New data dashboard from Public Health on key indicators of COVID-19 activity - King County

Public Health – Seattle & King County published today a new data dashboard that provides a snapshot of key indicators related to COVID-19 disease activity, testing capacity, and healthcare system status.

Today, Public Health – Seattle & King County published a new data dashboard called "Key Indicators of COVID-19 Activity in King County, Washington." The dashboard provides a snapshot of several useful indicators related to disease activity, testing capacity, and healthcare system status.

The information from these key metrics, along with other data and recommendations, are provided by Public Health to policy makers when they make decisions about whether current restrictions and precautions to prevent COVID-19 are adequate, need to be strengthened or might be carefully relaxed.

I'm proud of King County residents for doing their part to limit the spread of this dangerous virus, but we are not out of the woods yet.

In addition to monitoring the spread of the virus, public health and elected officials are examining the progress that we are making on the key metrics including testing and hospitalization, with other key targets on contact tracing and at-risk populations to be added to the dashboard soon.

Daily totals for new COVID-19 cases and deaths are available on Public Health's Data Dashboard webpage, which updates as soon as data are available, typically between 1-3 p.m.