Washington state urges parents to be patient as COVID vaccine supply for kids 5-11 won’t meet demand at first
Ten-year-old Micah Wong wasn’t nervous at all when he sat down inside a brightly lit Shoreline Community College building Wednesday afternoon. He grinned under a baseball cap and took a deep breath as a firefighter took his left arm and gave a shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. “It just felt like a pinch,” said Wong, whose two younger sisters, ages 5 and 7, also got their first shot Wednesday. “It faded away pretty quick.” Wong was among 10 of the state’s first 5- to 11-year-olds — most the sons and daughters of UW Medicine doctors and staffers — who waited their turn to get Pfizer’s childhood shot Wednesday. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Amanda Snyder)
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Washington’s newly minted federal judges are breaking barriers and mirroring communities across the state. These picks represent a concerted effort by the Biden administration to diversify the historically white, male court system. Lauren King, David Estudillo and Tana Lin recently received Senate confirmation to serve as federal judges in Washington’s Western District. Lin is believed to be the first Asian American federal judge in Washington state; King, a member of the Muscogee Nation is believed to be the first Native American federal judge in the state; and Estudillo, who is Latino, belongs to a community that makes up Washington’s largest minority population. Continue reading at Crosscut. (John Shinkle)
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Tens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday. The new requirements, which were first previewed by President Joe Biden in September, will apply to about 84 million workers at medium and large businesses, although it is not clear how many of those employees are unvaccinated. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations will force the companies to require that unvaccinated workers test negative for COVID-19 at least once a week and wear a mask while in the workplace. Continue reading at KIRO 7.
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