Another Inslee Press Conference Thursday Afternoon
From the Governor s office Thursday morning: Gov. Jay Inslee will address the media tomorrow via streaming video and telephone to give an update on the state s response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The governor will be joined for questions by:
Umair Shah, MD, MPH, secretary, Department of Health
Lacy Fehrenbach, deputy secretary for COVID response, Department of Health (Q&A only)
Michele Roberts, assistant secretary, Department of Health (Q&A only)
Nick Streuli, executive director of external affairs, Office of the Governor (Q&A only)
The most compelling part of this will be to hear what s happening with the one week pause he mentioned in his last press conference a couple of weeks ago. Inslee did not elaborate at all if any regions were looking at being dropped back to Phase 1.
The vaccine had already received FDA approval, but had to wait a day or two for the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup. That s the coalition of states (WA, OR, CA, and Nevada) put together by Gov. Inslee that many say actually violates the Federal Constitution.
That discussion is for another day, but now this group has OK d the use of the latest COVID vaccine from Johnson & Johnson-Janssen which will soon begin to work it s way into Washington state.
Like the others, the J-J Vaccine has been given what s called emergency use authorization (EUA) by the FDA.
The Western States Group is, say critics, just an attempt by Gov. Inslee to throw his weight and opinions into the COVID medical and vaccine front. None of the vaccines, policies or procedures put forth by the FDA and examined by this group have been questioned. What is HAS done, however, is cause delays anywhere from 1-4 days in allowing vaccines to begin the process of flowing into our state.
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