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Seventy percent of Airway Heights Corrections Center’s inmate population have tested positive for COVID-19 and almost all those cases were recorded this month.
Seventy percent of Airway Heights Corrections Centerâs inmate population have tested positive for COVID-19 and almost all those cases were recorded this month.
Thatâs 1,307 prisoners who have tested positive. Airway Heights is one of a dozen state prisons, but cases there account for a third of all the cases among all Washington state prisoners. On top of that 155 staff members at the prison have tested positive.
One Airway Heights inmate died last week. The Department of Corrections has not posted the number of inmates hospitalized from the West Plains facility.
When less than a third had tested positive in early December, inmate Tobin Sather described âdecayingâ conditions. In the gym where the sick were housed, 145 COVID-positive men shared four toilets, according to the Department of Corrections.
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The initial deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to Oregon, Washington state and Idaho are spoken for at least well into next month. High-risk health care workers, EMT/paramedics and nursing homes have top priority to get the vaccine jab. But then who?
Outgoing Washington Secretary of Health John Wiesman said many, many industry groups sent him emails to make their case. Likewise, the Oregon Health Authority reported getting lots of entreaties from industry, labor unions, interest groups and other entities. We feel torn, Wiesman said during a briefing last week. There is limited vaccine and we need to do the best decision making we can with the data we have and the values that are out there in terms of trying to share equitable access.