A failed freezer forced an overnight dash to give out more than 1,600 doses of the coronavirus vaccine Hannah Knowles A line stretches for several blocks outside UW Medicine–Northwest in Seattle on Jan. 29 after a freezer failure prompted an all-night covid-19 vaccination clinic. (Evan Bush /The Seattle Times/AP) The last shots were given at about 3:45 a.m., out on the street, with literally no time to spare. All night, staff and volunteers with Seattle’s Swedish Health Services had been rushing to administer hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine set to expire early in the morning after a freezer malfunction. Finally, they had only a few dozen shots left and about 15 minutes to get them into people’s arms.
How a delayed software launch hindered Washington’s vaccine rollout [The Seattle Times]
Jan. 21 After a full day vaccinating seniors and health care workers, Mark Tan has gone home and spent hours manually entering their data into the state’s immunization registry.
That laborious process, played out across the state, has bogged down vaccinations and left state officials blind to where unused doses remained. Tan, the owner of a small pharmacy on Bainbridge Island, still had a stack of about 150 patient forms he hadn’t yet entered last week, despite 15-hour days.
His pharmacy is one of more than 800 coronavirus vaccine providers statewide grappling with a state immunization system ill-fitted for the pandemic. The process was supposed to be streamlined by specialized mass vaccine software, but the state Department of Health didn’t launch it until Jan. 15, more than a month after the first COVID-19 doses arrived in Washington.
The delay meant that pharmacies, doctors offices and hospitals were responsible for setting up their own systems: to register patients, schedule appointments, gain consent and report vaccinations to the state.
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In a Bit of a Bikel: A Look at the Vancouver Whitecaps’ Defence
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By most measures the Vancouver Whitecaps had one of the the worst defences in a very weird 2020 MLS season. They were last in the league expected goals against, 4th from bottom in actual goals against, and last in shots conceded. But in all of their post season interviews Axel Schuster and Marc Dos Santos have both stressed the need for attacking solutions. Naturally this has lead to some concern that they aren’t strengthening their defence. So let’s look at that defence and examine just how big of a problem it is.