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Health Officials are urging both the vaccinated and unvaccinated to wear masks while indoors due to a prolonged spikes in infections driven by the Delta variant.
Spokane Regional Health Officials are urging the community to mask up while indoors to reduce the spread of more infectious COVID-19 variants.
Credit Rebecca White/SPR The Center for Disease Control is now recommending everyone, vaccinated or not, wear masks while indoors due to an increase in infections driven by the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
Dr. Francisco Velazquez, the Spokane Regional Health District’s interim health officer, said the Delta, as well as other variants, have been detected in Spokane County.
Credit Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
After loosening masking recommendations for vaccinated people, the CDC is now urging people in areas with high COVID-19 case rates to put on a face mask when indoors.
The recommendation comes as the significantly more contagious Delta variant spreads through communities that have much lower vaccination rates. That has led to an increase in hospitalizations for younger people.
According to CDC data, several counties in Eastern Washington have a high rate of COVID-19 spread. Those counties include Spokane, Ferry in Northeast Washington, and most of the Southeast region of the state.
A little more than half of Spokane County residents have had at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Most other counties in Eastern Washington have vaccination rates between 34% and 49%.