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Washington's largest mass vaccination site opens at Lumen Field
SEATTLE – Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and King County Executive Dow Constantine toured Seattle’s first mass vaccination site on its opening day.
The mass COVID-19 vaccination site opened at the Lumen Field Event Center on Saturday. With the current vaccine supply, the site will initially vaccinate around 5,000 people a week but is equipped to vaccinate as many as 150,000 people a week or about 22,000 a day at full capacity when supply increases.
Officials say they plan on vaccinating around 2,200 people on Saturday.
The vaccination site is a collaboration between the City and Swedish. Eligible King County residents can sign up to be notified via email when appointments are available.
The state is currently vaccinating people in the Phase 1A thru Phase 1B, Tier 2 categories. This includes anyone 65 and older, all people 50 and older who live in a multigenerational household, health care workers at high risk for COVID-19, first responders, educators, child care workers, people who live or work in long-term care facilities, and all other workers in health settings who are at risk of COVID-19.
On Friday, President Joe Biden announced that states must make all American adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine no later than May 1.
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