The outdoor retailer became the latest sporting goods business to grapple with the impact of COVID-19 as it sent its 1,800 employees home and will conduct a deep cleaning of its campuses in Bellevue, Kent and Georgetown. There were two potential exposures that have been classified as low risk. Washington state has seen a spike in reported cases recently, many of them tied to a nursing home in Kirkland. Health officials fear that there could be hundreds of unreported infections in the area so far.

With Nike, Columbia and now REI taking similar precautions, the impact of the coronavirus is starting ... Log in to view full article.