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Alice Cortez, nurse manager at the Life Care Center of Kirkland, receives a COVID-19 vaccine from CVS pharmacist Matt Talavera on Dec. 28, 2020 in Kirkland, Washington. (Photo by Karen Ducey/Getty Images)
The Washington State Department of Health has approved the City of Seattle to be a COVID-19 vaccine distributor, which means that the city will receive weekly shipments from the DOH and can administer it to residents and workers in Seattle.
“We know that Seattle’s road to reopening and economic recovery starts with vaccinations, and today is the first step in the City’s efforts to significantly increase the vaccination rate and ensure the vaccine is easy and accessible to our City’s workers and residents,” Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said. “Even as more of us begin to get vaccinated, we’ll need to continue wearing masks, practicing social distan
Jennie Wu, Director of Urgent Clinics at Evergreen Health Medical Center, receives the first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, administered by Dr. Ettore Palazzo on Wednesday, December 23, 2020, at Evergreen Health Medical Center in Kirkland. Credit: KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer
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At the end of last February, Alice Cortez, a nurse, noticed that many of her patients were sick with breathing problems. Cortez works at Life Care Center, a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington.
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The United States started on Monday to administer the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to people in long-term care facilities (LTCF), who have been hit hard by the virus since the beginning of the pandemic.
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Workers and residents at LifeCare Center in Kirkland on Monday began receiving their initial doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, several months after the long-term care center became the first place in the U.S. to report a death from coronavirus.
Employees at the center received the first doses of the vaccine, which was approved and shipped in near-record time for the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, a testament to how COVID-19 has upended life in the state, the nation and around the world..