COVID-19 to put WA school districts to test; families advised to model safe behavior
Sep. 2—State health officials on Thursday devoted most of their COVID-19 response update to reassuring parents that schools could start safely amid the state's fifth wave of cases.
There were warning signs about the road ahead for everyone as hospitals statewide continue to be "stressed, strained and stretched," along with facing staff shortages, as state Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah described it.
"We are absolutely at a critical time in our health care system," Shah said at the news briefing. "Eventually when you have a rubber band and it stretches, it does break. I mean there is a point where our system cannot continue to go in the mode of stretching, stretching, stretching, especially at a time of staff shortages."
All of which, the officials noted, made it more critical that families model COVID risk mitigation behavior as kids head back to school, avoiding crowds and masking when around others from outside the home — a tall task as the state heads into Labor Day weekend.
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