Timetable For A Vaccine Against The New Coronavirus? Maybe This Fall Recent advances in biotech make scientists optimistic that they might have a vaccine that has passed basic tests of human safety and efficacy ready to go to clinics as soon as this fall.
Week In Review City growth and city snow this week Bill Radke review the week's news with Eli Sanders, associate editor at The Stanger, Ashley Archibald, reporter for Real Change News, and Karen Weise, tech correspondent for the New York Times.
KUOW Newsroom Seattle Schools to turn away nearly 1,000 students missing vaccine records Seattle Public Schools plans to turn away students who have not met vaccination requirements today.
KUOW Newsroom Is your kid missing vaccines? Seattle Schools is offering one more free clinic Michael Anthony drove his 13-year-old daughter, Aunna, all the way from Tacoma to south Seattle to get a chicken pox shot.
Do You Really Need A Flu Shot? Here's How To Decide The internet abounds with myths about the relative risks of flu and flu shots, maybe partly because it's an annual shot and nobody likes needles. Here's the latest on what you might need — and why.
KUOW Newsroom First child flu death in King County — since 2009 A King County child died of complications from influenza in a Pierce County Hospital on Sunday, according to King County-Seattle Public Health.
KUOW Newsroom Seattle scrambles to vaccinate kids: 2,200 told not to come back without shots Seattle is one of the districts now enforcing a longstanding state law that says students must be barred from school if they lack required vaccinations or exemptions.
KUOW Newsroom One-tenth of Seattle students could be kept home for missing vaccination records Seattle Public Schools said it is missing immunization records for about one in ten students. The district sent letters to about 5,700 students’ families Oct. 28th notifying them that they will be barred from school beginning Jan. 8th if they still lack proof of the required immunizations, exemptions, or evidence that they are in the process of getting vaccinated.
One in ten Seattle Public Schools students could be barred for lack of vaccination records Seattle Public Schools said it is missing immunization records for about one in ten students. The district sent letters to about 5,700 students’ families Oct. 28th notifying them that they will be excluded from school beginning Jan. 8th if they still lack proof of the required immunizations, exemptions, or evidence that they are in the process of getting vaccinated.
All Things Considered Ghost Viruses And The Taliban Stand In The Way Of Wiping Out Polio The World Health Organization is celebrating the eradication of another strain of the polio virus. Yet major challenges remain in the global effort to get rid of the disease.
