Microsoft campus near Seattle will be used to administer COVID-19 vaccine
January 19, 2021 at 10:41 am
Microsoft is turning its mostly vacant campus into a COVID-19 vaccination site.
The Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant is working with the state of Washington and local hospitals to open up buildings at its headquarters for vaccine administration.
Microsoft President Brad Smith made the announcement Monday as part of Gov. Jay Inslee’s news conference detailing the state’s new COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan.
The company will provide both space and support staff to help administer vaccines for Washington residents. Smith said the goal by next month is to have its campus be one of the mass vaccination sites across the state.
Former Twitter exec on Trump ban, the failure of social media, and an idea to find common ground
January 16, 2021 at 9:14 am
Twitter didn’t set out to ban Donald Trump. The president gave it no choice.
That’s the assessment from Mike Davidson, a Seattle-based tech and media veteran who was Twitter’s vice president of design from 2012 to 2016, sharing his perspective as the guest commentator on this week’s GeekWire Podcast.
“This was something that many employees have wanted the company to do for a long time; I wanted the company to do this for a long time,” Davidson said. “But the company itself is not out to get Donald Trump. If anything, they let him stick around on their platform for too long.”
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)
In the past few years, there’s been increasing attention on the charitable function of Amazon, and that of founder Jeff Bezos. The company has received a lot of criticism over the course of time about Bezos and his donations to charity, as well as Amazon’s place in the community and how much they give back. It now looks like maybe that’s turning a bit of a corner with the announcement of a $2 billion fund for affordable housing initiatives in Seattle, Nashville, Tenn., and Arlington, Va.
What you need to know about the newly detected, more contagious COVID-19 variant
January 6, 2021 at 7:48 am
A UW Medicine health worker check in with a patient at a drive-through coronavirus testing site. (UW Photo / Dennis Wise)
In a final parting shot, 2020 delivered this bit of late-breaking bad news: A new variant of COVID-19 has emerged that appears more contagious and last week was confirmed in one man in Colorado and another in California.
The strain known scientifically by letter and number jumbles including SARS-CoV-2 VOC 202012/01, 501Y.V1 or B.1.1.7 was first detected in the United Kingdom in late September. By November it was the most dominant form of the virus among people infected in Southeast England, which includes London.
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