Whatcom’s COVID numbers improving, but ‘million dollar question’ is when will we reopen?

With the number of new COVID-19 cases decreasing and the county inching toward the state’s threshold of 25 new cases per 100,000 over the past two weeks, Whatcom County Health Department Director Erika Lautenbach admitted “the ongoing million dollar question” is when can the county begin to lighten more restrictions.

Unfortunately, Lautenbach said during an online health department briefing Tuesday, Aug. 25, she doesn’t have a good answer.