<img height="1" width="1" style="display:none" src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=192888919167017&amp;ev=PageView&amp;noscript=1">
Menu
The Columbian logo tagline
Login
Monday,  November 25 , 2024
Current weather Vancouver, WA

Linkedin Pinterest

Tagged Articles:
COVID-19

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2020 file photo, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talks to reporters at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. State lawmakers across the country will be convening in 2021 with the continuing COVID-19 pandemic rippling through much of their work — and even affecting the way they work. After 10 months of emergency orders and restrictions from governors and local executive officials, some state lawmakers are eager to reassert their power over statewide decisions shaping the way people shop, work, worship and attend school (AP Photo/Ted S.

Gov. Inslee accuses Trump administration of deception over coronavirus vaccine reserve

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2020 file photo, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talks to reporters at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. State lawmakers across the country will be convening in 2021 with the continuing COVID-19 pandemic rippling through much of their work — and even affecting the way they work. After 10 months of emergency orders and restrictions from governors and local executive officials, some state lawmakers are eager to reassert their power over statewide decisions shaping the way people shop, work, worship and attend school (AP Photo/Ted S.

January 19, 2021, 8:19am Latest News Free

After learning that the federal vaccine reserve is apparently barren and won’t provide a boost of doses to states, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee accused the Trump administration of deception. Read story

Amalia Ayala, front, a resident of Las Brisas Sunset senior apartment complex in San Luis, Ariz., deposits saliva for her COVID-19 test during the ASU and Equality Health Foundation pilot program on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Free saliva tests engineered by Arizona State University&#039;s Biodesign Institute are administered in Yuma County&#039;s small border city of San Luis to disabled and older people living in subsidized housing. The tests have also been given to hundreds of farmworkers.

Military nurses, tests coming to help hard-hit Arizona city

Amalia Ayala, front, a resident of Las Brisas Sunset senior apartment complex in San Luis, Ariz., deposits saliva for her COVID-19 test during the ASU and Equality Health Foundation pilot program on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. Free saliva tests engineered by Arizona State University&#039;s Biodesign Institute are administered in Yuma County&#039;s small border city of San Luis to disabled and older people living in subsidized housing. The tests have also been given to hundreds of farmworkers.

January 18, 2021, 6:45pm Nation & World Free

Exhausted nurses in rural Yuma, Arizona, regularly send COVID-19 patients on a long helicopter ride to Phoenix when they don’t have enough staff. The so-called winter lettuce capital of the U.S. also has lagged on coronavirus testing in heavily Hispanic neighborhoods and just ran out of vaccines. Read story

A vial with the COVID-19 vaccine is pictured at PeaceHealth Urgent Care Memorial on Tuesday morning.

Clark County Fairgrounds will be one of mass COVID-19 vaccination sites in Washington

A vial with the COVID-19 vaccine is pictured at PeaceHealth Urgent Care Memorial on Tuesday morning.

January 18, 2021, 3:17pm Clark County Health Free

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday announced a plan to set up vaccination sites statewide with help from the National Guard and others as part of an overall goal to vaccinate 45,000 people a day. Read story

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2021 photo provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, National Guard members assisting with processing COVID-19 deaths, placing them into temporary storage at the medical examiner-coroner&#039;s office in Los Angeles. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths is rising in 30 states and the District of Columbia, and on Monday, Jan 18, 2021, the U.S. was approaching 398,000, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, by far the highest of any country in the world.

Coronavirus deaths rising in 30 U.S. states amid winter surge

FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2021 photo provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, National Guard members assisting with processing COVID-19 deaths, placing them into temporary storage at the medical examiner-coroner&#039;s office in Los Angeles. The seven-day rolling average of daily deaths is rising in 30 states and the District of Columbia, and on Monday, Jan 18, 2021, the U.S. was approaching 398,000, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, by far the highest of any country in the world.

January 18, 2021, 12:02pm Health Free

Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold. Read story

(iStock.com)

Disproportionately hit by COVID-19, Washington Latinos brace for vaccine

(iStock.com)

January 18, 2021, 6:00am Health

Rosalinda Martinez, a 47-year-old immigrant from Mexico who lives in Tukwila, doesn’t plan to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, even though she’s at higher risk of dying from the virus because she’s overweight and diabetic. Read story

‘Losing precious months’: What isolation and lack of touch mean for Washington residents with dementia and their families

January 17, 2021, 1:20pm Health Wire

Marijo was well into her 80s, but she wasn’t letting her age or her move to an assisted living facility on the Kitsap Peninsula slow her down. She’d visit with her daughter daily, bring home bags of books from the library, where she had great conversations with the librarian, walk… Read story

Cubicles erected inside Salisbury Cathedral, for people to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, in Salisbury, England, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Vaccination centers are being opened in England at some of the country&#039;s great cathedrals. Salisbury Cathedral, which also houses a copy of the Magna Carta, opened its great nave to the public. Others will follow as the rollout continues. Organ music played as the jabs were delivered at Salisbury and requests were even taken.

U.K. aims to give 1st COVID-19 shot to all adults by September

Cubicles erected inside Salisbury Cathedral, for people to receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, in Salisbury, England, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. Vaccination centers are being opened in England at some of the country&#039;s great cathedrals. Salisbury Cathedral, which also houses a copy of the Magna Carta, opened its great nave to the public. Others will follow as the rollout continues. Organ music played as the jabs were delivered at Salisbury and requests were even taken.

January 17, 2021, 1:14pm Nation & World

The U.K. government plans to offer a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to every adult by September as the nation’s health care system battles the worst crisis in its 72-year-history. Read story

Members of the West Virginia National Guard monitor statewide efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, at the National Guard Joint Forces headquarters in Charleston, W.Va. West Virginia has emerged an unlikely success in the nation&#039;s otherwise chaotic vaccine rollout. Officials also credit a 50-person command center at the state&#039;s National Guard headquarters just outside the capital of Charleston.

‘Little old West Virginia’ sets pace on vaccine rollout

Members of the West Virginia National Guard monitor statewide efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, at the National Guard Joint Forces headquarters in Charleston, W.Va. West Virginia has emerged an unlikely success in the nation&#039;s otherwise chaotic vaccine rollout. Officials also credit a 50-person command center at the state&#039;s National Guard headquarters just outside the capital of Charleston.

January 17, 2021, 1:00pm Nation & World

Griffith & Feil Drug has been in business since 1892, a family-owned, small-town pharmacy. This isn't their first pandemic. Read story

Businesses, lenders in Clark County days away from ‘second draw’ of Paycheck Protection Program loans

January 17, 2021, 6:00am Business

Local banks are preparing for the full-scale rollout of a new round of Paycheck Protection Program loans this week, which will deliver a fresh round of cash to beleaguered Clark County businesses. The $900 billion federal COVID-19 relief bill passed in December included $284 billion to reopen the program. Read story

Store owner Jessica Chan works on her laptop Saturday at NMV Pop-Local on West Ninth Street in downtown Vancouver.

NMV Pop-Local an adaptation that may become spin-off Vancouver venture

Store owner Jessica Chan works on her laptop Saturday at NMV Pop-Local on West Ninth Street in downtown Vancouver.

January 16, 2021, 4:49pm Business

The Night Market Vancouver remains closed for now due to COVID-19, but its founder has created an adaptation that may become a spin-off venture. Read story