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*All currently eligible residents can register [ [link removed] ] for a COVID-19 vaccination appointment at one of the City?s three fixed sites.* If you or someone you know is currently Washington State Department of Health eligible [ [link removed] ], sign up for our notification list [ [link removed] ], and we?ll send you an email as soon as appointments become available at West Seattle, Rainier Beach, or the Lumen Field Event Center. *Slots are available as soon as early next week. *

Lumen Field Event Center mass vaccination site [ [link removed] ]

Click the photo to sign up to recieve notifications for vaccine appointments at City sites, like Lumen Field Event Center

While our sites in West Seattle and Rainier Beach are primarily serving BIPOC residents referred through community based organizations, some appointments may become available weekly. Appointments at the Lumen Field Event Center will be available to eligible members of the public on a weekly basis.

Governor Inslee also announced that on March 17, more individuals will become eligible for vaccinations. Soon, those in Phase 1B, Tier 2 of the state?s eligibility timeline will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccination. We have also made the notification list available to individuals who are expected to be eligible next week. *Add your name to our notification list [ [link removed] ] now to be notified when appointments become available. ?*

Vaccinating?a?city is the challenge of a lifetime. We all need to do our part to fight this public health crisis.?If you?are?eligible, get a vaccine. If you are not yet on the timeline, share this information with your eligible family, friends, and neighbors.?Seattle, we have to work together.?

To help with the vaccine effort, the City?s Customer Service Bureau is available at 206-684-2489 from Monday through Saturday, between 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. to assist eligible residents in?filling out the notification list. In-language assistance is available over the phone.?Sound Transit has also announced?free transit to appointments [ [link removed] ].??

Hope is on the horizon, but in the meantime ? even those who are vaccinated ? we much continue following public health guidance. This means to continue wearing masks and practicing physical distancing.?

Sign up for your appointment today,??

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Mayor Durkan Urges Older Adults to Get Vaccinated

Following her announcement that the Lumen Field Event Center will open for its first day of operations this Saturday, March 13, Mayor Jenny A. Durkan urged all?eligible members of the public to sign up for?the City?s vaccination notification list [ [link removed] ].??

In West Seattle and South Seattle, only 64.8% of individuals who are 75?and older?have received?their first dose?and 67% of individuals in Central Seattle who are 65?and older?have?received?their?vaccinations.??

In particular, the Mayor urges members of the public who are 65 or older and have not yet been vaccinated to sign up for the notification list. According to?data from Public Health ? Seattle & King County [ [link removed] ], a significant percentage of older adults in the Seattle area have not yet received their first dose of the vaccine.?

Map of vaccinated population within King County
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Mayor Durkan Statement on House Passage of the American Rescue Plan

Mayor Jenny A. Durkan issued the following statement after the passage of the American Rescue Plan in the House:?

?Help is on the way for Seattle residents and small businesses. This relief package proposed by President Biden recognizes the ever growing the impact this pandemic has had upon our communities and small businesses. The American Rescue Plan targets relief to cities and states that have for months been standing up new programs, and policies to address the deepening needs of the American people one year into this pandemic and economic crisis. This once in a generation bill would not have been possible without the leadership of President Biden, Sen. Murray, Sen. Cantwell, Rep. Jayapal and Rep. Smith.?

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Inslee announces statewide move to Phase 3 of recovery plan, return to spectator events and *Phase 1B, Tier 2 vaccine eligibility

Gov. Jay Inslee today announced that Healthy Washington: Roadmap to Recovery will be transitioning from a regional approach to a county-by-county evaluation process. The governor also announced a new third phase of the Roadmap and a return for in-person spectators for professional and high school sports.?

Effective March 22, the entire state will enter Phase 3.?

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WEEKEND READ: New York Times: Seattle?s Virus Success Shows What Could Have Been

Photo of Seattle residents outside during the COVID-19 pandemic

By Mike Baker

"The Seattle area once had more coronavirus deaths than anywhere else in the United States. A year later, the region?s deaths per capita are lower than any other large metropolitan area."??

"One year after the pandemic became official, Seattle?s success illustrates the value of unified and timely strategies for fighting the coronavirus."??

Facing the nation?s first widespread?coronavirus [ [link removed] ]?outbreak, some of Washington State?s top leaders quietly gathered on a Sunday morning last March for an urgent strategy session.??

The virus had been rampaging through a nursing home in the Seattle suburbs. By the time the meeting began, the region had recorded most of the nation?s first 19 deaths. New cases were surfacing by the hour.??

As the meeting?s presentation got to the fifth slide, the room grew somber. The numbers showed a variety of potential outcomes, but almost every scenario was a blue line pointing exponentially upward.??

?My God, what on earth is going to happen here?? the King County executive, Dow Constantine, said he was thinking as those in the room, increasingly uneasy about meeting in person, left the pastries untouched.??

That gathering, three days before?the World Health Organization declared a pandemic [ [link removed] ]?last March 11, set off a rush to contain the virus that included some of the country?s earliest orders to cancel large events, shutter restaurants and close schools, all in the hope that the dire possibilities in front of them would not come to pass.?

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