File photo: Chas Hundley
Washington County's Mobile Vaccine Team has scheduled several Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination clinics in western Washington County in the coming weeks as the county works to combat the surging Delta variant.
The furthest west portions of Washington County not in the Portland Metro region have the lowest vaccine adoption rate in the county, according to zip code data tracking vaccination rates across the state from the Oregon Health Authority.
One exception to this is the community of Timber, which has pulled ahead of neighboring Buxton and Gales Creek by a wide margin. Timber's 97144 zip code now has a 63.2% vaccination rate—meaning those who have received at least one dose of a vaccine—compared to Buxton's 97109 at 45.4% and Gales Creek's 97117 . . .
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