Who is eligible to get a shot?
The District is currently at the beginning of Phase 1b, as described in its coronavirus vaccination plan. That means D.C. is currently vaccinating frontline workers in health care settings; staff and residents in congregate care settings like nursing homes and homeless shelters; first responders; teachers and other K-12 education staff; and D.C. residents ages 65 and older.
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If you have general questions or even concerns about the coronavirus vaccine, D.C. has information here about who should get vaccinated, how the different individual vaccines work, and why they re considered safe.
Hospitals around the Northwest are busy vaccinating their highest-risk employees.
The Providence Health System in Spokane began that work last Friday. Spokeswoman Beth Hegde says inoculations will continue all week at Sacred Heart.
In western Washington, the CHI Franciscan Health System says it has vaccinated about 2,500 staff members since the middle of last week.
Some of the state’s smallest health care providers are relying on larger partners to protect their high-risk workers. In central Washington, for example, Confluence Health in Wenatchee is working with Cascade Medical Center in Leavenworth.
“Confluence received the Pfizer vaccine and they have helped vaccinate 21 of our employees who are in the high-risk category. We feel really grateful for that, said Diane Blake, the CEO of Cascade Medical Center.
Ian Hoffman The face was fresh but the message was familiar: Humboldt County s COVID-19 case count is spiking at an increasingly rapid rate and may spiral out of control if residents don t begin wearing facial coverings fastidiously when out in public. Hours before he would be unanimously voted in as Humboldt County s new health officer, replacing Teresa Frankovich who stepped back into a part-time, supporting role with Public Health earlier this month, Ian Hoffman addressed the board of supervisors for the first time and struck a similar note to his predecessor s increasingly dire warnings. Humboldt County, he said, had kept the virus at bay for months through compliance with health orders and aggressive testing and contact tracing efforts that quickly identified and isolated case clusters, which were long driven by travel. But the current spike, which had seen 239 cases confirmed through the first eight days of December on the heels of a record-shattering November, as