When could you get the vaccine?

WASHINGTON STATE–The government roll-out of vaccine distribution which began before Christmas, has met management issues fostering inoculation delays or holds.

The federal government's "Operation Warp Speed" to develop a COVID-19 vaccine certainly wasn't secret. Governor Inslee and his Department of Health had many months to prepare for distributing the two approved vaccines received by our state before Christmas. Yet by the middle of this week Washington ranked 38th of the 50 states in administering the COVID vaccine doses on hand, with 25.8% of the shots used. In the United States as a whole, the rate is 29.7%. At this rate, the vaccine distribution will end up being another entry on Inslee's long record of mismanagement. Yet just today, even though the state has not done well at getting the vaccines where they're needed, Inslee and several other governors sent a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, demanding more doses and calling it "unconscionable" that the feds hadn't distributed them already.

For what it's worth, the Department of Health's so-called "phase finder" tool is now online. It may help people get a better sense of when the vaccine could be available to them. Visit the link contained in the graphic above, findyourphasewa.org..