2020 in Washington (state)

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The following is a list of events of the year 2020 in the U.S. state of Washington .

Incumbents

State government

• Governor: Jay Inslee (D)

Events

• January 21: First known U.S. case of COVID-19 reported in Snohomish County by Centers for Disease Control ^[1]
• February 26: First known U.S. death from COVID-19 occurs in Kirkland, part of an outbreak at a nursing home. ^[2]
• February 29: COVID-19 pandemic in Washington (state) officially begins when the first cases of COVID-19 in the United States are reported, and a state of emergency is declared by Governor Inslee
• March–October: 2020 Washington wildfires
• March 6: CNBC reports that an Amazon group in Seattle known as "Grand Challenge" and "1492" is undertaking Project Gesundheit to cure the common cold. ^{[3] [4]}
• March 23: Statewide COVID-19 lockdowns ordered by the governor
• c. April 29: Scattered Canary begins defrauding the state unemployment department, eventually taking hundreds of millions of dollars illegally ^[5]
• May – August: George Floyd protests in Washington (state)
• June 8: Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (also called CHOP or CHAZ) established
• June 1 – August 7: End of Watch Ride to Remember motorcycle rally begins and ends in Spokane
• November 3: 2020 Washington elections

Sports

• February 8–15: 2020 United States Men's Curling Championship and Women's Curling Championship, Spokane

See also

• 2020 in the United States

References

1. "Snohomish County man has the United States' first known case of coronavirus" . The Seattle Times . January 21, 2020. Archived from the original on January 25, 2020. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
2. Sullivan, Olivia (March 3, 2020). "Coronavirus death toll rises to nine in Washington". Kirkland Reporter. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
3. Farr, Christina (March 6, 2020). "Amazon is secretly working on a cure for the common cold". CNBC . Retrieved 2020-03-11.
4. Eugene Kim; Christina Farr (July 27, 2017). "Amazon has a secret health tech team called 1492 working on medical records, virtual doc visits". CNBC. Retrieved 2025-02-08.
5. Lily Hay Newman (May 19, 2020). "The Nigerian Fraudsters Ripping Off the Unemployment System". Wired . researchers say that Scattered Canary has filed at least 174 fraudulent unemployment claims in Washington since April 29