Late last week, state officials did admit counting anyone who tested positive and died, as having been directly related to COVID-19...even if they were killed by a gun or in a car crash.
More testing produces, obviously, more cases. But when you compare system onset with number of "new" cases on BFHD website, you see numbers dropping the last two weeks.
Deaths hit 30 in our area, but continue to be nearly all persons 60 or older, and many with compromised immune systems or previously diagnosed health issues.
8 years ago, Bill Walker, who was 69 at the time, was killed by a pipe bomb in Moses Lake. Now, his family has teamed with Crime Stoppers, and hoping a $10K reward will breathe new life into this unsolved murder, as well as another similar crime hours later.
Uniontown is one of a number of tiny wheat farming dots on the map near Pullman and Colfax WA in Whitman County, which makes these deaths even more shocking.