The Oregon Health Authority responds to a plea from public health officials from Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties for more vaccine to inoculate the tens of thousands in category 1a.
Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties have closed their signup form, leaving about 50,000 people in the metro area without an appointment.
The area was late in adding seniors 65 and older to its eligibility list along with 50-year-olds in multigenerational households but is now on par with the rest of the state.
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The site, which is being organized by Kaiser Permanente, will open Wednesday and operate through Saturday. It will reopen Monday with three other health care companies.
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The $10,000 fine stems from the arrest in June 2019 of Dr. Patrick Conway who was set to become CEO of Cambia as part of a partnership deal.
The state’s Vaccine Advisory Committee has decided the state should add seven more groups to the priority list that already includes nearly 1.4 million people.
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The state has only given one or two doses to about one-fifth of the 500,000 people currently eligible, and another 810,000 will be up for a shot starting Jan. 23.
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.
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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.
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The state is only allowing health care workers to be vaccinated -- not all employees of a hospital like Oregon.
