I can not wait until they deliver the vaccine to Prime members the next day. DAVID RYDER / GETTY IMAGES
The trillion-dollar business that counts itself among one of the few businesses that absolutely made it through the COVID-19 exclusions, wants you to know that he, along with Virginia Mason, has a pop-up vaccination site at Amazon Meeting Center in South Lake Union from Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
At the one-day event, Virginia Mason volunteers plan to administer 2,000 vaccines to all eligible regardless of the status of the insurance. Find out if you are eligible for the jab with the PhaseFinder tool from the state, and jump on the hospital waiting list here.
Jay’s senior vice president of global corporate affairs, Jay Carney, announced the temporary website at Governor’s Inslee’s press conference on Thursday. The company will also lend one of its executives to the Washington State Vaccine Command and Coordination Center to, as you know, “leverage our operations, information technology, logistics and communications” in a way that can help bring more vaccines into the gun. instead, Carney said. Carney concluded by mentioning a plan to pay a third-party occupational health provider to administer the vaccine to suitable recipients in their own fulfillment centers.
I did not hear much about Amazon supporting any rural or federal tax to pay for chronically underfunded public health departments tasked with setting up massive vaccination sites across the state using outdated and disparate systems in an already hopelessly fragmented healthcare system, but I do want to use this moment to thank them for walking in. (At the press conference, reg. Inslee said “[Amazon has] not asking for any compensation ‘for their help, and he’s hopeful that they will help us … in additional ways. “So I think there’s still time for growth, but I’m not holding my breath.”
Meanwhile, Snohomish County already has three massive vaccination centers, and they plan to open a few more. King County has pledged to open two sites in the southern part of the province by Feb. 1, and then at some point ten. By next week, the Department of Health plans to build sites in Spokane, Kennewick, Wenatchee and Ridgefield.
The directors of all these departments of health all say that they can speed up the planning process for the construction of these sites if they can only count on more vaccine supply coming down in the pike. To achieve Inslee’s goal of vaccinating 45,000 Washingtonians a day, Inslee said the federal government would have to “triple” their production, as we have vaccinated more and more people a day than the dosage can sustain. The governor said he did not know when he would learn more about the increased supply, but that he had a partner in the White House who could really help us. ‘According to the New York Times, the country’s vaccine supply is likely to increase only in April.
In recent weeks, the state has slowly increased its allocation rate from 26% on January 8 to 44% (or 52% if you do not count the vaccines for long-term care patients, which private pharmacies deliver via a program) run by the federal government).
To date, Washington healthcare providers have received nearly 830,000 doses of the vaccine, but only given 362,000 doses in the arms. Inslee said that these numbers, which still feel a bit low, place us ‘now’ 13th in the country for vaccines that have taken place. This is true for the number of shots given, but the state ranks 33rd in terms of the percentage of the population who get at least one shot, according to a New York Times voice.
State Health Department officials cite numerous reasons for the low numbers, including a lack of transparency on the part of the feds regarding the number of people in long-term care facilities they actually vaccinated and data backlogs / communication problems related to parenting and divergence. vaccination systems. However, Washington’s health secretary, Dr Umair Shah, pointed to the growing percentage of vaccines as proof that things would get better.