In this March 6, 2020 photo, a sign at the Gates Foundation Discovery Center indicates that the facility, which highlights the public health and other work done world-wide by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is closed due to worries and uncertainty about the COVID-19 coronavirus. King County has become the epicenter of the outbreak of the virus in the U.S., and local businesses are bracing for the cascading impacts of losing business from customers and tourists for an …
March 10, 2020
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Seattle small businesses pinched as virus keeps workers home
SEATTLE (AP) — The coronavirus outbreak has largely emptied Seattle's usually busy downtown streets after Amazon and other companies told tens of thousands of people to work from home. That means far fewer customers for restaurants, shops and other businesses.