Also in this edition: Community Vaccination Pop-Ups, and Walk-Up Vaccinations
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This week, the City and our partners have been working tirelessly to increase vaccine availability and outreach in every part of Seattle.
Currently, 71.9% of Seattle residents have received at least one dose, and vaccinating our residents and workers is a race against the variants.
This week, we announced new Seattle Fire mobile vaccinations in our busiest parks, beaches, small businesses, and neighborhoods. We announced no appointments necessary for all the vaccine hubs at Lumen Field, Rainier Beach, North Seattle, and West Seattle. We also announced our vaccination partnership with the Seattle Sounders and Mariners. Spectators at both T-Mobile Park and Lumen Field are able to receive their COVID-19 vaccination, with no appointment needed. This will be an ongoing availability at home games and matches until further notice.
Mayor Durkan at T-Mobile Park
Governor Inslee announced this week Washington State would be pausing the Healthy Washington: Roadmap to Recovery [ [link removed] ] reopening plan for two weeks. Our region may be turning a corner on the fourth wave, and the pause is welcome news for a record level of Seattle residents and small businesses who are seeking vaccinations. Although King County remains in Phase 3, more aggressive variants show that we are not out of the woods yet.
Just like we saw at the beginning of this pandemic, Seattle residents are stepping up, listening to the science, and doing what they know works to protect themselves and their communities. The best and easiest way to be protected from the dangerous COVID-19 variants in our community is by quickly getting vaccinated. Everyone has more ways to get a vaccine than ever before, and we are so close to putting this pandemic behind us once and for all. Please continue to follow the best practices that we know are effective at slowing the spread of this virus: wash your hands, avoid crowded gatherings, wear a mask, and get vaccinated.
Vaccines save lives - you can go to seattle.gov/vaccine [ [link removed] ] to book today. The website also contains vaccination information in seven languages, and in-language assistance is also available over the phone.
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Click the photo to see what Seattle is most looking forward to, after getting vaccinated
If you have already been vaccinated, be a good neighbor and help your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers get vaccinated by sharing these links throughout your communities. If you have any questions, the City encourages you to review our “What to Expect” website [ [link removed] ].
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Stay Safe and Healthy,
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Need a Vaccine? Come to a Vaccination Pop-Up in Your Neighborhood and Shop Your Block!
Mayor Durkan with Councilmember Pedersen in the city's U-District
Mayor Durkan and Councilmember Pedersen at the University District Vaccination Pop-Up
The City of Seattle [ [link removed] ] will be hosting pop-up vaccinations in multiple neighborhoods to ensure that small businesses, workers, and community members can easily receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Seattle Fire Department [ [link removed] ] (SFD) will host the vaccination pop-ups and partner with the Seattle Office of Economic Development [ [link removed] ] (OED) and neighborhood partners to connect residents and workers in the surrounding neighborhoods to the thousands of available COVID-19 vaccines for individuals that are 16 years of age and older. These vaccination pop-ups are low barrier, and do not require advanced registration to participate. Walks ups are encouraged and welcomed!
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Lumen Field Event Center, Rainier Beach, and West Seattle Vaccination Sites Now Accepting Patients Without Appointments
Seattle Fire Department Tweet about administering 100,00 vaccines [ [link removed] ]
Mayor Jenny A. Durkan announced that all people who live or work in King County can now walk or roll up to the Lumen Field Event Center, Rainier Beach, and West Seattle vaccination sites, and get vaccinated without an appointment. Vaccinations without an appointment are available for those seeking a first or a second dose. As of April 30, an estimated 68 percent of Seattle residents had begun the vaccination process, and 41 percent are fully vaccinated.
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How to Make Technology Work During the Next Crisis
Mayor Durkan at the U.S. Digital Response panel [ [link removed] ]
Click the photo to watch the virtual panel
On May 5, U.S. Digital Response brought together a virtual panel of some of the best in government and technology to reflect on what’s happened over the last year, how we’ve supported communities in need, what we’ve learned, and what digital response efforts will look like in future crises. While better data and technical tools are not a perfect panacea, it’s important that we, as technologists and public servants, try to use all of the tools at our disposal, especially the technical ones, to do all that we can to make progress on these fronts.
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President Biden’s First 100 Days
Tweet from Mayor Durkan about the Restaurant Revitalization Fund [ [link removed] ]
The Biden-Harris Administration marked President Biden’s first 100 days in office with the launch of a “Getting America Back on Track” tour. Their first 100 days included key programs that are already helping our small businesses.
The Paycheck Protection Program [ [link removed] ] supports small businesses with grants and Seattle’s Office of Economic Development is assisting Seattle business owners in applying. The Restaurant Revitalization Fund [ [link removed] ] opened May 4 which will support Seattle’s many great restaurants.
The proposed American Families Plan [ [link removed] ] would fund pre-k and community college education, mirroring the City’s successful Seattle Promise & Seattle Preschool programs. The proposed American Jobs plan would fund vital infrastructure investments on everything from bridges [ [link removed] ] to clean water [ [link removed] ] to transportation electrification [ [link removed] ].
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Mayor Durkan Joined Former Department of Justice Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. to Discuss the Future of the Department of Justice
Graphic for Columbia University’s Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights
Mayor Jenny A. Durkan joined a panel this week hosted by Columbia University’s Eric H. Holder Jr. Initiative for Civil and Political Rights. The American Voter Project: The Department of Justice (DOJ) discussed the road ahead for the DOJ under the Biden administration. Mayor Durkan shared details how the Department of Justice can be partners with cities on gun violence, policing, and voting rights.
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WEEKEND READ: Mariners offer vaccinations during games
Mariners spectators receiving the COVID-19 vaccination
By Daniel Kramer
It began last Tuesday when Stanton’s office reached out to Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan asking how the Mariners -- who’ve already been among the most aggressive in vaccine education and awareness in all of baseball -- could help the governing and medical bodies further.
“If you come here and you have been vaccinated, stay tuned for some special announcements we'll be making in the next 48 hours with respect to incentives to get vaccinated and come to see a game,” Stanton said.
The vaccine supply in Washington state, which had a slower rollout than other states, has now reached more supply than demand, which allowed for the Mariners and Sounders to join the distribution efforts.
As of Tuesday, 70 percent of Seattle’s population ages 16 and older -- those eligible to receive the vaccine -- have at least the first dose of the two-dose vaccines Moderna or Pfizer or the single-dose Johnson & Johnson, according to Durkan.
“It's a remarkable threshold that we've reached,” Durkan said. “And it shows how much people care about each other and their family. And it shows that we as a city, throughout this pandemic have stood up to do the right thing for ourselves, for our neighbors for our community. And we're here today because our teams have done that to showing the way.”
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