Also in this edition: Clean City Initiative Update
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2020 has brought several unpredictable challenges to Seattle. The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemicare still being felt in our city, region and country.
Seattles road to recovery starts with vaccinations,and whilewe have hundreds of employees working our vaccination efforts, we still have to deal with an unstable and unpredictable vaccine chain.This week, the City of Seattle and90% of providers across the state faced delays in shipments because of winter weather across the country.
Fortunately,the Seattle Fire Department and our health care providers worked tolimit the impacts to already scheduled appointments.
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Photo from Alen Berner, The Seattle Times
We are deeply committed to ensuring our BIPOC communities and immigrant and refugee communities have equitable access to the vaccine. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate and devastating toll on BIPOC and immigrant and refugee communities we have to remedy that in our vaccine efforts.Weve worked with Public Health Seattle & King County to create strong principles for equitabledistributionincludingfocusing on the highest risk and most impacted, partnering with community based leaders,making registration easy,addressingtransportationand mobility, ensuring language access,and providingvaccinationsregardless of immigration status.
As we focus on equitable distribution, ourSeattle Firemobile teamsareaddressingdisparities that we are seeing.Every day, we are evaluating the data to see inequities indistribution.It isclear that there is a gap in vaccinatingBlack andLatinx communities and communities in South Seattle andWest Seattle.You can find vaccination datahere [ [link removed] ].
King County vaccination data and map
In King County, Latinx residents make up 24 percent of confirmed COVID-19 cases and nearly 18 percent of hospitalizations, yet they represent 10 percent of King Countys population. At 6.5 percent in King County, Latinx communities have a lower rate of vaccination than their share of the population.
Last week, West Seattle, South Seattle, Delridge, and Highline have the lowest vaccination rate of people 65 and older among all Seattle neighborhoods.
So this week, the City with our limited doses focused on vaccine efforts in South Seattle and West Seattle. Were proud that to-date, approximately 70 percent of the 5,000 residents that weve vaccinated identify as BIPOC.
While were prepared to scale our vaccine efforts to include mass sites and more community pop-ups, doses continue to be extremely limited. Well continue our focus on serving eligible individuals in our most impacted areas and high risk residents in adult family homes, senior affordable housing and partnerships with strong community based organizations such as El Comite, Villa Comunitaria, the Senior Center of West Seattle, Eritrean Community in Seattle & Vicinity, Filipino Community of Seattle, and the Central Area Senior Center (CASC).
The Citys efforts show that we can take an equity focused approach to vaccine distribution, it just requires deliberate attention and effort.
For now, we all still need to follow public health guidance. This means masking up, physical distancing, and caring for our neighbors.
Stay safe and healthy,
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Mayor Durkan Visits U District to Meet With Community Members and Small Business Owners
Mayor Durkan tweets about her visit to the U District to meet with community members and small business owners
This week, the Mayor did a walking tour with theU District Partnership.COVID-19 has been devastating for so many small businesses in Seattle. While the City has been working hard to support small business owners across the city with stabilization funds and grants, it is always helpful to talk to business owners, and workers.
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City of Seattle Receives 1,500 First Doses, 1,000 Second Doses of the Moderna Vaccine for Upcoming Week; City to Vaccinate Older Adults Living in Affordable Housing, Eligible Latinx Communities in Pop-up Vaccination Clinics
"To-Date, Seattle Fire Department Mobile Vaccination Teams Have Provided 4,722 Vaccinations to Vulnerable Seattleites"
Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the City of Seattles plan for the upcoming week of vaccinations administered by the Seattle Fire Department (SFD) Mobile Vaccination Teams (MVT). This week, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) allotted the City of Seattle with 1,500 first doses of theModernavaccine and 1,000 second doses of theModernavaccine. The SFD MVTs will continue providing first doses of the vaccine toPhase 1B, Tier 1 [ [link removed] ]eligible older adults living in affordable housing buildings, and Phase 1B, Tier 1 eligible older adults, with a focus on Latinx communities living in West Seattle, South Park, and South Seattle.
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Over 1,000,000 pounds of trash collected in January 2021 from parks, neighborhood streets, and business districts across the city through Clean City Initiative
In January, the newClean City [ [link removed] ]Initiative ramped up efforts and collected over 1 million pounds of garbage and properly disposed of over 26,000 needles through trash pick-up or enhanced maintenance at over 60 locations across the city.
The pandemic has taken a toll on our community in many unseen ways, one is the growing graffiti, trash and garbage in parks and on streets. The Clean City Initiative has increased our focus on removing trash to begin to set Seattle up for clear road to recoveryfor our businesses, schools, neighborhoods, and residents. We have much more work ahead to deliver for our residents and businesses said Mayor Jenny Durkan. Thank you to the many hard-working City employees who are getting our city cleaned up in partnership with our neighborhood businesses and residents.
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At Fourth State of the City Address, Mayor Jenny Durkan Discusses Plan for Equitable Vaccine Distribution and the Vision for Seattle On the Other Side of the Pandemic
In a year of unprecedented challenges, Mayor Jenny A. Durkan delivered her fourth State of the City address at the Filipino Community of Seattle. Emphasizing the challenges magnified during the pandemic including homelessness, public safety, systemic racism, and climate change, she highlighted her plan for an equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and outlined her vision for Seattle to reopen and recover, especially downtown.
Mayor Durkan helped launchAll In WAs $15 million Vaccine Equity Fund [ [link removed] ], which seeks to invest in trusted, community-based organizations who can conduct linguistically and culturally-specific vaccine education and outreach, as well as safely facilitate mobile and pop-up vaccine clinics for those who want to get vaccinated.
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WEEKEND READ: Washington State Wire: Durkan, Best and Juneau discuss the ups and downs of serving as women in public leadership
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, and Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau
"Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, Former Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best, and" "Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau met Wednesday to discuss the ups and downs of serving as women in leadership. Town Hall Seattle and Seattle University Institute of Public Service Hosted the penultimate digital installment of The Conversations."""
"Moderated by journalist Joni Balter and Dr. Larry Hubbell, longtime former director at Seattle Universitys Institute of Public Service, Durkan, Best, and Juneau considered the preparation it takes to rise up into a vital leadership position."
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