County holding tight on COVID

Meanwhile, the spread is rapid in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties By Calvin Bratt [email protected]   WHATCOM ­— While the COVID-19 infection rate has spiked alarmingly elsewhere in Washington, it has held about steady in the high 40s for several weeks now locally.   After being just over 50 in mid-October, the rate was 49.3 as of…