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Officials hope 10 COVID-19 deaths within a day at Olympia hospital prompt vaccinations
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Record number of COVID-19 deaths in Thurston County within 24 hours
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Thurston County Health officials head to encampments to vaccinate the homeless population
Volunteer nurses are heading to homeless encampments to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to anyone who wants it in Thurston County. Author: KING 5 Staff Updated: 9:07 PM PDT May 19, 2021
OLYMPIA, Wash. The Thurston County Health Department is trying a new strategy to get vaccines to the homeless population.
In a partnership between the City of Olympia, the Thurston County Health Department and local charities, volunteer nurses are heading to homeless encampments to administer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to anyone who wants it.
Thurston County Public Health visited an encampment along Deschutes Parkway, not far from the state Capitol on Wednesday.
At Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, nurses with desk jobs are being told to prepare to come back to the front lines, and elective surgeries and procedures are once again being put on hold.
The desperate measures come amidst an ongoing spike in coronavirus cases in the community and as the hospital prepares for a post-Thanksgiving surge of COVID-19 patients.
“Unfortunately, I think within the next week it’s going to be a significant rise in COVID-19,” said Dr. Kevin Caserta, the chief medical officer for Providence SW Washington.
Already, the two hospitals Caserta oversees, St. Peter and Providence Centralia, have seen a near doubling of COVID patients over the past six to eight weeks – from roughly 25 to nearly 50 today.
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