Gov. Jay Inslee issued $33 million in financial aid to hard hit areas and to implement a new data calculating method for negative test results. | Stock photo
Gov. Jay Inslee issued $33 million in financial aid to hard hit areas and to implement a new data calculating method for negative test results. | Stock photo
The higher number of COVID-19 cases in North Central Washington State has spurred Gov. Jay Inslee to issue $33 million in financial aid to hard hit areas and to implement a new data calculating method for negative test results.
Inslee recently visited Okanogan County, one of the areas considered a "hotspot" due to reaching 428 Coronavirus cases, which is well above the statewide average of 122 cases. Other areas of concern are Douglas with 625 cases and Chelan with 529 cases, KOMO News reported.
Inslee and state health leaders will use the National Guard to set up mobile testing, allotting $33 million in financial aid for "undocumented workers" who are not able to get state unemployment and reworking the way the coronavirus data is analyzed as a way to tackle the high number of cases.
“This will give us the most current picture of the actual number of COVID-19 tests being done in our state and it will give us a more useful picture of the percent of tests being done now that are positive,” State Health Secretary John Wiseman told KOMO News.
The data change includes adding all of a person's testing results regardless of how many times they were tested.
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