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Businesses are allowed to remain open at 50% capacity in Phase 3. (MyNorthwest photo)
On Tuesday, Snohomish County Health Officer Dr. Chris Spitters warned county residents that the region is on the brink of rolling back to Phase 2 in May. County Councilmember Nate Nehring spoke to KTTH’s Jason Rantz Show to address why he thinks that may not be the right move for local businesses.
In order to remain in Phase 3, large counties need to have 200 or fewer new cases per 100,000 residents over two weeks, and five or fewer hospitalizations per 100,000 residents over the past week. Snohomish County has now crested one of those thresholds, sitting at 205 new cases per 100,000, and is nearing the hospitalization limit at 4.6 per 100,000.
April 20, 2021 at 3:44 pm
Snohomish County is at risk of being one of the next counties to roll back to Phase 2 of reopening when the state re-evaluates COVID-19 data on May 3.
In order to remain in Phase 3, large counties need to have 200 or fewer new cases per 100,000 residents over two weeks and five or fewer hospitalizations per 100,000 residents over the past week. As of Tuesday, Snohomish County has now crested one of those thresholds, sitting at 205 new cases per 100,000.
For new cases, the county has seen its numbers double in less than a month, increasing by over 250% since March’s low of 85 new cases per 100,000. The 950 cases the county saw for the week of April 4 also marked the highest single-week total Snohomish County has seen since the start of the fall and winter wave last November.
The county had to close all but one of its four mass vaccination sites. While they plan to reopen all of them this week, only one was open Monday and Tuesday.