Clatsop County Health leaders hold joint COVID press conference

The head of the Clatsop County Health Department held a news conference today with head nursing staff from hospitals in Astoria and Seaside, to talk about the renewed and escalating pandemic in the county, fueled by the delta variant. She called the rebounding crisis a “wildfire” that is beyond containment. Joanne Rideout reports.  Scroll down to Listen [4:10] Margo Lalich, interim Clatsop County Health Department Director, said the numbers are rising and so are outbreaks in various settings where people are close together. Margo Lalich: “What is most concerning though about those outbreaks is that they are affecting the vulnerable...