March 13, 2020 - People around the country are asking me what daily life is like in Seattle, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. It’s surreal. It’s unprecedented. And it’s largely still unknown.

March 13, 2020 - James Ross Gardner writes about the life changes faced by the residents of the Seattle, Washington, metropolitan area as it faces the first U.S. wave of the coronavirus outbreak that has reached worldwide pandemic proportions.

March 27, 2020 - Since the first positive test of coronavirus in King County, Wash., the Seattle Fire Department has been developing best practices, including information sharing and how to slow the burn rate of personal protective equipment.

March 8, 2020 - Seattle is currently the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States. Most of the deaths associated with the virus have been traced to a suburban nursing home there. Microsoft and Amazon, major local employers, are curtailing travel and urging telework.

March 2, 2020 - This outdoorsy city of 90,000 just northeast of Seattle, known for its piney woods, water sports and a Google campus with a meandering bike path running through it, has become the epicenter of the U.S. response to the deadly coronavirus as it begins to spread along the West Coast.

March 6, 2020 - Kathy Jackson was at Life Care Center in Kirkland, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., on Friday. By Sunday she was sick. But the public health system still didn't seem interested in testing her.

March 16, 2020 - Within hours, Kirkland, an affluent mid-sized suburb that until two weeks ago was best known outside of Washington as the namesake for Costco's Kirkland Signature brand, became the epicenter of the U.S. coronavirus outbreak.

April 26, 2020 - Long before the COVID-19 outbreak in New York, the coronavirus first made its mark in King County, one of the most populated counties in the United Stated. King County is home to Seattle, the city that became the first epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S. One by one, other cities – then ...

March 5, 2020 - In Kirkland, where a nursing home has faced a series of cases, groceries are selling out with residents on high alert

March 6, 2020 - Officials in King County, Washington, the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., said this week they would use emergency powers to buy and renovate an Econo Lodge south of Seattle to house virus patients.

May 8, 2020 - Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan with mask on overlooking city ... “We had a unified message from the governor to the county executive to the mayor,” Durkan said. “So that we spoke with one voice.” · Across the country, in New York, Dr. Isaac Weisfuse feared New York would overtake Washington as the epicenter of the coronavirus ...

March 17, 2020 - A family-owned restaurant just around the corner from the nursing home at the center of the Seattle area's outbreak faces uncertainty.

March 1, 2021 - James Ross Gardner writes about the progress that has been made and the difficult lessons learned in the year since the Seattle area registered the country’s first confirmed COVID-19 death.

March 8, 2020 - King County had been considering buying the Econo Lodge for some time, potentially as a location for isolating people with hepatitis A, measles and tuberculosis.

March 24, 2020 - COVID-19 has spread across Washington, the U.S. and the world at staggering speeds. Here's what we know so far about the spread of coronavirus and its global impacts.

March 4, 2020 - Of the 18 total COVID-19 cases to emerge in Washington state, nine have been linked to Life Care Center nursing home, officials said. Some 50 people were being monitored for signs of the illness, officials said over the weekend.

March 24, 2020 - Here's what you need to know to help stop its spread.