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Ex. MET-SEA-036 Order Primary source read

Joint recommendation of the regional health officers: universal indoor masking regardless of vaccination status

Region's top health officials issue unified advice: Everyone should mask up in indoor public spaces

Local health officers of eight Puget Sound counties (joint statement published by Public Health - Seattle & King County); joined by all 35 local health jurisdictions Aug. 12, 2021 · King, Pierce, Snohomish, Kitsap, Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson and San Juan Counties, Washington (County)

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Jurisdiction
King, Pierce, Snohomish, Kitsap, Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson and San Juan Counties, Washington · Seattle · Washington
Level
County
Authority
RCW 70.05.070 (recommendation, not an order)
Issued
2021-07-26 July 26, 2021
Effective
2021-07-26 (recommendation); made mandatory statewide by SOH Order 20-03.4 effective Aug. 23, 2021 and in King County by order effective Sept. 7, 2021 (MET-SEA-002) (read as 2021-07-26)
End
Superseded by the orders that followed (read as 2021-09-30)
In force
July 26, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
Quarters
2021 Q3
Limitation types
Face-covering requirement
Addressees
  • all residents of the eight counties, including customers and workers
Functions reached
  • SF
  • CB
  • EMP
Collection
Seattle MET-SEA

Operative words

We recommend all residents wear facial coverings when in indoor public settings where the vaccination status of those around you is unknown. This step will help reduce the risk of COVID-19 to the public, including customers and workers, help stem the increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in many parts of the state, and decrease the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant.

Enforcement

None (recommendation)

Notes

Recommendation only; catalogued because it is the Pierce and Snohomish health officers' own Q3 2021 position and the predicate the State and King County orders recite. Never to be cited as an order.

Retrieval note

Recommendation, not an order.