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Sea-Tac Airport: Not screening for virus was big failure

Several weeks ago I heard on the news that airports in California and New York were screening for the COVID-19 virus. I asked myself: “Well, what about Sea-Tac Airport?”

We have just as many people from China on flights coming through Seattle. Why weren’t we doing the same thing here in Washington state?

Like a bad dream, now here we are the epicenter of this virus for the whole nation!

Norma Iwamoto, Tacoma

This story was originally published March 18, 2020 at 4:55 PM with the headline "Sea-Tac Airport: Not screening for virus was big failure."

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