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The time is NOW to practice good hygiene and keep your distance: Communicating Social Distancing is the top priority of health officials and a message we cannot stress enough. Pease respect the six feet apart rule in both work and personal life. Hot Handwashing Tip: Fleetwood Mac, “Landslide” Sing chorus: “Well, I’ve been afraid ofContinue reading “March 27th, COVID Update”

The time is NOW to practice good hygiene and keep your distance: Communicating Social Distancing is the top priority of health officials and a message we cannot stress enough. Pease respect the six feet apart rule in both work and personal life. Hot Handwashing Tip: Sing Bon Jovi’s- “Livin’ On A Prayer” while washing yourContinue reading “March 26th, COVID Update”

The time is NOW to practice good hygiene and keep your distance: Please remember that the two most important things to do during this time is practice good hygiene (fingers crossed you were doing this before a global pandemic) and keep your social distance (at home and at work).  We are still seeing some employeesContinue reading “March 25th, COVID Update”

On March 23rd as anticipated, Governor Jay Inslee announced a state-wide, “Stay at Home, Stay Healthy” proclamation for the State of Washington. Here’s what the order means for the state’s 7.5 million residents: All residents must stay at home unless they are pursuing an essential activity, such as shopping for groceries, going to a doctor’sContinue reading “March 24th, COVID Update”

Today Oregon Governor Kate Brown issued a state-wide Shelter-In-Place, establishing legally enforceable restrictions on public activity. Cowlitz County officials are preparing for Governor Jay Inslee to announce similar action at his press conference that will be taking place tonight at 5:30pm. Senior Staff continues to monitor and stay up-to-date on federal, state and county-wide changesContinue reading “March 23rd, COVID Update”

There are a lot of rumblings about preparing for a state-wide shelter in place that could possibly be enacted over the weekend. The Shelter in Place intervention is a more extreme measure of social distancing, which reduces occasions for person-to-person virus transmission to help delay the spread and slow the exponential growth of a pandemic.Continue reading “March 20th, COVID Update”

After today’s COVID-19 update meeting all employees should have received the guidelines for employees in the case of exposure, safety memo for field personnel and an update from Human Resources outlining some modifications to the Supplemental and Pandemic Leave Authorization. If you have not received those items, look for them in your inbox or reachContinue reading “March 19th, COVID Update”

At today’s daily COVID-19 update meeting we reviewed a number of documents in regards to COVID-19 exposure guidance, as well as minor edits to the COVID-19 supplemental leave authorization. These documents will be finalized and sent out by tomorrow afternoon.  We continue to work on the expansion of social distancing. As communicated yesterday, it’s importantContinue reading “March 18th COVID Update”

Not a lot has changed from yesterday. What does seem to be changing is a more organized and community-based approach on our County’s coordination of public agencies, cities and others. As of today, there have been no positive COVID cases in Cowlitz County. The patient from Lewis County, who tested positive was released to theirContinue reading “March 17th COVID Update”

Senior Staff will continue to meet daily as this is a rapidly evolving situation. Sending communications out at the end of each day will be the goal. Today the County called together a meeting for public agencies, cities, etc. to stay informed and will continue to meet daily. The county is issuing a news releaseContinue reading “March 16th COVID Update”