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Gov. Inslee on how Washington is handling the pandemic’s third wave

Nov 27, 2020, 6:39 AM

COVID, seattle...

Jodie Prescott, a nurse, treats a patient in the trauma surgery ICU at Harborview Medical Center on November 26, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. Healthcare workers on the frontline of the Covid-19 pandemic continued their work on the Thanksgiving holiday. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

(Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)

KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross talks with Governor Jay Inslee about Washington’s response to the pandemic. What is hospital capacity like right now? How dire is this third wave? And what do the predictive models tell us about the rest of the holiday season?

Then, reporter Aaron Granillo joins Dave Ross to debrief the interview and look ahead at how we can possibly dig our way out of the dire financial straits this virus has left so many families and businesses in.

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