WSDOT said it could not accept Kittitas County's help clearing snow from SR 903 because the county couldn't guarantee that its workers are vaccinated against COVID.
Washington state racks up one million cases of COVID-19: Nearly two years after our first recorded case of the disease, our state hit the landmark number largely "thanks" to the highly contagious omicron variant, which caused nearly vertical case growth in the past month. According to the Seattle Times, we hit 500,000 cases in August and officially lost over 10,000 Washingtonians to the virus as of last Friday. While there's talk of a rapid drop.
WSDOT said it could not accept Kittitas County's help clearing snow from SR 903 because the county couldn't guarantee that its workers are vaccinated against COVID.