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Worcester,
Mass. On May Day outside of St. Vincent Hospital here, there was a sing-along going on. It was the 55th day that the nurses, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, had been on strike at the hospital, and the sunny weather and blooming flowers meant morale was high.
Supporters, from local City Council member Khrystian King to the Worcester branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, as well as members of other unions like the Teamsters and IATSE, joined the nurses to celebrate the worker’s holiday and to demand that the hospital, as the thematically rewritten lyrics to one song went, “bring in more nurses to care in there!”
March 10, 2021 at 12:12 pm
Mayor Durkan, Governor Inslee, and others announce the opening of mass vaccination site at Lumen Field. (Screengrab from Seattle Channel)
The Lumen Field Event Center in Seattle will open as a mass vaccination site on Saturday, March 13.
At peak capacity, the Lumen Field site will be the largest civilian-run clinic of its kind in the country. Initially, due to a limited supply of doses, the site will be open two to three days a week and will vaccinate roughly 5,000 people weekly. However, at full supply, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said the site is capable of vaccinating 20,000 people per day.
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