Dozens of employees expressed solidarity with the plaintiff and dismay at OHSU over its alleged handling of sexual assault allegations involving a former anesthesiology physician who’s known for his dance videos.
Mar 1, 2021
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The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
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COURTESY OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
A meeting was disrupted by someone who played a video of a stabbing while yelling racist epithets and then joined a subsequent meeting and swore at the union while playing a racist song.
Oregon State University has found numerous instances of a Southern California strain that’s caused several large outbreaks there, plus a highly infectious British strain.
Jan 29, 2021
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A microscopic photo shows the novel coronavirus emerging from cells.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Oregon Health & Science University told The Lund Report it has identified a case of the variant that first emerged in Britain, following earlier announcements by the state of three cases.
Jan 28, 2021
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Oregon Health & Science University's sprawling west side campus.
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The institution also said in a presentation prepared for its board that it is moving toward “making OHSU an anti-racist organization.”
Jan 27, 2021
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Oregon Health & Science University and SEIU Local 503 held a COVID-19 vaccine clinic for home health workers at the Oregon Convention Center./Josh Andersen/OHSU
In Portland and Salem over the weekend, hospital providers held COVID-19 vaccination clinics for thousands of home health care workers and others not affilitated with hospital systems who risk becoming infected.
Jan 11, 2021
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Dr. Louis Picker talks to a colleague in his lab at OHSU before the pandemic./OHSU
The vaccine, the brainchild of Dr. Louis Picker and Dr. Klaus Frueh, has been two decades in the making as the scientists have toiled to come up with a drug to fight the tricky virus.
The university can only enroll several hundred people in a clinical trial, given its timeframe, so it is picking volunteers who are at high risk of severe symptoms and infection.
The institution seeks volunteers for a promising vaccine developed by Oxford University in Britain in collaboration with AstraZeneca, a British pharmaceutical company.