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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈​🇨🇦🇺🇦

#washingtonstate's Department of Health @WADeptHealth sends out a newsletter for vaccine providers every two weeks. (Sorry, I can't find a link, but you can subscribe to this newsletter at public.govdelivery.com/account). This is what they just sent out about the status of #covid #covid19 vaccines. It appears to be written after RFKJr's Roblox or whatever announcement but before yesterday's CDC sort-of walkback.

Thoughts and prayers to the health policy comms professionals who have to explain this mess.

Newsletter screencap. Text says: Latest News FDA COVID-19 Vaccine Updates Earlier this week in a social media posting, Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced changes to the recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines for healthy pregnant women and healthy children on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) immunization schedules. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is yet to receive or locate any formal communication or publication about this change from CDC, and at the time of this statement, their immunization schedule remains unchanged. Providers should continue to offer and administer COVID-19 vaccines to all patients 6 months and older.
We know that you have many questions and concerns in regard to this announcement. DOH will continue to monitor these events and keep our partners informed of any changes to our own guidance and recommendations. Please feel free to reach out to the Childhood Vaccine Program (WAChildhoodVaccines@doh.wa.gov) or the Adult Vaccine Program (WAAdultVaccines@doh.wa.gov) if you have questions.
Timeline of Recent Events: On May 27, 2025, the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner (Dr. Marty Makary), and the National Institutes of Health Director (Dr. Jay Bhattacharya), announced the COVID-19 vaccine will no longer be among the recommended vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s immunization schedule. On May 22, 2025, The FDA advisers recommended that manufacturers make no changes to the COVID-19 vaccine that will be available for boosters later this summer. Read the official announcement: COVID-19 Vaccines (2025-2026) for Use in the US Beginning in Fall 2025. The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBAC), met to discuss and make recommendations on the selection of the 2025-2026 Formula for COVID-19 vaccines for use in the United States. The committee voted 9-0 that the 2025-26 vaccines should stay the same, containing a single JN.1 strain, which has been dominant globally since 2024. The FDA has not held any further meetings nor issued a final rule or policy to clarify whether this year’s COVID-19 vaccine boosters would be required to conduct new trials. The FDA framework published May 20, 2025, in the New England Journal of Medicine, urges companies to conduct large, lengthy studies before tweaked vaccines can be approved for healthier people.
On May 17, 2025, the FDA gave full approval for Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, which previously only had emergency use authorization. The FDA limited the vaccine’s use to adults older than 65 years and anyone older than 12 years at high risk. In June 2025, ACIP is expected to consider its recommendations for use of COVID-19 vaccines for preventing COVID-19 disease. On April 17, 2025, The FDA, instructed Pfizer and Moderna also to update labeling to expand a warning about myocarditis and pericarditis. Pfizer’s label warned of an elevated risk in men 12- to 17-year-olds, Moderna’s in men 18- to 24-year-olds. Both will now cite an elevated risk in men aged 16 years to 25 years.
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cremevax👩🏻‍💻🏳️‍🌈​🇨🇦🇺🇦

Hello, it’s the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots.

A quick reminder that this King County respiratory disease data comes from Washington State, not the federal government.

Let's start with the West Point (WSPT) sewage treatment plant. The 7-Day running average of the Sars-CoV-2 levels went down slightly. Last data is from 5/20.

WSPT is one of three King County(-ish) sewersheds in this dataset. You can find overviews, individual sewershed results, and a breakdown of variants for the state wastewater surveillance program, along with other metrics like case counts and hospitalizations for Covid-19 and other respiratory illnesses, at doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistica. If you go to the page and click "learn more" in the statewide view tab, you can find out lots of details about how these data are calculated and how to interpret them. The dashboard gets updated every Wednesday (generally). New! the Department of Health is here on the fediweb, at @WADeptHealth

A screencap of the Washington State Department of Health's Covid wastewater data for the West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant. The trend line of the graph is described in the toot text.
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DoomsdaysCW

HT @crlamke

Double Trouble for #Repair Monopolies: Washington Passes Two #RightToRepair Bills - #iFixit

Today, a quarter of Americans are covered by electronics Right to Repair

Article by: Elizabeth Chamberlain
@liz_ifixit
May 19, 2025

"We’re running out of high-fives over here.

"#WashingtonState just became the sixth state in the country to pass Right to Repair for electronics and the third to guarantee repair access for powered wheelchairs. Governor Bob Ferguson signed two bills into law today: #HB1483, covering consumer electronics and appliances, and #SB5680, covering mobility devices like powered wheelchairs and scooters. That’s a one-two punch for repair access and another major victory for fixers everywhere.

"Right to Repair is officially on a roll: With Washington now joining #NewYork, #California, #Minnesota, #Oregon, and #Colorado, about a quarter of all Americans (over 82 million people) live in states with electronics Right to Repair protections. That’s a huge share of the population who can now access parts, tools, and repair documentation for their devices. And it shows that the repair movement isn’t niche anymore. It’s national."

ifixit.com/News/110039/double-

iFixit · Double Trouble for Repair Monopolies: Washington Passes Two Right to Repair BillsBy Elizabeth Chamberlain
#SolarPunkSunday#ReduceReuseRepair#FixIt
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CBC Top Stories

Canadians recall blast, fine ash from 1980 volcanic eruption at Mount St. Helens
It's been 45 years since the Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington state. British Columbians who were young adults at the time remember how the sky changed as the volcanic ash arrived.
#volcano #history #nature #MountStHelens #Washingtonstate #BritishColumbia
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

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CBC Canada

Canadians recall blast, fine ash from 1980 volcanic eruption at Mount St. Helens
It's been 45 years since the Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington state. British Columbians who were young adults at the time remember how the sky changed as the volcanic ash arrived.
#volcano #history #nature #MountStHelens #Washingtonstate #BritishColumbia
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

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Kelsey Jordahl

Got out yesterday to explore a less traveled part of Washington State. I've been wanting to check out the area where the Palouse to Cascades Trail and the Columbia Plateau Trail cross. Both are rail-to-trail paths now operated by Washington State Parks, and both are pretty chunky gravel (though on the sections I saw, the CPT was worse). Bypassed some of the chunky section for gravel road, and just beat the rain back to my car. The intersection of the two trails was at this trestle, with no path to transfer between them, just a steep unmarked scramble.

Bike leaning on a gate on the Columbia Plateau Trail. Trail is chunky gravel passing through a cut in the basalt bedrock.
Old railroad trestle at the spot where the Columbia Plateau Trail passes over the Palouse to Cascades Trail. Both trails are former railroad beds now operated by Washington State Parks.
Gravel road winding uphill with ominous dark clouds looming above. Yellow road sign gives 35 mph limit.
Abandoned building on the side of a gravel road, with puffy gray clouds overhead.
#WashingtonState#Gravel#BikeTooter
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CBC British Columbia

Canadians recall blast, fine ash from 1980 volcanic eruption at Mount St. Helens
It's been 45 years since the Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington state. British Columbians who were young adults at the time remember how the sky changed as the volcanic ash arrived.
#volcano #history #nature #MountStHelens #Washingtonstate #BritishColumbia
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

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