Nurse Elizabeth Vadnais administers the COVID-19 vaccine to fellow nurse Ashlynn Strode of Providence Southwest Washington. Credit: Courtesy Providence SW Washington
National Guard and private companies like Starbucks, Microsoft to help speed vaccinations in WA By
The state of Washington, hamstrung as many states have been by a slow distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, will deploy the National Guard, set up mass vaccination sites and create a new public-private partnership to lead a renewed effort to get the vaccine into people s arms.
The move comes as the state prepares to immediately advance to the next phase of people eligible for a vaccination beyond health care workers, first responders and those living and working in nursing homes.
Life Care Center of Kirkland to administer second vaccine doses as statewide rollout lags
Vaccination progressing, state addresses lag
The Life Care Center of Kirkland is administering the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to its patients and staff. Meanwhile, the state addresses the slow vaccine roll out after receiving public criticism. Since it first happened to now it seems like an eternity, said Nancy Butner, who managed the March 2020 Covid-19 outbreak at the facility last year.
Life Care Center was the nation s first epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 40 residents died in the first month alone.
Butner is now the Northwest Division Vice President of Life Care Centers of America, and will also receive her second shot on Monday.
The talk on Big Tech was meant to explore the forces that will shape the internet industry and its titans in the coming decade, with U.S. regulators and states looking at whether Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon wield too much power. The inquiries have looked into business practices at those companies, but lawmakers have also been concerned about their control on information, which became increasingly obvious within the past week.
Bovard touched on the subject of that power over online speech, but since it was not live, she could not possibly know what would transpire this week. “You have companies who control literally the flow of information in free societies,” Bovard says. “You know, Google, when it makes a content moderation decision, that decision ripples for 90% of the search marketplace. That is a very significant network effect.”