A King County official has proposed a budget amendment that would add $5 million in Cares Act dollars to help distribute a vaccine once it becomes available. | Pixabay
A King County official has proposed a budget amendment that would add $5 million in Cares Act dollars to help distribute a vaccine once it becomes available. | Pixabay
A King County official has proposed a budget amendment that would add $5 million in Cares Act dollars to help distribute a vaccine once it becomes available.
Reagan Dunn, King County Council Vice Chair, made the proposal on the heels of news a promising COVID-19 vaccine could soon be ready. Under the proposal, the money would be set aside for the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health and other local health care providers across the county. Dunn said the amendment would put people who live in King County "first in line" to receive the vaccine. It would also be used to help private health care systems in the area were poised to help in the process too.
"King County wants to be on our toes, not our heels when a vaccine is ultimately ready for manufacture and distribution to our citizens, and this is the vital first step," Dunn said in a release posted on the county's website.
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