How Washington state hospitals are preparing for ‘unprecedented’ rollout of coronavirus vaccine

Nearly 3,000 people have died of COVID-19 in Washington and upward of 1,100 are hospitalized now with the disease.

A fall wave of infections has shuttered bars, glued children to computer screens rather than whiteboards and forced hospitals to delay life-altering surgeries. 

Experts promised a dark winter. Hold on for vaccines, they said: The cavalry is coming.

Now it’s here.