Despite COVID-19 cases rising statewide, health officials say that a mask mandate isn’t likely to return anytime time.
King County health officer provides context behind recent rise in COVID cases
Washington’s seven-day rolling average for daily cases as of early April sat around 680, up from the low of 440 the state saw around the time its indoor mask mandate lifted in late March. Despite that recent uptick, though, state epidemiologist Dr. Mike Lindquist says that a return to mandates isn’t “in our best interest.”
“I think what’s pretty clear is the public is pretty tired of mandates, and so I think us (we) really need to use that
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