A mental health professional, who remembers his own attempts to kill himself three decades ago, says he wouldn’t have survived the same experience today.
Jan 12, 2021
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Oregon Health & Science University and SEIU Local 503 held a vaccine clinic at the Oregon Convention Center./Josh Andersen/OHSU
Of the more than 6 million people in the U.S. who have received a COVID-19 vaccine shot, about 30 have suffered a severe allergic reaction -- about five times the rate for flu shots.
Jan 11, 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.
The outbreak, infecting 49 staff members and patients, started Dec. 20 in a unit that treats patients who need ongoing, intense care for a stroke or brain injury, for example.
Health care providers struggle to boost the current vaccination pace and soon the state could have more than 1 million doses from the federal government.
The group of 27 members representing a large number of minority groups has until next month to advise the state on who should be next in line to be offered a vaccine.
Amid a deadly virus outbreak that has hit Latino communities hard, Illinois decided to provide public health insurance to all low-income noncitizen seniors.