A MOTION requesting the executive to contract with the University of Washington to conduct a retrospective analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 and the actions taken by King County leaders and public health - Seattle & King County to limit the spread of the virus.
I can have a contract with the U dub and they would be requested to conduct a retrospective analysis, the focus of which would be the effectiveness of actions taken by King County leaders and public health Seattle King County to limit the spread of the virus. The study is intended to be conducted with participation by public health and organizations that were directly that are directly involved in the COVID 19 response in King County. Examples of such organizations include the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Gates Foundation. Motion Request The Executive transmit a report to council based on the retrospective analysis and have it filed by June 30th of 2021. And that concludes my remarks. Happy to answer any questions. And we also have Karen Gill available for questions as well. Questions for Ms.. Porter. Cancer Council member, Don. As the sponsor. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, thanks for the briefing. This is coming up a little more quickly than I was ready for in terms of full consideration. And so like the prior item, I'm going to ask that we have a little more time to discuss this. There is some overlap with the what the internal auditor's office may be doing, but I think there's a lot of success stories that can be told and what we did and also a lot of lessons learned relative to our early and midway responses to the pandemic. This was designed to be a long term study. As you as you heard, the reporting deadline is more than a year away. And so I wanted to have a briefing. I wanted to have people have a chance to ask questions. And I'd like to go back and talk with the relevant players to make sure there's not overlap before we actually take a vote, if the chair would allow it. Happy to have conversation questions today. And if there's no emotion, there's no motion. Questions. Well, what is it? I would ask. What is the time frame for when the motion proposes to begin its study and look back? Is it upon enactment or is it. Once a vaccine is developed? At what point when Washington State hits phase four, is there a trigger for when we look back? I can answer that. I'm going to go ahead now. All right. The motion is not specific about when the retrospective analysis would begin. It indicates that the analysis should begin far enough time in the future that experts are able to effectively analyze the pandemic response. Thank you. Clearly, if this thing drags on for three years, then it's a different it's a it's a different time frame. Part of the reason for the genesis of this is I want to make sure that we are all all of all of the various agencies involved taking copious notes and collecting data so that we can really properly study this and have some empirical data. It's been 100 years since the last pandemic really hit the United States, but it could be ten years or five years or 20 years. And the ability to collect data and learn a lot of information is useful not only in the short term, but it's also useful in the long term. So I'd certainly be open to suggestions, but I don't intend at this time to make a motion. Appreciate the chair very much putting it on the agenda as quickly as as he did and would look forward to working with my colleagues a little more and also specifically the executive branch of government. And hearing no more questions will advanced eight in 2020 183, which asks the Office of Emergency Management and Public Health to update all of the county's emergency management plans to address the risks of pandemics. Jake Tracy will revisit the motion.