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    Grace Vakalutukali (l) gets a shot from certified medical assistant Vanchesta Stewart at the Pacific Islander Community Association in Federal Way,  Monday, April 5, 2021.  UW Medicine is vaccinating people from the Pacific Islander community thanks to $1 million in funding from the Allen Family Foundation.

The Allen Family Foundation grant boosts COVID-19 vaccinations in vulnerable communities
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    April 6, 2021 at 7:00 am

    COVID vaccines roll into Seattle area's vulnerable communities with boost from Allen Foundation

    A $1 million grant from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is funding mobile vaccination clinics to administer about 20,000 COVID-19 shots to people in...

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    As part of a phase 1 clinical trial of a variant-specific COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna, pharmacist Sue Lasicka gives a shot of the vaccine candidate to volunteer Suzanne Spencer, MD, on April 1, 2021, at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. (Jonathan Rabinovitz / Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute)
    April 2, 2021 at 3:37 pm

    A COVID-19 vaccine against the most worrisome variant is being tested in Seattle

    Seattle is one of four sites across the country testing an experimental booster shot designed to protect against the most worrisome coronavirus variant. The variant...

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    FILE – In this Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020 file photo, a droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I. With millions of Americans waiting for their chance to get the coronavirus vaccine, a fortunate few are getting bumped to the front of the line as clinics scramble to get rid of extra, perishable doses at the end of the day. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) NY601
    April 1, 2021 at 6:00 am

    Some Washington state health care workers remain reluctant to get COVID-19 vaccinations

    Do you work in health care in Washington state and have concerns or questions that make you reluctant to get vaccinated? We’d like to hear...

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    Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a cell heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus particles (orange/red), isolated from a patient sample. The image was captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility. (NIAID via ZUMA Wire/TNS) 12180573W 12180573W
    March 29, 2021 at 6:00 am

    Washington state finds more than 600 COVID-19 cases caused by closely watched variants

    Laboratories in Washington state are finding increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases caused by coronavirus variants that state and federal officials are tracking closely, according to...

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    Richard Biggs, 20, an evolutionary biology major at the University of Colorado Boulder gets his first dose of the Moderna vaccine from Dr. Laird Wolfe. Biggs is one of the first group of students in a new study to determine if the vaccine can prevent COVID-19 infection and transmission in the student population. CU Boulder students will join 12,000 other college students in the country.  (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)
    March 26, 2021 at 7:00 am

    Coronavirus study with UW students aims to answer key question, help us see when 'normal' life can return

    Can vaccinated people get mild or asymptomatic infections and pass the virus on to others? A major study involving college students will help determine when...

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    The Ballard Farmers Market, seen shortly after Gov. Inslee’s executive orders to combat Covid-19, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020 in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, controls crowd size with entry checkpoints and requires masks. 215667
    March 14, 2021 at 6:00 am

    COVID-19 precautions shut down flu this season, but what will next winter bring?

    Social distancing, masking and other steps to control the novel coronavirus also shut down flu this past winter, scientists say. The phenomenon demonstrates the power...

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    A researcher shows a “dendrogram” of a Covid-19 variant at the State of Washington Department of Health—Public Health Laboratories in Shoreline, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. It tracks one of the Covid-19 variants in four Washington counties during a month, and shows that this particular strain is not expanding in the population. 216463
    March 8, 2021 at 6:00 am

    We may never reach herd immunity on coronavirus — but it probably doesn’t matter

    Herd immunity is often evoked as the pandemic's finish line, but King County's top health official and other experts doubt it will ever be achieved....

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    After the earthquake destroyed the outside wall of their architecture office in Pioneer Square, Kevin Eckert and Laura Hafermann finish removing items from the debris yesteday. The building, at 540 First Avenue South, has been red-tagged.
    February 28, 2021 at 6:00 am

    20 years after the Nisqually earthquake, are we better prepared for the Big One? VIEW

    Washington has a long history of inaction on seismic preparedness. But emergency managers say the state has made significant progress in the two decades since...

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    Roxanne Erolin, a research specialist, puts a blood sample that is part of a random clinical trial, into a centrifuge at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021 in Seattle, which is the only site in the state that is part of clinical trials on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is expected to be approved soon for emergency use. 216471
    February 26, 2021 at 6:00 am

    What we know about the Johnson & Johnson vaccine: Timing, dosage, access in Washington state

    The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which requires just a single dose, could be available in Washington state as early as next week if granted federal...

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    Pallets of recently received Moderna COVID-19 vaccines inside the storage freezer at McKesson’s Olive Branch, Miss. distribution center are ready to be unpacked and sorted for shipment. (Photo: Business Wire)
    February 18, 2021 at 11:22 am

    Some 90% of COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Washington are delayed this week, state says

    Blasts of ice and snow sweeping through the nation's center are slowing shipments of vaccine to Washington. Meanwhile, cases, hospitalizations and deaths related to the...

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