May 6, 2021, 3:48pm Health
BELLINGHAM — Western Washington University in Bellingham and Central Washington University in Ellensburg will require students, staff and faculty to be vaccinated against COVID-19 when in-person classes begin this fall. Read story
May 6, 2021, 8:12am Health
GENEVA — Several world leaders on Thursday praised the U.S. move to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations by suspending patent protections on the shots. But it wasn't clear if that would actually lead to the measures being lifted — and what it would mean if they were. Read story
May 5, 2021, 2:25pm Health
SEATTLE — Washington health officials say they are seeing signs of hope in the COVID-19 case and hospitalization data and also now expect more consistent vaccine allocations from the federal government. Read story
May 5, 2021, 9:58am Health
NEW YORK (AP) — Teams of experts are projecting COVID-19's toll on the U.S. will fall sharply by the end of July, according to research released by the government Wednesday. Read story
May 4, 2021, 8:22pm Health
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for youngsters ages 12 to 15 by next week, according to a federal official and a person familiar with the process, setting up shots for many before the beginning of the next school year. Read story
May 4, 2021, 7:08pm Health
CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University has announced that it will require COVID-19 vaccinations before the fall term. Read story
May 4, 2021, 2:45pm Health
YAKIMA — State hospitals in Washington state must now report additional financial and patient demographic information to the state under a new law intended to increase transparency. Read story
May 4, 2021, 11:11am Editor's Choice
OLYMPIA — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said all of the state's counties will remain in their current phase of the state's economic reopening plan and won't face more restrictions because new COVID cases are levelling off after a recent spike. Read story
May 4, 2021, 8:00am Business
GENEVA — U.S. biotech company Moderna will provide up to 500 million doses for the U.N.-backed program to ship coronavirus vaccines to needy people in low- and middle-income countries, but shipments won’t begin until the fourth quarter, the company and program leaders said Monday. Read story
May 4, 2021, 6:02am Health
LOS ANGELES — Margie Garcia, the mother of an 18-year-old with autism, desperately wants her son to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Read story
