Mayor Woodward gets her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine
April 23, 2021 6:38 AM Erin Robinson
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SPOKANE, Wash. Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward received her first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday and said she hopes other people will, too.
Woodward became eligible on April 15, when the state opened up eligibility to all Washingtonians 16 and older. She visited a Providence clinic at Gonzaga University to get her first shot.
“I specifically wanted to come to the site here at Gonzaga University because our uptick in cases is in the younger demographics – 29 and under, and so we need to do everything we can to encourage them to get vaccinated,” Woodward said.
The George Massey tunnel. Photo by Francis Georgian /PNG
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The provincial government is promising to spend $26.4 billion over three years to build hospitals, schools, transit and roads creating 85,000 jobs.
Among those projects is extending SkyTrain service to Langley in the Fraser Valley and completing a toll-free replacement for the George Massey Tunnel south of Vancouver. Nisha Yunus, a residential care aide at Providence Health Care, is injected with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccine by Christina Cordova, a regional immunization clinical resource nurse in Vancouver on Dec. 15, 2020. Photo by JENNIFER GAUTHIER /REUTERS files
VANCOUVER Frontline medical workers, administrators and others are painting a troubling picture of the state of B.C. hospitals, with some intensive care units full and contingency plans underway as staff struggle to keep up with incoming COVID-19 patients. In Fraser Health alone, there are 229 COVID-19 patients, with 67 of them in ICU and high acuity units. Approximately half of them are at Surrey Memorial Hospital, and the health authority is operating at 96 per cent hospital capacity overall, with some hospitals at 100 per cent. Five of the 60 operating rooms normally run by Fraser Health have been already closed so that staff could be diverted to COVID-19 care, according to Dr. Victoria Lee, president and CEO of the health authority. That s forced dozens of non-emergency surgeries to be postponed.
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April 21, 2021 5:26 AM Olivia Roberts
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Matt Rourke
SPOKANE, Wash. Starting Thursday, free COVID-19 vaccine appointments will be available for all Inland Northwest community members ages 16 and older at weekly community vaccine clinics on the Gonzaga University campus.
The clinics are managed and administered by Providence Health Care and hosted by Gonzaga University at the Martin Centre Field House, 710 E. Lower Kennedy Drive, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The clinics will continue every Thursday as long as there is community demand.
Future clinics are scheduled for April 29, May 13, 20 and 27.
Appointments can be scheduled HERE.
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