Seattle Fire Will Go Door to Door with Coronavirus Vaccines

David Gutman The Seattle Times (MCT) The Seattle Fire Department on Thursday will begin vaccinating residents of adult family homes throughout the city, after the city was approved late last week as a distributor of COVID-19 vaccines, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced. Durkan framed the new push as the first in what will eventually be a major city effort to distribute the vaccine from sites spread throughout the city. “We have to get these shots out of refrigerators and into people’s arms,” she said. “We hope that if we get steady supplies, we will stand up mass vaccination sites side by side with our testing sites.” The city has, for months, operated four free drive-up coronavirus testing sites that, city officials said, have conducted more than 556,000 tests. Durkan said the city has talked with Seattle Public Schools about possibly using school facilities to set up vaccination sites. “It will really have to be an all-hands-on-deck approach,” she said, stressing that to reach 70% of its adult population, King County will have to vaccinate 1.3 million people, giving out 2.6 million shots. “It is an undertaking that our country has never done before, not on this scale.” In this first step, Fire Department paramedics will go door to door at adult family homes not served by a federal partnership with CVS and Walgreens. There are about 100 such facilities in the city, fire...
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