On Monday, May 4, the Whatcom County Health Department held a media briefing to provide an update on the department’s COVID-19 response including:
- Recognition of hardship maintaining Stay Home, Stay Healthy
- Recent actions of Whatcom Unified Command and the Whatcom County Health Department
- Local testing capacity
- Creation of a new COVID-19 Employer Task Force
- Importance of complying with the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order
- Newly identified COVID-19 symptoms