White Center COVID-19 quarantine site explained

The White Center COVID-19 quarantine site is a quarantine site in the unincorporated King County neighborhood of White Center, near Seattle, Washington, in the United States. Residents who are diagnosed with COVID-19 but can not be quarantined at home, but who do not need emergency medical care, will be housed there. Many of them are expected to be the homeless.[1]

The facility was funded by Public Health – Seattle & King County as part of a $28 million emergency spending package. The plan was announced on March 3 and the first trailer was installed there on the same day.[2] [3] There will be space for 32 people to be housed in eight trailers.[4] By March 27, the trailers had plumbing and were ready for use.[5]

Senator Joe Nguyen, who represents White Center in the Washington State Legislature, said he was "wary to see that this facility has been placed in a community already deeply disenfranchised by decades of policies working against it".[6]

The White Center facility was one of five quarantine sites in King County by the end of March, with others in Kent, Issaquah, North Seattle, and one adjacent to Harborview hospital in Seattle.[7]

Notes and References

  1. News: King County buys Kent motel to house COVID-19 patients . March 4, 2020. KIRO. The space will be used for people who aren’t sick enough to go to the hospital, yet can’t be in isolation at home, for instance, someone who is homeless or who has an immuno-compromised family member..
  2. News: Quarantine trailers to be installed in White Center for coronavirus patients. March 3, 2020. Steve Kiggins. KCPQ. Tacoma.
  3. News: Seattle Weekly. More than 100 quarantine rooms are planned for King County COVID-19 response – Locations for the facilities will include Seattle and White Center.. Haley Ausbun. March 3, 2020.
  4. News: King County approves millions in emergency funding for coronavirus quarantine facilities. March 10, 2020. The Seattle Times. David Gutman .
  5. News: KOMO-TV. Seattle. Coronavirus response: Plans and locations for local quarantine sites grow. Matt Markovich. March 27, 2020.
  6. News: 'Deeply disenfranchised' White Center to house coronavirus quarantine. Nick Bowman. Mynorthwest.com. March 4, 2020.
  7. News: Renton Reporter. King County and Seattle expand COVID-19 emergency shelter and housing response. March 26, 2020.

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