EDITOR’s Correction & Full Retraction.
Originally published on September 10, 2025
Burien.News is committed to providing accurate and trustworthy information. After reviewing our recently published article on Washington’s September 4, 2025 COVID-19 vaccine standing order, we determined it contained inaccuracies about the scope and effect of the order. Because accuracy is essential to our mission, we are retracting that article in full.
We are grateful to our readers who are thoughtful seekers of truth. We invite you to help us fulfill our mission which requires your continued feedback. Your engagement and careful attention brought these issues to light and prompted us to dig deeper in our research.
The Department of Health’s standing order primarily expands access to the COVID-19 vaccine by allowing qualified providers to vaccinate individuals six months and older without a prescription. It does not mandate vaccination, nor does it override parental consent laws.
To ensure readers have direct access to the facts, we are publishing the full text of the standing order below. We encourage everyone to review it for themselves.
We remain accountable to you, our readers, and thank you for holding us to the highest standards of local journalism.
6 Responses
As a parent, this is so frustrating to read about. Have we or have we not voted on Parental Rights several times already? The State Government continues to make decisions that reverse decisions that voters have already voted on. What is it going to take for Washingtonians to see before they realize that we are on a very slippery slope and our very freedoms are at stake? No Government, School District or Pediatrician should ever be able to decide what is right for my child or my family! That is my choice and mine alone! WAKE UP Washington Voters!
Vaccinated your own kids leave ours alone!! To many people i know trusted you and they are no longer here 🙁 I miss my friends and my family that the vaccine took from this world
This is literally fake news. The new directive doesn’t change the requirement for youth under the age of 18 to have consent from their parent or legal guardian to get a vaccine in the state if Washington. A quick search of the DOH website was able to debunk this claim…
Thank you for your feedback. We have fully retracted this article.
Thank you for clarifying the parental rights issue in your follow-up Editorial. The Dept. of Health website, doh.wa.gov, has this to say on Standing Orders:
“Standing Orders
Standing orders are protocols approved by a qualified health care provider. They allow patients to receive tests, vaccines, clinical services, or other health care without an individual prescription. They are not directives and do not require anyone to receive care. We use standing orders in a variety of settings for many kinds of health care. This page addresses public health standing orders issued by the Secretary of Health.”
Thanks to you and other readers who commented, we took a deeper dive and so fully retracted this article. Thank you for your important feedback.