SEATTLE – Seattle Children’s has hired former U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder of Covington & Burling to examine the hospital’s diversity practices and institutional racism in the hospital system following a prominent doctor’s resignation. After working at the Seattle hospital for over 20 years, Dr. Ben Danielson resigned from his post as medical director at the Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic in December 2020.
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Colleen DAmico (R), a clinical pharmacist with Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB), administers a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the SIHB on Dec. 21, 2020 in Seattle. (Karen Ducey/Getty Images)
OLYMPIA, WA State health officials on Wednesday released a framework for who will qualify for coronavirus vaccines into the spring months.
Right now, Washington remains in a Phase 1A, recently expanded to a second tier that allows certain regions to begin vaccinating all workers in health care settings, in addition to frontline workers, high-risk first responders, and residents and staff of long-term care facilities.
January 6, 2021 at 5:15 pm
Colleen DAmico (R), a clinical pharmacist with Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB), administers a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, to Ryan Gilbert (L), Chief Operating Officer at the SIHB, on Dec. 21, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images).
While Washington state remains in Phase 1A of the COVID-19 vaccination effort at this time, health officials did announce the details of Phase 1B during a weekly update on the state’s response to the pandemic.
The first phase that started in December includes high-risk health care workers in health care settings, high-risk first responders, long-term care facility residents, and recently expanded to all other workers in health care settings.