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Walt Royle of Vancouver Heights United Methodist Church, left, joins fellow volunteers as they drop off Christmas gifts and supplies for workers Dec. 9 at sea at the Port of Vancouver administration building.

Volunteers collect gifts for seafarers docked at Port of Vancouver

December 16, 2020, 6:03am Clark County Business

Socks, hats and potato chips might not seem like the most exciting Christmas presents for those of us on dry land, but they’re hot commodities for the mariners who crew cargo ships that spend weeks at a time crisscrossing the world’s oceans. Read story

Clark County reports four new COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday

December 15, 2020, 3:55pm Clark County Health Free

Clark County reported four new deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday as the pace of new cases fell but hospitalizations increased. Read story

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, in Washington.

Talks escalate on new COVID-19 relief, top lawmakers to meet

December 15, 2020, 12:55pm Latest News Free

Talks on a long-delayed COVID-19 aid package intensified Tuesday as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi summoned other top congressional leaders for a potentially critical meeting. Read story

Amy Fry, left, a nurse in the COVID ICU at Harborview Medical Center, holds up her sleeve to receive the first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination at UW Medicine from registered nurse Allison Miller, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Seattle.

‘I feel hope’: Nurse among 1st to get vaccine in Washington

December 15, 2020, 12:35pm Health Free

SEATTLE -- With a quick, painless shot in the arm, health care workers in Washington began receiving the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, marking a turning point 10 months after the state confronted the first U.S. outbreak of the virus. Read story

Colleen Teevan, System Pharmacy Clinical Manager at Hartford HealthCare, administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19 to healthcare worker Connor Paleski outside of Hartford Hospital, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Hartford, Conn.

U.S. vaccinations ramp up as 2nd COVID-19 shot nears

December 15, 2020, 10:45am Health Free

Hundreds more hospitals around the country began dispensing COVID-19 shots to their workers in a rapid expansion of the U.S. vaccination drive Tuesday, while a second vaccine moved to the cusp of government authorization. Read story

This undated photo provided by Ellume shows a self-administered rapid coronavirus at home test kit developed by Australian manufacturer Ellume. U.S. regulators on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that consumers can buy without a prescription to test themselves entirely at home.

Over-the-counter home test for COVID-19 gets US green light

December 15, 2020, 9:33am Health Free

The first home test for COVID-19 that doesn't require a prescription will soon be on U.S. store shelves. Read story

Biomanufacturing company AbSci is moving into a new headquarters at 18105 S.E. Mill Plain Blvd. The new headquarters, which AbSci is leasing, will take up about 61,000 square feet. The building, owned and built by PacTrust, is new, and AbSci will be its first tenant, said AbSci founder and CEO Sean McClain.

Growing biotech firm AbSci to move headquarters from downtown to east Vancouver

December 15, 2020, 6:30am Clark County Business

Vancouver-based biomanufacturing company AbSci is moving its operations into a much larger headquarters at the Columbia Tech Center in east Vancouver. It’s part of an expansion of the rapidly growing business that’s working on COVID-19 vaccine work. Read story

The Vancouver Public Schools Administrative Services building.

Report: More students receiving failing grades at Vancouver Public Schools

December 15, 2020, 6:03am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

A report on student grades from Vancouver Public Schools offers concrete evidence that remote learning is leading to a striking drop in students’ academic performance, and the most vulnerable students are suffering the most. Read story

University of Washington Medical Center Pharmacy Manager Christine Meyer puts a tray of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine into the deep freeze after the vaccine arrived Monday at the University of Washington Medical Center's Montlake campus in Seattle.

COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Clark County this week

December 14, 2020, 5:02pm Clark County Health

Cities across the United States started vaccinating people for coronavirus on Monday, but it will be a little longer before injections begin in Clark County. Read story

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