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From YouTube: King County to Require Proof of Vaccination
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Video from King County Public Health.
A
We're
able
to
apply
a
verification
policy
that
will
keep
people
safe
and
keep
businesses
open.
Today,
I'm
announcing
a
new
local
health
order.
It
will
require
proof
of
an
approved
covid,
19
vaccine
or
a
negative
test
to
enter
certain
businesses
and
venues
beginning
on
october
25th,
our
public
health
officer,
dr
jeff
duchen,
will
provide
details
in
a
moment,
but
this
health
order
will
apply
to
these
main
categories:
outdoor,
recreational
and
entertainment
events
with
500
or
more
people.
A
B
The
delta
variant
has
fundamentally
changed
the
course
of
our
covent
19
outbreak
and
how
we
must
respond
to
it.
The
virus
is
airborne
and
it's
wickedly
contagious
more
infectious
than
earlier
variants.
It
spreads
readily
indoors
and
when
masks
are
not
worn,
causes
serious
illness
and
is
not
adequately
controlled.
B
Washington
state
is
experiencing
all-time
high
levels
of
covet-19
cases
and
hospitalizations
in
king
county.
We
contin.
We
continue
to
experience
high
rates
of
community
coven
19
transmission
with
hospitalizations
at
their
highest
level
since
january
and
deaths
are
increasing
covert.
19
case
rates
are
highest
in
18
to
49
year
olds
and
unvaccinated
people
are
at
greatest
risk,
especially
for
severe
illness.
B
Last
week,
154
king
county
residents
were
hospitalized
on
average
with
covet
19..
That's
one
person
hospitalized
every
hour.
One
king
county
resident
is
currently
dying
from
covid
19.
Every
eight
hours
over
the
past
30
days
in
king
county
compared
to
vaccinated
people
unvaccinated
were
seven
times
more
likely
to
be
diagnosed
with
covet
19
41
times
more
likely
to
be
hospitalized
and
42
times
more
likely
to
die
from
coven
19
related
illness.
B
B
B
On
the
other
hand,
ihme
concludes
that
vaccine
verification
in
king
county
will
prevent
substantial
numbers
of
infections,
hospitalizations
and
deaths
over
the
next
six
months.
Ihme
estimates
that
vaccine
verification
at
restaurants,
bars
and
gyms
alone
could
prevent
between
seventeen
thousand
nine
hundred
and
seventy
five
thousand
nine
hundred
infections
between
four
hundred
and
twenty
one
and
seventeen
hundred
and
sixty
hospitalizations
between
63
and
257
deaths,
that's
preventing
between
10
and
43
deaths
on
average
each
munch
each
month
from
vaccine
verification,
restaurants,
bars
and
gyms
alone.
B
B
Most
importantly,
we
need
to
pay
attention
to
the
number
of
serious
infections
and
the
resulting
threat.
Our
hospitals
are
facing
and
safeguard
our
health
care
system.
So
you
can
get
the
care
you
need,
including
life-saving
care
when
you
need
it
and
whatever
you
need
it
for
whether
it's
covet
19
for
a
heart
attack,
a
stroke,
cancer
care
or
a
serious
accident.
B
These
requirements
will
go
into
effect
on
october
25th
for
outdoor
venues
and
the
majority
of
the
indoor
establishments
and
december
6
for
restaurants,
with
seating
capacity
of
12
or
fewer,
who
need
extra
time,
and
this
gives
people
time
to
start
their
vaccination
series
or
complete
their
vaccination
series,
and
it
gives
venues
time
to
prepare
vaccination.
Verification
requirements
will
reduce
the
spread
of
coven
19
in
high-risk
public
settings,
prevent
covet
19
cases,
hospitalizations
and
deaths,
and
help
stabilize
the
health
care
system
and
return
patient
loads
to
more
manageable
levels.
B
It
will
make
businesses
and
other
public
venues
safer
for
cons
for
customers
and
workers
and
our
community
and
by
decreasing,
covet
19
spread.
It
will
also
decrease
the
risk
to
our
children,
and
this
is
especially
important
until
vaccine
becomes
available
for
those
5
to
12
years
of
age,
which
should
happen
sometime.
This
fall.
B
I
want
to
be
clear
that
this
order
is
not
intended
to
be
permanent.
It
will
be
reviewed
periodically,
based
on
outbreak
conditions
and
no
later
than
six
months
after
the
october
25th
implementation
date
to
assess
its
continued
need,
but
it
will
likely
be
needed
until
disease
rates
come
down.
Hospitalizations
are
at
a
more
manageable
and
stable
level
for
our
health
care
system
and
more
adults
and
children
are
vaccinated
and
protected
from
serious
infections.
B
The
future
course
of
the
pandemic
is
uncertain.
Ultimately,
its
impact
on
our
lives
will
diminish
and
we
will
live
with
this
virus
while
limiting
its
impact
on
our
health.
Our
ability
to
do
the
activities
we
value
and
on
our
schools,
our
businesses
and
our
economy,
but
covet
19
is
not
going
away
soon
and
we
are
entering
what
could
be
a
very
rough
fall
and
winter
with
levels
of
transmission
that
are
way
too
high
right
now,
along
with
wearing
good
quality.
B
Well
fitting
face
masks
in
public,
improving
indoor
air
through
ventilation,
filtration
and
uv
technology
through
distancing
and
limiting
high
risk
activities.
Vaccine
verification
will
further
reduce
infections
and
hospitalizations
save
lives
and
help
get
us
where
we
all
want
to
be
sooner
and
more
safely.
C
Thank
you,
jeff.
Thank
you,
executive
constantine.
You
know
from
the
very
beginning
of
this
pandemic,
the
city,
the
county,
public
health,
the
state,
the
state
department
of
health
have
been
connected
and
speaking
with
one
voice,
but
we
wouldn't
be
able
to
do
it
without
the
residents
and
businesses.
The
health
care
workers
of
this
great
city
in
this
great
region-
and
we
are
here
today
to
continue
the
partnership
with
those
partnerships
and
to
keep
seattle
and
king
county
safe.
C
C
We
had
to
decide
how
to
respond
to
this
once
in
a
generation
challenge.
So
we
innovated
we
secured
testing
supplies
from
our
international
partners.
We
entered
the
hunger
games
to
make
sure
our
health
care
workers
could
have
ppe
and
the
supplies
they
needed.
We
launched
a
national
leading
testing
program
and
infrastructure
that
passed
over
a
million
tests.
This
week
we
also
launched
vaccination
efforts
that
reached
hundreds
of
thousands
of
seat
lights
and
made
sure
it
was
based
on
equity,
so
those
communities
hit
hardest
by
covid19,
both
economically
and
health-wise.
C
Our
communities
of
color
would
not
be
left
behind
on
vaccines
and
we
did
it
with
great
partners.
Swedish
hospital
lumen
field,
community-based
organizations
that
did
pop-up
clinics.
We
pulled
together
to
do
what
was
right
and
thanks
to
this
work,
seattle
continues
to
be
the
city
in
the
country
that
is
the
safest
place
to
be.
C
C
We
know
this
vaccine
works
people,
they
people
without
vaccine
are
41
times
more
likely
to
be
hospitalized
41
times
42
times
more
likely
to
die
of
covet
19,
and
we
also
know
where
transmission
happens.
It
happens
in
indoor
spaces
where
people
aren't
mass
and
they're
close
together.
Despite
this
beautiful
weather.
Today,
it's
seattle
folks,
the
rains
are
coming,
we
will
be
going
inside,
we
need
to
be
safe.
C
No
one
wants
to
go
backwards,
and
this
is
a
way
for
us
to
continue
to
go
forwards.
It's
the
right
thing
to
do,
for
our
businesses,
for
our
small
business
owners,
for
our
economy
and
for
our
health
care
workers,
so
you
will
hear
a
few
of
them
if
you've
been
watching
the
news,
some
states
like
idaho
and
montana
their
er
rooms
are
filled
up.
C
C
We
know
that
this
virus
is
dangerous,
it's
voracious
and
it
innovates,
and
we
have
to
be
smarter
and
innovate
more
quickly.
This
is
something
that
everybody
can
do,
and
so
you
know
in
brief.
If
you
want
to
protect
yourself,
you
want
to
protect
your
family.
You
want
to
protect
the
kids
in
schools
and
their
teachers.
You
want
to
protect
our
health
care
workers.
It's
all
the
same
answer
get
the
damn
shot.
Thank
you
with
that.
I
want
to
introduce
cassie
sauer.
D
Hi
good
afternoon,
I'm
cassie
sauer
and
I'm
the
ceo
of
the
washington
state
hospital
association,
and
I
want
to
start
by
expressing
just
enormous
gratitude
to
dr
duchen
executive
constantine
and
mayor
durkin
for
this
order.
We
think
it
is
so
visionary
and
so
looking
into
the
future
and
making
sure
that
our
hospital
system
is
protected.
D
Hospitals
all
across
the
state
are
under
extreme
strain
right
now.
People
are
losing
access
to
care
that
they
need.
We
are
delaying
care
for
things
like
cancerous
tumors
spine
surgery,
colostomy
reversals,
all
kinds
of
things
are
being
delayed
right
now
and
it's
a
very
serious
situation.
We're
watching
our
neighbors,
we're
ringed
by
states
right
now
that
have
gone
into
crisis
standards
of
care
crisis
standards
is
rationing
care,
it's
choosing
who
lives
and
dies
based
on
the
amount
of
resources
you
have.
We
want
to
do
everything
we
can
in
this
state
to
not
have
that
happen.
D
This
should
not
be
happening
in
america
today,
with
a
pandemic
that
we
can
see
coming
and
is
preventable,
and
so
the
kind
of
action
that's
being
taken
here
today
by
our
county
is
tremendous.
We
call
on
other
counties
to
take
the
same
action.
It
will
be
very
helpful
to
prevent
the
spread
of
covid,
which
leads
to
hospitalizations
and
the
huge
strain
on
hospitals
and
deaths,
so
really
just
huge
thanks
to
the
this
county
and
urge
others
to
do
the
same.
D
I'd
like
to
introduce
heather
lykins,
who
is
a
critical
care
nurse
and
has
been
on
the
front
lines
of
covid
she's.
Also
a
member
of
the
washington
state,
nurses,
association
and
she
is
here
representing
the
thousands
of
healthcare
workers
that
are
on
the
front
lines
doing
this
every
day
and
so
so
heroic
and
so
exhausted
from
this
pandemic.
So
heather.
E
My
name's
heather
likens
and
I'm
proud
to
be
a
critical
care
nurse
here
in
seattle
and
a
member
of
the
washington
state
nurses,
association,
hospitals
across
the
state
are
struggling
to
keep
up
with
the
influx
of
unvaccinated
patients
that
enter
their
doors
every
day
and
it
is
stretching
healthcare
workers.
Like
me
to
our
breaking
point
working
in
the
intensive
care
unit
at
my
hospital,
I
need
to
be
available
to
my
patients
in
an
instant,
providing
life-saving,
life-saving
treatments
and
reacting
quickly
in
emergency
situations.
E
E
E
It's
my
duty
to
treat
these
patients
the
same
regardless
of
their
vaccination
status,
but
it
gets
harder
and
harder
every
day
to
look
into
the
eyes
of
my
patients,
their
families
and
my
coworkers
and
pretend
like
it's
all
going
to
be
okay,
more
and
more
frequently,
I'm
expected
to
do
the
impossible
and
be
in
10
places
at
once,
because
hospitals
are
so
understaffed.
Nurses,
like
me,
are
often
unable
to
give
our
patients
the
care
they
deserve
in
their
most
desperate
moments.
E
Throughout
this
pandemic,
healthcare
workers
have
become
exhausted.
Angry
traumatized
many
have
chosen
to
leave
the
workforce
to
focus
on
their
own
personal
health.
Those
of
us
who
remain
want
to
continue
caring
for
you
and
your
loved
ones,
but
we
can't
do
it
alone.
We
need
everyone's
help
to
reduce
cobia
19
cases
so
that
we
can
continue
to
care
for
every
single
patient.
E
E
F
F
We
learned
so
many
life
lessons
working
with
her
in
the
kitchen
and
she
had
a
unique
gift
of
making
sure
everyone
felt
welcome.
A
key
part
of
feeling
welcome
is
feeling
safe
at
nana's.
We
have
an
opportunity
now
with
the
vaccine
verification
mandate
to
continue
to
personify
the
great
legacy
of
my
great
grandma.
F
If
you
make
a
decision
not
to
disclose
your
vaccine
status
vaccinate
the
status
or
you
choose
not
to
disclose
that
information,
you
will
continue
to
be
served
via
takeout,
a
world-class
takeout
experience,
one
that
we
feel
like
we
frankly
mastered
over
the
last
18
months.
I
mentioned
my
great
grandma.
She
taught
us
so
many
life
lessons.
F
G
Obviously
we
wanted
to
reopen
our
industry
get
artists
and
arts
workers
back
to
work
after
a
long
time
off,
and
we
also
had
to
consider
our
obligations
to
public
health
as
a
community
arts
organization,
incredibly
complex
time
to
be
reopening
this
business,
but
ultimately
a
simple
decision
for
us.
Taking
this
action
mitigates
risk.
It
mitigates
risk
of
a
terrible
public
health
scenario
and
it
mitigates
risk
of
us
having
to
shut
down
again.
We've
been
shut
down.
We
don't
want
to
do
that
again.