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33 results for: COVID-19 Pandemic

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"Covid-19 Vaccinated" button, 2021
These buttons were used in early 2021 at Skyline Retirement Community in Seattle. Because COVID-19 was particularly dangerous for people over 65, that group was one of the first to have access to the recently approved vaccines.
ID Number:2024.62.1
Date:2021
Image of Box for BinaxNow COVID-19 home tests, 2021

Box for BinaxNow COVID-19 home tests, 2021
Home test for Covid-19 became available to the public in late 2021. This specific box of tests was given to the donor as a gift for Christmas in 2021 during a surge in cases due to the Omicron variant.
ID Number:2024.CovidBoxes.1
Date:2021
Image of Box for iHealth COVID-19 home tests, 2021

Box for iHealth COVID-19 home tests, 2021
Home test for Covid-19 became available to the public in late 2021. This iHealth brand was the one distributed for free by the federal and state government. The public could request tests through a website which would limit the number per household over a certain period. Many of these were distributed by Amazon and arrived to Seattleites Amazon packaging.
ID Number:2024.CovidBoxes.2
Date:2021
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