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Is COVID crisis entirely to blame for latest Boeing cuts?

Jul 30, 2020, 2:51 PM | Updated: Oct 7, 2024, 8:49 am

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A worker leaves the Boeing 737 factory in Renton in December. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

(Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images)

Transportation reporter Chris Sullivan joins the show to explain what’s going on inside Boeing with newly announced job and production cuts. Is the coronavirus entirely to blame?

KIRO Radio’s Mike Lewis and reporter Aaron Granillo compare Seattle’s case count to other countries, and Alaska has a new restriction for visitors entering the state.

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