Six years later, COVID symptoms linger for many Latino farmworkers in Washington

The dizziness started while Baldomero Muñoz was working in the blueberry fields of Oregon. That didn't stop him. He kept picking. By the next morning, his head was pounding and his lungs ...
Yahoo

New COVID variant detected in Washington. How bad is it? Are current vaccines effective?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Does the new COVID variant bring a new set of symptoms and treatments? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reportedly ...

U.S. vaccine advisers drop plan to question mRNA COVID shots, WaPo reports

Some vaccine advisers under Robert F. Kennedy Jr sought to potentially stop recommending mRNA shots, but that plan is no ...

Confidential Report Calls for Sweeping Changes to Track Covid Vaccine Harms

A federal work group says Covid vaccine injuries deserve urgent attention, even as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Columbian

Want a COVID shot? What new federal and WA guidance mean for you

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines fill their syringes at Borinquen Health Care Center on May 29 in Miami. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) As Washington seeks to make COVID-19 vaccines ...
The Columbian

COVID vaccine available to all in WA 6 months and older

People in Washington 6 months and older can now receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine from pharmacies and medical clinics without a prescription, under a new standing order signed by the state health ...

Flu was again worse than covid this winter. Is that pattern here to stay?

Flu has overtaken covid in infections and hospitalizations during the winter respiratory virus season, and their virulence is ...
AOL

Researchers find more long COVID than expected in WA Hispanics

A significant percentage of 1,500 Latino patients in Washington state who had been diagnosed with COVID reported in a survey that they had experienced long COVID symptoms, according to a UW Medicine ...

6 years since COVID-19 pandemic began. What happened March 11, 2020

Six years ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Here's what else ...
Seattle Times

COVID arrived 5 years ago. How WA is looking back — and forward

The blue rubber gloves and N95 masks in a Seattle senior living community used to mark a time of isolation, fear, loss. Yet on a recent afternoon at Merrill Gardens in Ballard, these medical supplies ...

RFK Jr.’s advisers had a plan to target covid shots. Then it fell apart.

Some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel have publicly questioned the safety and manufacturing of the shots, including raising a debunked theory that DNA contaminants in the vaccines are ...
MyNorthwest.com

Rantz: Washington state misused COVID funds, now complains it’s being taken away

Washington Democrats decried the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Trump administration for cutting grants to health programs. But you’re not getting the full story. Attorney ...