(CNN) A hospital in Bellevue, Washington, has apologized for emailing about 100 benefactors an invitation to sign up for the Covid-19 vaccination. "We're pleased to share that we have 500 new open appointments in the Overlake COVID-19 vaccine clinic," said an email from an Overlake Medical Center, which also provided a special access code to register. Overlake sent the email to about 4,000 members of its community "including volunteers, retired nurses and physicians, all employees and about 100 donors from our Foundation database," according to a statement by the hospital. As of January 22, Washington is in Phase 1B tier 1 of the Covid-19 vaccine distribution, according to the state's health department website. This means all people over age 65 and those over 50 in multigenerational households are eligible to be vaccinated.

Source: The Nation January 28, 2021 03:33 UTC