Other states have set minimums for hospital groups but Oregon is the first to set levels for individual hospitals, which have profited from the expansion of Medicaid.
Feb 17, 2021
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The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
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COURTESY OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
A meeting was disrupted by someone who played a video of a stabbing while yelling racist epithets and then joined a subsequent meeting and swore at the union while playing a racist song.
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.
Jan 29, 2021
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Oregon Health & Science University's sprawling west side campus.
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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.
Jan 6, 2021
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A nurse at Oregon Health & Science University was vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech shot on Wednesday.
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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.