Washington teachers, school employees move to head of the vaccine line what’s next? By Dahlia Bazzaz, The Seattle Times
Published: March 4, 2021, 11:40am
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Corinne Barrett was in the middle of grading assignments when a colleague messaged her: “It’s happening.”
Within hours of Gov. Jay Inslee’s Tuesday announcement that school employees and child-care workers could join the ranks of the vaccinated, Barrett, a P.E. and health teacher in the Bellevue School District, hatched a plan.
Before sunrise Wednesday, she was fifth in line outside a walk-in vaccine clinic operated by Sea Mar Community Health Centers in South Seattle. By 8 a.m., she had her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
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 Draws on Private-Sector Experts for Vaccine Rollout
Washington state has partnered with companies and organizations like Starbucks, Microsoft and Costco to more effectively roll out its COVID-19 vaccines through a newly created vaccine command and coordination center. The Starbucks logo. Shutterstock/Photo Oz
In an effort to streamline the delivery of Washington state s COVID-19 vaccines, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Monday the state’s plan to create the Washington State Vaccine Command and Coordination Center to meet a goal of vaccinating 45,000 citizens per day.
The center a statewide public-private partnership consisting of Washington corporations, labor unions, health-care groups and government entities will work together to coordinate all available resources to create an infrastructure to deliver vaccines across the state as efficiently as possible.