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Here s what we know: This week, Spokane County got 4,600 additional vaccine doses. We know that 4,000 went to CHAS Health s mass vaccination center at the Spokane Arena. But we don t know where the other 600 went, because the state of Washington won t tell us or even tell the Spokane Regional Health District. Washington State Department of Health does not share allocations to individual providers, Danielle Koenig, the department s health promotion supervisor, wrote in an email. Yet the question of who gets vaccine doses and how many is a vital one. If the public knew which clinics were getting the most vaccines, they could know where to focus their efforts to get vaccinated.
If you’re under 65, don’t hesitate to vaccinate against COVID-19
I am a 34-year-old open-heart surgery survivor who got the vaccine as part of a science experiment. I don’t regret it.
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People arrive in the lobby as Seattle Fire Department’s mobile vaccination team administers COVID-19 vaccines to residents at Columbia Place senior housing in South Seattle during a media visit on Jan. 26, 2021. (Dorothy Edwards/Crosscut)
I smiled when the thermometer read 102 degrees.
That morning in December, after poring over a pile of paperwork and signing my name a half-dozen times, I had received my first dose of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine as part of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Phase 3 clinical trial. A sore arm was the first hint that I didn’t get the placebo, as one out of three in the study did, but I wasn’t sure.