PeaceHealth administers first doses of COVID-19 vaccine in Clark County
Published: December 16, 2020, 6:30pm
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4 Photos PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center administered the first COVID-19 vaccines in Clark County today. (Courtesy of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center) Photo Gallery
A prick in a right arm, then a round of applause.
It only took Schaeffer Seabrook seconds to get a COVID-19 vaccination, but she’ll forever be the first person in Clark County inoculated for the virus.
Seabrook, a registered nurse at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, grasped the gravity of her vaccination, which arrived minutes after 9 a.m. Wednesday morning in the health education center on the Southwest campus.
COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Clark County this week
Published: December 14, 2020, 5:02pm
Share: University of Washington Medical Center Pharmacy Manager Christine Meyer puts a tray of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine into the deep freeze after the vaccine arrived Monday at the University of Washington Medical Center s Montlake campus in Seattle. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times)
Cities across the United States started vaccinating people for coronavirus on Monday, but it will be a little longer before injections begin in Clark County.
PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center is expecting to receive several thousand doses of the vaccine as early as Tuesday. The plan is to start injecting front-line staff at the hospital as early as Wednesday.
COVID-19 hospitalizations dropping, but Thanksgiving surge may follow
Warning comes as county adds 250 new cases, tops 10,000 cases to date
Published: December 9, 2020, 4:45pm
Share: A sign outside PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center honors hospital staff working hard to treat patients during the COVID-19 crisis. (The Columbian files)
PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center continues to see a drop in its COVID-19 hospitalizations, but the hospital remains concerned about a potential holiday coronavirus surge.
The hospital noted the decline Wednesday as Clark County Public Health reported 250 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the county’s total number of cases to 10,228 to date.
Public Health also reported 928 active cases in Clark County, counting people with COVID-19 and still in their isolation period. There were 51 hospitalizations for COVID-19 at all Clark County hospitals on Wednesday and eight hospitalized in the county awaiting test results, according to Public Health.