It appears the hospital admissions rate is the one that would the easiest to attain in the next two weeks, as February 26 is the next time the state will consider us to move up. However, the BFHD website as of 2-12-2021, does not readily show the hospitalization rates, like they have in the past. We scoured the site, and could not find it. These show the percentage of people in beds in the hospitals in B-F county .
This is likely due to B-F County now being lumped in with Yakima, Kittitas and Columbia Counties. A search of the roadmap to recovery state website also doesn t seem to display hospital in bed totals vs. those with COVID.
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January 28, 2021 11:31 PM Alex Crescenti
OLYMPIA, Wash. Two regions in the State of Washington will be moving forward in the State’s Healthy Washington Road Map to Recovery Plan. Spokane and the East Region is not one of them.
Moving into phase two means indoor dining at restaurants and theaters are back open, but we will have to wait until at least February until the East Region can get there.
Governor Jay Inslee announced regions only need to meet three of the four metrics to move into phase two, previously it was all four. The West and Puget Sound Regions will be moving into phase two on Monday. Between those two regions alone, they make up about half the population of the State of Washington. In the East region, only two of the four metrics were met.
New Police Station Breaks Ground Virtually
The men and women in blue will be getting a new facility in West Richland, very soon and you can be there! Kinda. The groundbreaking ceremony for the new West Richland Police facility will occur on Thursday, February 4th and you are invited to virtually attend! Due to the Healthy Washington Roadmap to Recovery Phase 1 status, the event is being held on the West Richland Police Department’s Facebook live.
Voters approved a 12.5 million dollar bond to construct and equip a 22,500 square foot building. The City of West Richland purchased the 93-acre “racetrack property”, located near the intersection of Keene and Van Giesen, and plan to make it the new home for the new police facility. The placement of the new facility will be just to the north of the racetrack oval.
Legislators consider bill circumventing Governor Insleeâs phased reopening
Bill aims to reopening Washington businesses
A yoga studio owner responds to the pandemic and the hundreds of thousands in loans she had to take out in order to stay in business during the state s restrictions.
ISSAQUAH, Wash. - A bill circling in Olympia aims to circumvent Governor Jay Inslee’s Healthy Washington Roadmap to Recovery plan that regulates which business can open and when amid an ongoing pandemic.
The legislation would push businesses across the state into Phase 2, and allow most restaurants, gyms, theaters and others, which follow strict guidelines to reopen before the current phased restrictions.