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The group recommended that adults 65 and under with underlying health conditions, frontline essential workers, people 16 years and older in custody and those living in low income and senior housing.

The governor told the Oregon Health Authority it could release the information weekly but the agency said it will stick to daily reporting.

The state also allows fitness facilities to open to small groups, but each facility can have only four groups of up to six people at a time, and each group must be in a separate enclosed area.

The reallocation comes at a time when cases and hospitalizations are down but the need for vaccines is more urgent than ever with the presence of new variants in the United States.

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.

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.

Late last month Congress passed a nearly 5,600-page legislative package that included $900 billion for urgent pandemic relief, a ban on surprise medical bills and other non-COVID health care issues.

A union official tells lawmakers that these workers must not be made to wait in line for hours because they can’t afford to miss a day of pay.

The institution also said in a presentation prepared for its board that it is moving toward “making OHSU an anti-racist organization.”

The Oregon Health Authority said it lacks the personnel to continue releasing details but the decision means it will be impossible to track the effect of the governor's decision to delay the vaccination of seniors.