Incoming call from a contact tracer: what next?
To say that someone unidentified may have exposed you to coronavirus. Also, this week’s chat with Mayor Jenny Durkan and a look at how the pandemic is unfolding across the state.
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Contact tracer calling
Over the course of the next few months, you may get the call that all of us are dreading: you’ve been exposed to COVID-19. To hear what happens on those calls and who’s making them, we spoke to Pierce County Health Department contact tracing trainer Kim Steele-Peter.
Mayor Jenny Durkan 5.28
The governor is still being coy, but it seems vanishingly likely that King County will be moving into Phase 2 of his stay at home de-escalation strategy. As surrounding counties frolic off into the socially distant parks of yore, we asked Mayor Jenny Durkan what things will look like in Seattle.
Enrique Perez de la Rosa + Nick Deshais
The coronavirus pandemic looks much different in the rest of Washington, with cases 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 about the rest of the state with Northwest Public Broadcasting’s Enrique Perez de la Rosa and Nick Deshais.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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