They say that the second vaccine shot for COVID-19 is rougher than the first one — and we’re not just talking about the side effects. As a newly double-vaccinated member… Read More
As data shows racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, a new study has found racial and ethnic inequities across nearly a decade of U.S. vaccine trials. Minority communities and older… Read More
As Washington residents struggle to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations, a volunteer team of software engineers has created an online solution. COVIDWA.COM provides a list of sites providing vaccinations and… Read More
Let’s start with the good news. The number of new COVID-19 cases in the greater Seattle area, Washington state and the national level have all been declining since early January,… Read More
Amazon is hosting another COVID-19 vaccination clinic on its Seattle headquarters campus on Sunday, a week after the tech giant’s first pop-up effort resulted in 2,400 people receiving a shot… Read More
After all the talk and concern, hope and urging, Bill Gates arrived this week at a critical point in his journey as an outspoken proponent for the science needed to… Read More
Trying to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine on the day that eligibility was expanded to new age groups in Washington state would be a familiar experience to anyone… Read More
Nearly 10 months after being the first person to receive a shot in the first U.S. clinical trial of a vaccine for coronavirus, Seattle’s Jennifer Haller is concerned less about… Read More
With a resume that includes Microsoft, Amazon and the shipping powerhouse Convoy, Seattle’s Greg Akselrod is hardwired for data. And the numbers around the support for the COVID-19 vaccine troubled… Read More
As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday evening approved the first COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, experts are reassuring the public of its safety. The message is: while… Read More
The good news is that Operation Warp Speed, the multibillion-dollar effort to develop vaccines for COVID-19, is moving ahead at a pace that justifies its name. The bad news is… Read More
[Update 2/16/21: HDT Bio announced an additional $3 million in seed financing, bringing the round, led by Zoic Capital, to $6 million. The funding will support the biotech company’s three… Read More
University of Washington School of Medicine researchers using a cutting-edge approach to vaccinations report that their COVID-19 vaccine is performing well in mouse and non-human primate studies. The vaccine checks… Read More
A researcher with ties to Seattle-based biotech company OncoSenX has received a $4.2 million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for work on a COVID-19 vaccine. John Lewis,… Read More
The head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says he’s hopeful that a COVID-19 vaccine will be available by the end of this year — if all goes well.… Read More
A public-private partnership called Operation Warp Speed is aiming to get multiple vaccines approved by the end of the year to protect against COVID-19 — but two veterans of the… Read More
Seattle’s Infectious Disease Research Institute is working with Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine to multiply the doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine by 30 to 100 times. Other partners in… Read More
Massachusetts-based Moderna’s share price — and the stock market as a whole — were lifted today by the company’s encouraging report about a coronavirus vaccine trial that got its start… Read More
The coronavirus vaccine trial that started out in Seattle is progressing well enough to get onto Food and Drug Administration’s fast track for development, with planning well underway for the… Read More
Bill Gates has been big on vaccines since before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but in a new blog posting, the Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist says the only… Read More
Despite a potential vaccine, the novel coronavirus could return on a seasonal basis, much like the flu, according to Seattle-based company Adaptive Biotechnologies. That’s one of the reasons Adaptive is… Read More