COVID-19 pandemic in Washington
2020 CE.
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The first confirmed case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States was announced by the state of Washington on January 21, 2020. Washington made the first announcement of a death from the disease in the United States on February 29 and later announced that two deaths there on February 26 were also due to COVID-19. Until mid-March, Washington had the highest absolute number of confirmed cases and the highest number per capita of any state in the country, until it was surpassed by New York state on April 10, 2020. Many of the deceased were residents of a nursing home in Kirkland, an Eastside suburb of Seattle in King County. Governor Jay Inslee declared a state of emergency on February 29, 2020, which was followed by a statewide stay-at-home order on March 23 that would last at least two weeks. Washington had 1,989,477 confirmed cases and a total of 16,100 confirmed deaths as of September 6, 2023. Public health experts agree that the true number of cases in the state is much greater than the number that have been confirmed by laboratory tests.
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