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February 22, 2021 7:17 PM Alex Crescenti
SPOKANE, Wash. More than 1.2 million doses of the vaccine have now been given out in Washington. This comes as powerful winter storms ripped through the country last week and delayed the vaccines to our area. These storms haven’t cause either Washington or Idaho to fall too far behind in getting the shots into peoples arms.
The Spokane Arena will be back open on Tuesday morning, giving people their second doses of the Moderna vaccine. Mixed in with them will be those who had appointments Friday through Monday, which had to be rescheduled due to delays from the storm conditions.
× By Evan Bush, The Seattle Times
Published: February 23, 2021, 8:23am
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Some providers in Washington state are slated to receive twice as much vaccine this week, after ice and snow delayed last week’s shipments across the nation.
For some hospitals, “there is essentially going to be a double delivery,” said Cassie Sauer, of the Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA), adding that many facilities had already received delivery confirmations.
Sauer said hospitals were not scheduled for a large proportion of the overall state allocation for first doses this week or last and should be able to manage the influx.
“We’re confident, on the hospital side, we’re going to be able to work through our doses quite quickly,” Sauer said.
A bill in Washington on COVID-19 liability protections makes it through to Senate Rules Sydney Kurle | Feb 17, 2021
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This bill provides a method for determining the standard of care during the state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current standard of care, as established under law, is the level and types of care of a reasonably sensible practitioner possessing the degree of skill, care and learning possessed by other members of the same profession. The sponsor of the bill, Sen. Keith Wagoner, said:
“What it really does is it provides them [providers and facilities] limited liability in the execution of their duties so that they aren’t held liable for changes in our understanding of the disease, of COVID, and things that they did that were best practices at the beginning of the pandemic, that have changed since then. It really is going to allow them to do their job in an efficient and effective manner without risk of liabili