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Health officials in Washington are warning that the coronavirus is spreading more widely throughout the state, an increase likely driven by transmissions that took place over Memorial Day Weekend.In a report issued Saturday, the state Department of Health pointed to two distinct hotspots, both of which are showing worrying signs of increased spreading. Confirmed COVID-19 cases…

Americans head outdoors for Memorial Day weekend An outbreak of coronavirus cases at a food processing plant in Washington state has put a temporary halt to Clark County's plans to enter phase 2 of the state's reopening plan. According to Clark County Public Health, 38 workers at Firestone Pacific Foods in Vancouver have tested positive…

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Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A Washington state choir practice that saw one symptomatic person infect nearly 87 percent of those who attended, was officially deemed a "superspreader event," according to a report published on Tuesday.Of the 61 Skagit Valley Chorale members who attended the 2 1/2…

Deborah Coughlin was neither short of breath nor coughing. In those first days after she contracted the novel coronavirus, her fever never spiked above 100 degrees. It was vomiting and diarrhea that brought her to a Hartford, Conn., emergency room on May 1. “You would have thought it was a stomach virus,” said her daughter,…