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Nearly 150 employees have been positive for Covid-19 since the end of December to a single Costco establishment in Washington, but Yakima warehouse remains open.

In a response to 68 positive testing employees, the Yakima Health District "led a on-site visit on December 23, 2020 and concluded that there was no increased risk of CVIV-19 transmission to the public that staff and customers continue to follow safety precautions, "he says in aDecember 24: Press release. However, this number quickly doubled - and at least 145 employees were infected. (To stay healthy right now, here'sVitamin doctors exhort everyone to take right now.)

"The 145 positive tested people are currently completing their period of isolation or quarantine," the group said inA follow-up press release on December 29. "After reviewing the number of cases, and the chronology in which they have been identified, there is evidence to show that this strong increase in business imitates the type of activity that occurs after a kind of Event Superspreader where many people are infected at the same time.. "

Advanced forward, Yakima's health district recommended to COSTO conduct weekly tests on a weekly scale - even for those who have not had close contact with another individual with COVID-19. But the group did not recommend closing the store.

"The other community companies that have been closed after identifying positive CVIV-19 cases have decided to do so by themselves, from abundance of caution, and not the recommendation to close from the health district From Yakima, "he said.

Eat this, not that!Contacted Costco to comment on Covid-19 hatch in Yakima.

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