Covid-19 by school district, November 3, 2020

As of November 3, Whatcom County has had a total of 1,637 confirmed cases of Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic and 51 deaths, according to the Washington State Department of Health. Sixty of those cases were diagnosed in the past week. The Ferndale school district had the highest rate of new cases in the past two weeks, with 99 per 100,000 people. Blaine had a rate of 23 per 100,000 in that period. In total, 109 people have been hospitalized with the virus in Whatcom County and one in the past week. Washington state has had 110,011 total confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic, with 5,984 of those coming in the past week, and 2,400 people with the virus have died as of November 3. Learn more at the Washington State Department of Health’s Covid-19 data dashboard at bit.ly/37uiCT2.