Washington state hospital apologizes after inviting donors to sign up for Covid-19 vaccine; CNN, January 28, 2021

 Andy Rose and Amir Vera , CNN; Washington state hospital apologizes after inviting donors to sign up for Covid-19 vaccine

"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.

The email was obtained by The Seattle Times.

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."