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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.

The outbreak at Rosemont Court, a North Portland senior housing complex, was traced to the water supply.

Starting this month, most people with private insurance will no longer have to decide whether they can afford to protect themselves against HIV.

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.

Government figures show the proportion of children who arrived in emergency departments with mental health issues increased 24% from mid-March through mid-October, compared with the same period in 2019.

Legacy and OHSU throw out dozens of coronavirus doses but Patrick Allen, director of the health authority, said his agency knew of no wasted vaccines.

Oregon Health Authority officials said at a news briefing Tuesday that hospitals should not be vaccinating all employees but instead should be focused on staff who could become infected.

A top health official at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver said he doesn’t know how COVID-19 spread from one patient to another 29 people, including 18 additional patients.