I am able to look at the number of confirmed cases as well as the death from the two adjoining zip code that make up the 4.6 sq mile Seattle neighborhood I am in. It is a mixed area, single family home, lots of apartments and condos, a couple of thousand boats with a lot of people living aboard, a number of major arterial streets with businesses of many types plus and industrial area along and the waterways, plus another good sized section of industrial activity now earning the name of brewery gulch because so many micro breweries have moved into the industrial buildings. There many waterfront areas has always been a lot of pubs and bars in the neighborhood dating back into the late 1800s. Fortunately also a hospital and many medical clinics.
So today's confirmed Covid 19 case count total for the hood is 100 with 7 deaths. For sure you can most likely double that 100 to cover all the mild cases as those folks are told to stay at home and self quarantine, there are not enough of the test available to give them one.
I have to be very careful when I go out on essential trips. Still a lot of people in the stores not wearing mask. I do wish the stores themselves would require them but they don't have enough on hand to provide them for customers or gloves either. Not enough PPE for everyone going out on errands has been one the real issues that has let things get out of control. When I went to the grocery store yesterday it was fairly well stocked but not as much meat on hand as normal or flour. But there was plenty of paper products, rice was also available, but not a lot of pasta left on the shelf. Plenty of dairy and eggs as well as a fully stocked produce section. The frozen food section was also well stocked. So only lacking in a few sections within the store but nothing I noticed was sold out other than peroxide and rubbing alcohol. The store had staff sanitizing every cart for the customers. Plus staff at the doors to make sure there was no overcrowding. It was not at all crowded at 3:00 in the afternoon, no lines at the check out stands. This was a small local chain store, not tiny but not a super sized store. The owner's have always had a well run operation.
If you want to know how many truly local to you cases there are try seeing if your county provides it by zip code. The states don't always break it down that way. But it is the counties who are reporting it to the States so some of them do have that data available even if there is no state wide data at a more local level than the data provided for each of the counties within the state.
