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Debbie Cockrell: Weather slows delivery of WA vaccine shipments, but pharmacy program will expand next week News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 2/19/2021 Debbie Cockrell, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.) Feb. 18 Washington state health officials delivered some bad news and some good news regarding COVID-19 vaccines Thursday. The bad news: Inclement weather on the East Coast has delayed shipment of vaccine deliveries to the state. We estimate that more than 90 percent of this week s allocation will arrive late because of the weather out east, said Acting Assistant Secretary of Health Michele Roberts at a Thursday briefing. Moderna vaccines have not yet shipped because of the weather. And Pfizer vaccines are limited right now. ....
by Rich Smith • Feb 18, 2021 at 1:10 pm We got an update on this little freak s Washington travel plans. CDC At a press conference Thursday morning, Washington state health officials acknowledged the still fairly high daily coronavirus case counts statewide (nearly 314,000 confirmed cases and 4,759 deaths) but painted an optimistic portrait of the days ahead, albeit one complicated by winter storms that continue to slow vaccine deliveries and send Texas senators fleeing to Cancún. (Sorry, still cackling.) Sponsored • 90% of this week’s vaccine allocation will arrive late due to the snowstorms. Yesterday a spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control said bad weather across the country would lead to widespread delays in COVID-19 vaccine shipments and deliveries over the next few days, and they were not lying. WA DOH acting assistant secretary Michele Roberts said the department expects 2 ....
While Hispanics in Washington are far more likely to be infected with COVID-19, early vaccine data reveals that they are far less likely to have gotten a life-saving dose. ....