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SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports. There are signs that Covid pandemic life is moving closer to what used to be normal. Dan Barth from Frontier Behavioral Health in Spokane says that became clear to him last weekend at a cafe in Spokane Valley. “There was a group of women, there was five of them sitting on a couch. They were all obviously vaccinated. They didn’t have to wear masks. They were sitting there socializing and they were talking about what they’d been through over the last year and they were laughing and it gave me a sense that the trajectory of where we are on seemed to be a good one, he said. ....
Spokane County health officials today [Wednesday] urged people to get vaccinated against Covid, as the country trails behind the state average for ....
SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports. Spokane County’s chances of staying in Phase 3 of Washington’s coronavirus reopening protocol beyond the first week of May are becoming more tenuous. Interim Health Officer Francisco Velazquez says the county is failing one of the two metrics state officials consider when evaluating counties’ progress. That’s the two-week case rate. The county is at 295 cases per 100-thousand residents, well above the state’s acceptable standard of 200. In the other metric, hospitalizations, he says the county is teetering around the acceptable level of 5%. “We’ve gone over 5% a couple of times. We were at 5.3% Tuesday. So we’ve fluctuated around that 5%, that magical number, for hospitalization. Our case rate is high. It’s going to be hard to bring it back below 200. We’re going to have to do some work on that. So it’s not clear if we’re going to be able to continue on Phase 3, he said. ....
Credit Courtesy of Washington Department of Health Washington state health officials say nearly one million residents have received at least one of the Covid 19 vaccinations in the state. That s a major mile marker as they push to meet a goal of vaccinating 45,000 per day. Even so, they say they are seeing inequity in the number of minorities who are receiving the shots. A new report says Hispanics make up 4.7% of those who have received one dose of vaccine, and 5.9% who are now fully vaccinated. That s a lower figure than the state s Hispanic population, 13.2%. Washington Health Secretary Umair Shah says there are likely several reasons for the disparity. ....