OLYMPIA, Wash. — Governor Jay Inslee announced a new reopening plan for the state of Washington, which will go into effect on January 11. “Healthy Washington” includes a small resumption of some activities across the state, including live entertainment with tight capacity restrictions and certain fitness programs. The new plan will include additional phases and be organized by region instead.
SPOKANE, Wash.– Local and state health experts share a sense of optimism as Washington’s COVID-19 data slowly improves.
But, that data can take a turn for the worst with gatherings on Christmas and other upcoming holidays.
“We want to keep things outdoors as much as possible, we want to remember the three W’s wear a mask, wash our hands and watch our distance but we also want to remember to get tested,” said Secretary of Health, Dr. Umair Shah.
That’s why the State Department of Health is suggesting you swap out those gatherings for a virtual or outdoor activity.
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December 23, 2020 3:15 PM Connor Sarles
- Question: What do we know about the similarities and differences between the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines?
- Expert: Paul Spearman, MD, Professor and Director of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
- Date: Nov. 17
“The Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines are both mRNA vaccines and both cause the body to make a viral protein that SARS-CoV-2 uses to invade human cells. They both utilize a delivery and preservation technique to encase the RNA in the vaccine with lipid (fat) molecules, and these are likely somewhat different between the two vaccines. Both vaccines showed promise in creating an immune response in earlier trials and now both protect at a greater than 90% level in interim analyses. One difference that may become important is the temperature of storage, with the Pfizer product requiring -70 degree Celsius storage and Moderna reporting stability at -20 degrees Celsius. M
CDC chooses next groups to receive COVID-19 vaccine
December 22, 2020 6:45 PM Maher Kawash
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SPOKANE, Wash.– Each day offers another step forward for the U.S. as two vaccines are now being sent out to the entire nation.
Phase 1a of this vaccine rollout is still expected to take another few weeks, and then shots will go in arms for those in phase 1b, which are first responders and those older than 75.
The CDC also approved phase 1c which will be people between 65 and 75 years old, as well as anyone with high-risk conditions between 16 and 64 years old.
Then, you have the other essential workers in phase 1c; that includes anyone in education, food, manufacturing, transportation, public safety and the media.
Jubilant Hollisterstier manufacturing COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics in Spokane
December 18, 2020 7:03 PM Maher Kawash
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The company is creating two COVID-19 vaccines at its Spokane location and another at its Montreal location.
Hollisterstier is no stranger to playing a critical role in fighting a virus just look back to H1N1.
“We played a pretty large role at that point in time as well, and we made roughly around 20 million doses,” said Hollisterstier president, Amit Arora.
They can’t tell us which three companies they are manufacturing vaccines for.
But, those companies send them the active ingredient in frozen or liquid form, and then Hollisterstier handles the rest before shipping it back as a complete vaccine.