those who died from the coronavirus and those who died with the coronavirus. In many cases it is not yet clear whether the persons died from the virus or from their pre-existing chronic diseases or from a combination of both.

The two Italians deceased under 40 years of age (both 39 years old) were a cancer patient and a diabetes patient with additional complications. In these cases, too, the exact cause of death was not yet clear (i.e. if from the virus or from their pre-existing diseases).

In 2019, there was a massive outbreak of the measles in New York City for that reason.

In 2014, a measles outbreak in Disneyland sent the number of cases to a 20-year high. Without herd immunity, where enough people have had the disease to avoid driving major outbreaks, future spikes will likely be much bigger.

Soros's success in legalizing marijuana use is now putting millions of Americans who have taken up smoking marijuana (because it's legal) at higher risk of infection by COVID-19.  "Cannabis smoking is growing rapidly and has been linked with poor respiratory health, immunosuppression and multiple contaminants," says renowned cannabis researcher Albert Stuart Reece, professor of medicine, University of Western Australia.  A recent publication by 

The coronavirus may not be as deadly as previously suggested, according to a new study that accounts for cases that were not diagnosed.