Wash. state, once the nation's coronavirus hot spot, now ranks 7th in confirmed cases

Washington state, once considered the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the U. S. , now ranks seventh among the 50 states in its total number of confirmed cases as the disease begins to spread more rapidly in other parts of the nation. While the Evergreen State reported the nation's first confirmed case and first death from COVID-19, the rate of increase here has been slower than in some other states.