Washington s vaccine supply may be cut to outlets that provide VIP access
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SEATTLE - Authorities in Washington state on Monday told hospitals and other COVID-19 vaccine providers not to provide special access to people or risk having their supplies of doses cut. VIP scheduling, reserving doses for inequitable or exclusive access, and similar practices are banned and will not be tolerated, the state Department of Health said in a email to all enrolled vaccine providers. If we find out a provider is giving out vaccine inequitably or is doing behaviors listed above or similar, we may reduce or stop allocations to that provider.
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David Heath and Gus Garcia-Roberts, USA TODAY
Published
9:25 pm UTC Jan. 31, 2021
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MARYSVILLE, Wash. – Steve Jahn stood at the top of his driveway watching the final ambulance pull out. The first took his wife of 32 years two days before. The second took his father-in-law. The third, his mother-in-law.
of Snohomish County, Washington.
He closed his eyes and prayed on the asphalt. The whole thing was surreal, said Jahn, 62, who sells ambulances and fire trucks. It was the one, two, three succession of having all three of them go in a matter of three days.
For his wife, Peggy Jahn, 62, memories of that day are blurry – except for one. In the middle of the night, hours after she was rolled into a small isolation room at Providence Regional Medical Center, a doctor came in to deliver the news.
SEATTLE (AP) Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is calling on the state to stop hospital systems from giving special COVID-19 vaccine access to donors, board members or other connected community members following reports of several area hospital systems doing so. Durkan on Friday also called for the state to reallocate vaccines to community health clinics that serve low-income communities of color, The Seattle Times reported. Her calls come amid.
Hospitals across Puget Sound are trying to give donors vaccine priority: Earlier this week, the
Seattle Times blew up Overlake Medical Center s attempt to secure vaccine slots for its high donors. Now, the
Timeshas learned that this is happening
all over the region. Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett offered an invite-only vaccine sesh for donors and EvergreenHealth in Kirkland included foundation board members on its vaccine soft-launch. Sponsored
Mayor Jenny Durkan says hell the fuck no to that kind of preferential treatment: Durkan is calling on the state to ban special vaccine access to donors, the
Seattle Times reports. Durkan also said that the vaccine should be rerouted to community health clinics that serve low-income communities of color. Alright, go off, Jenny.