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Oregon Health Authority, Medicaid Insurers Haggle Over Vaccination Incentive Money

Facing pressure from coordinated care organizations, the health authority reduces its COVID-19 vaccination-rate goals for Medicaid members.

Jun 14, 2021
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State health officials are racing to win federal approval of Oregon Health Plan changes before Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, shown at the Oregon Convention Center vaccination site, leaves office. | KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF/OPB

Gov. Brown Defends Plan To Lift Mask Mandate

Although masks do provide some protection to the wearer, they are much better at preventing someone from spreading disease than they are at preventing someone from contracting it.

Jun 14, 2021

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Boeing Rejected Air Purifiers Like Those Widely Used In Schools

The company tested two kinds of technologies used in schools to combat germs and found that neither was effective enough to install on its commercial planes.

Jun 14, 2021

Clackamas Is Next County To Enter Lower Risk Category

State officials still expect Oregon to reach a 70% vaccination rate for adults by the end of June.

Jun 11, 2021

Advocates gather Thursday near the Oregon capitol to support legislation and policy to improve access to addiction recovery treatment. Each of the 1,206 flags represents someone who has died from drugs or alcohol./Ben Botkin/The Lund Report

Measures To Fight Addiction Are Stalled In Oregon Legislature

Advocates for better drug- and alcohol-addiction services urge lawmakers to take action on a range of bills.

Jun 11, 2021
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OHSU receiving a shipment of Pfizer BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccine. | OHSU/FRITZ LIEDTKE

Oregon Stockpiles Vaccines Amid Push To Increase Vaccination Rate

The state has enough supplies of Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson doses to last about 80 days at current vaccination pace.

Jun 10, 2021
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Medicaid Director Lori Coyner Shifts To New Role

Coyner will shepherd the negotiation of Oregon’s next five-year Medicaid agreement with the federal government.

Jun 10, 2021

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Women Now Drink as Much as Men — And Are Prone to Sickness Sooner

The latest U.S. data shows that women in their teens and early 20s reported drinking and getting drunk at higher rates than their male peers -- in some cases for the first time since researchers began measuring such behavior.

Jun 9, 2021

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An Anti-Vaccine Film Targeted to Black Americans Spreads False Information

“I was naive, certainly, in assuming that this was actually a documentary, which I would say it is not. I think that it is an advocacy piece for anti-vaxxers,” said medical historian Naomi Rogers.

Jun 9, 2021

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Unused Johnson & Johnson Covid Doses Pile Up as FDA Awaits Shelf Life Study

The Biden administration is encouraging Oregon and other states to hold on to hundreds of thousands of soon-to-expire COVID vaccine doses from Johnson & Johnson.

Jun 9, 2021

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