A lot more people will soon be eligible for COVID vaccine
As the state prepares to expand vaccine eligibility to more than a million additional Washingtonians, public health agencies and medical providers must meet the logistical requirements of getting the doses injected in people’s arms, letting eligible people know when and how to get their shots, while also fighting disinformation about the vaccine.
Weeks into the process, the majority of doses received in Washington are still waiting to be used, but state leaders say they’re hopeful to be done with the first phase by the end of the month.
“If anybody thought that building up a vaccine administration system for the entirety of the United States, and doing that in several months in the way we had to, and that was going to be easy? I’ll be the first to tell you, that was incorrect,” state Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah said Friday.
In Snohomish County, about one in five doses have been administered, according to health district data.
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