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Washington is shutting down its Covid response website

caption: A 15-minute, at-home Covid test.
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A 15-minute, at-home Covid test.
Dyer Oxley / KUOW

After nearly three years of providing pandemic information, Washington state is shutting down its Covid response website.

According to the website: "Beginning Dec. 1, this website will no longer be available, and users will be redirected to the Washington State Department of Health’s website."

Throughout the Covid pandemic, Washington's website has been a one-stop shop for information about the state's response. It provided a range of information from where to find vaccines, to workplace safety guidelines.

The Department of Health, however, will keep its Covid website going, as well as its Covid dashboard.

The website shutdown is yet another sign that the pandemic has shifted into a new phase. Many of Washington's lingering emergency orders expired at the end of October, bringing to a close pandemic precautions around schools, travel restrictions, and other measures. Gov. Jay Inslee's overall state of emergency also ended.

The Department of Health also recently announced that it is out of free Covid tests, which are provided through sayyescovidhometest.org.

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