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Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Gov. Jay Inslee today announced a two-week pause on movement in the Healthy Washington: Roadmap to Recovery reopening plan. Under the pause, every county will remain in its current phase. At the end of two weeks, each county will be re-evaluated.
The decision was made in consultation with the Department of Health (DOH), and reflects current data suggesting Washington’s fourth wave has hit a plateau. (The DOH will hold a press conference tomorrow morning at 8:15 a.m.; see below for details.)
“The two-week pause provides time to see which direction we are heading and whether we are turning the corner on the 4th wave while we continue to do everything we possibly can to get more people vaccinated — especially younger adults — to decrease future risk,” said Dr. Jeff Duchin, Health Officer, Public Health — Seattle & King County. “Our best path out of the painful cycle of COVID-19 resurgences and restrictions — and for a return to normalcy as quickly as possible — is by getting vaccinated as soon as possible. As more people get vaccinated, the number of infections and hospitalizations will go down and all of us will be safer.”
Read the Governor’s full statement here. You may also be interested in this Seattle Times article: Inslee pauses COVID reopening plan; no Washington counties to roll back for 2 weeks.
The state Department of Health (DOH) will hold a press conference tomorrow morning at 8:15 a.m. to give an update on the state's response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Participating are Secretary of Health Umair A. Shah and other DOH staff, VACCS Director Dan Laster, and HIV Vaccine Trials Network & COVID-19 Prevention Network's Director of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Community Engagement Michele P. Andrasik. The press conference can be viewed live at TVW here.
As always, I would like to hear from you. You can call me at 206-477-1004 or you can reach me by email at jeanne.kohl-welles@kingcounty.gov.
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