Mass COVID-19 vaccination site opens at Clark County Event Center
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
FILE A CVS staff member prepares the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Rose Villa Senior Living in Oak Grove, just outside of Portland, on December 21, 2020. Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian
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By Wyatt Stayner | The Columbian
Clark County’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site opened at 9 a.m. Tuesday morning, but all available appointments at the site this week were taken by early Monday morning.
The site, at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds, will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays.
Limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccines mean thousands of Clark County residents might have to wait longer to receive doses through local health care providers.
Washington jobless struggle in benefits limbo
Woman unemployed since November still awaiting for money By Will Campbell, Columbian Assistant Metro Editor
Published: January 21, 2021, 6:44pm
Share: On Dec. 5, about 1.8 percent of Washingtonians, about 27,000 people, who had filed for unemployment since March were still waiting for ESD to resolve their claims. In early December, the ESD took about 10 weeks on average to resolve complex cases. (isStock.com)
Aurora Tapia lost her sense of taste a week before she tested positive for COVID-19 on Nov. 13.
She suspects that she contracted the virus from her job at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, where she worked as a patient access representative. It was the most recent job she’s held.
Documents detail fatal Vancouver police shooting in October
Review to make determination on officers’ use of force By Jerzy Shedlock, Columbian Breaking News Reporter
Published: January 21, 2021, 6:26pm
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2 Photos The October shooting unfolded in the area of the Parc Central apartments in Vancouver s Rose Village neighborhood. (amanda cowan/The Columbian files) Photo Gallery
Investigative documents paint a clearer picture of the Oct. 4 Vancouver police shooting that resulted in the death of Andrew A. Williams, a 41-year-old homeless man with a history of drug use and run-ins with law enforcement.
Williams was in an on-and-off relationship with a woman he stabbed with a screwdriver on the night he was shot.