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Models used by Whatcom County to plan local response to the COVID-19 pandemic show the region may be past an initial wave of coronavirus infections, but policy decisions and residents’ individual choices will be paramount in determining whether there will be any future peaks.

“We are seeing signs that we are on the downside of the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak,” Whatcom County Health Department Director Erika Lautenbach said during an online press briefing Monday about the model county leaders are using.