February 17, 2021 at 4:50 pm
Frontline workers and staff from the Seattle Indian Health Board (SIHB), pose for a photographer in Seattle. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images).
KIRO Radio’s Dave Ross and reporter Aaron Granillo join up for the last time, after nearly a year of this reporting project.
They’ll discuss the impossible online waitlists for vaccines, and if we’re ready to reopen schools. And, over the past year of this crisis, what story or moment has stuck with Dave and Aaron the most?
This will be the final formal episode of the
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Washington state health leaders say as the state closes in on the 1 million vaccination mark, a new report shows disproportionately low percentages of Hispanic, Black and multiracial people have received it.
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Dr. Dakotah Lane, right, looks on as Dr. Cristina Toledo-Cornell explains possible arm soreness to James Scott after Scott received the first Covid-19 vaccination given to a Lummi Nation tribal member Thursday, December 17, 2020, on the Lummi Reservation, near Bellingham, Washington. The Native American tribe began rationing its first 300 doses of vaccine as it fights surging cases with a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
When the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma began receiving its first doses of Covid-19 vaccines in December, tribal leaders knew exactly who would be getting the first shots.
“We put Cherokee-fluent speakers at the front of the line,” said Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. “Saving the language is in our national interest.”