The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

OLYMPIA-On Monday, May 18, Gov. Jay Inslee announced the state's plan for all elective procedures to resume. Medical and Dental practices will assess their own readiness and their communities' COVID-19 activity to determine whether, and to what degree, they will reopen.

"Our health care system was one of the first in the nation to be hit with COVID-19 cases when there was much we were still learning about the novel virus. Because of the great work of our health care system and communities, we managed the peak of COVID-19 activity in April without having a crisis in our hospitals," Inslee sa...