Case numbers have been climbing again in some parts of the state, but hospitalization and fatality rates are not increasing at the same rates. Inslee maintained that Washington’s approach to the pandemic has clearly been very successful.
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“If we had the same death rate as say Mississippi, we would have had another 19,000 people lose their lives in Washington,” Inslee told Bill Radke of Seattle public radio station KUOW. The governor noted that’s enough people to fill the Climate Pledge Arena at Seattle Center.
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