Dori: Will KC health director appointee push for mask mandate return after St. Louis finger-flip fray?

By the end of this summer, Dr. Faisal Khan expects to be approved by the King County Council as the region’s next director of Public Health — Seattle & King County. It is the ninth largest health department in the country.

Local eyes will be on Khan, 46, who comes from Missouri where he was acting director of the St. Louis County Department of Public Health since February 2021. Leaders there opted not to confirm Khan as permanent director after an incident in which he acknowledged “using my middle finger” to flip off his opponents after a public meeting.

While in his acting health director role in St. Louis,

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