Washington's 'hospital czar': 'We're not out of the woods yet'

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OLYMPIA — Social distancing has been effective at slowing the onslaught of the novel coronavirus, the state's leader in the effort to fight it says. But resurrecting the state's economy will need to occur incrementally and with copious testing, retired Vice Adm. Raquel "Rocky" Bono cautions.

"It's not a question of if, but when novel coronavirus will resurge," said Bono, tapped by Gov. Jay Inslee to be Washington's director of COVID-19 health system response management. "A metered response predicated on a level of readiness ... has to be demonstrated."

Think of it as turning a dial rather than flipping a switch, she said in an exclusive interview with the Kitsap Sun, echoing a phrase Inslee has used.

That means testing — and lots of it. Bono said the state is on the cusp making coronavirus testing widely available. Currently, around 1,000 people a day are tested, but capacity has grown to 14,000 a day, she said. It will require a Herculean effort by state and local government and businesses to ensure Washingtonians returning to the public can be tested multiple times.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/washingtons-hospital-czar-were-not-out-of-the-woods-yet/ar-BB12QBuj

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1. I did not even know we had a hospital czar

but Rocky Bono seems to know what she is talking apout.