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Crowds were supposed to gather this coming weekend along to commas waterfront for the

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foss waterway seaport maritime weekend but it's canceled due to

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soaring covert cases driven by the delta

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variant and a low county vaccination rate there's such as

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...everything else away county director of health doctor anthony chances the current

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increases a record setter the case rate is now the highest it's been during the...

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dynamic research we hand it's been led by the younger people...but,

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what's more worrisome for us now is that this is pushing down

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into even younger age groups and we're actually starting to seeing more young people get

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hospitalized get very sick doctor china is urging anyone who's eligible to get

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vaccinate he says he hopes the growing list of

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employers requiring vaccinations will help drive up the numbers but there's push back

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in pierce county like from firefighters opposed to governor in sleaze recently announced vaccine

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mandate a group of unions wrote a letter to the governor saying in part

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the decision regarding the vaccine is complex and personal we believe

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our members should retain the ability to make their own decisions on personal

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health matters none of our members can simply be replaced nor should they have to be for making

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a distinctly personal choice the governor's office responded saying workers are missing shifts

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...increasingly high numbers due to exposures and

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...as for win cases and pierce county will start

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to level off doctor chen says they're not there yet because of the speed

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of this surge right now we're still not seen before impact.

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And, that's concerning because the first day of

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class and to come up public schools is september ninth seventeen days away

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so county stills a few weeks to get those numbers down

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before that first day of class live in tacoma ted lamp king five new.