Good Afternoon,
Over the last two days I have participated in several calls and meetings with the health district and healthcare providers regarding the coronavirus. All sources report the virus continues to be most serious for older people with health issues and that healthy children and adults under 60 are much less at risk. Our own student attendance rates are trending about normal and have been worse during prior years when the common flu was in our community. We do recommend Eastmont family members over age 60 who have health issues not attend our events. My own 81 year old father, who has health concerns, has self-quarantined himself given he is in the high risk category for all types of illness.
I had several conversations yesterday with health officials and providers regarding canceling events and delayed a decision on this until today to see if any mandates to do this would be issued. They were not, though our Governor did issue mandatory new rules for nursing homes as well as cancellations of events larger than 250 people for three counties in Western WA.
Based on these conversations, we will continue to hold events as planned through this week. This position will be reviewed on Monday for next week following a scheduled call with our health district. We will also address parent teacher conferences and determine if we need to cancel or modify how those are conducted. I do ask that new school events not be scheduled through the end of this school year given the uncertainty and possible mandates that may involve public school districts. This includes outside groups or agencies wanting to use our facilities, who do not currently have a prior facility use agreement.
Please know an update will be sent out earlier than Monday afternoon if the situation changes. As before, we continue to direct questions to our District coronavirus page, which contains many helpful links.
Regards,
Garn