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How COVID-19 infections are shaping up statewide

caption: Following repeated encounters with a pasta factory employee who tested positive for COVID-19 and refused to self isolate - or stop driving under the influence - six Spokane police officers are in quarantine due to their exposure to the virus.
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Following repeated encounters with a pasta factory employee who tested positive for COVID-19 and refused to self isolate - or stop driving under the influence - six Spokane police officers are in quarantine due to their exposure to the virus.
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The coronavirus pandemic looks much different in the rest of Washington.

Cases of COVID-19 are spiking in Yakima’s agricultural industry even as the Spokane Valley begins to think of it as the pandemic that wasn’t.

Bill Radke spoke with Northwest Public Broadcasting’s Enrique Perez de la Rosa and Nick Deshais about farmworker protests, the uneven return to business as semi-normal, and a pasta factory employee on the loose.

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