COVID case numbers tick back up in King County, but ‘positive trends’ persist

After two months on the decline, King and Snohomish Counties’ coronavirus numbers are going up. The slight uptick is concurrent with reports that the omicron subvariant has become the dominant COVID strain in Washington state.

Omicron subvariant goes from 7% to 25% of local cases within a week

King County health trackers say cases have jumped 26% in the past week. Hospitalizations are climbing there as well, but death rates continue to drop. The increases come a little more than two weeks after our state’s indoor mask mandate ended.

“The first and foremost important thing is the fact that overall, [we are] continuing to see positive trends in our

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