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Spokane doctor addresses vaccine hesitancy as infectious diseases return
SPOKANE, Wash. — Spring may not seem like cold and flu season, but respiratory viruses are spreading differently this year, prompting the Washington Department of Health to extend RSV vaccines for infants another month. The unusual patterns have highlighted growing concerns about vaccine hesitancy as infectious diseases like measles...
KXLYcom 4 News Now
Spokane doctor addresses vaccine hesitancy as infectious diseases return
SPOKANE, Wash. — Spring may not seem like cold and flu season, but respiratory viruses are spreading differently this year, prompting the Washington Department of Health to extend RSV vaccines for infants another month.
The Center Square
Spokane eyes $50K for PFAS water pitchers, filters amid state-mandated cleanup
(The Center Square) – Spokane might buy hundreds of PFAS-filtering water pitchers as the city, county and their jointly-owned airport face a state mandate to provide clean drinking water to the West Plains. The Spokane International Airport had used firefighting foams containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, for years before discovering them in groundwater in 2017. Experts often refer to PFAS as “forever chemicals” because they take so long to break down and are known to cause cancer. The contamination didn’t just affect SIA; it spread to properties across the West Plains, affecting both residential wells and the water that feeds nearby crops. The city of Spokane, Spokane County, and SIA entered into a state-mandated cleanup in January, which also requires supplying clean drinking water. Last month, the Department of Ecology extended a Feb. 24 deadline for the liable parties to submit a short-term interim action plan to March 20. That plan must include how they will sample private wells and provide bottled water or filter systems to a roughly 30-square-mile area surrounding the airport. While the details are limited as the city, county and SIA work on a plan, pieces of that are now coming out. The city
ncwlife.com
Spokane eyes $50K for PFAS water pitchers, filters amid state-mandated cleanup
(The Center Square) – Spokane might buy hundreds of PFAS-filtering water pitchers as the city, county and their jointly-owned airport face a state mandate to provide clean drinking water to the West Plains. The Spokane International Airport had used firefighting foams containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, for...
inlander.com
Washington State University opens primary care clinic inside Logan Elementary; pulls nursing students out of Yakima after 50 years
Over the past few years, Spokane Public Schools has partnered with CHAS Health to open clinics inside nearly all of the district’s high schools. This week another clinic opened at Logan Elementary School, however, it’s the first school-based clinic in the district supported by Washington State University. In...