In 40 years of smoking, Katie Kennedy has tried four times to quit but always went back to cigarettes. Today, she is summoning a new mental image when a craving comes on: rows of COVID-19 patients hooked to ventilators.
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The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health agency has issued new emergency rules to help protect farmworkers from the coronavirus during the state’s fast-approaching field growing season.
After hearing for months about serious access issues involving tests that diagnose COVID-19 based on swabs from the nose or throat, Americans are being inundated with reports about promising new tests that look for signs of infection in the blood.
An internal video obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows the director of the U.S.
Karen Taylor had been coughing for weeks when she decided to see a doctor in early April. COVID-19 cases had just exceeded 5,000 in Texas, where she lives.
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Oregon’s harvesting season is fast approaching and farmworker advocates are worried. They fear that if new protections are not put in place, the health of pickers could be put at risk by the pandemic.
While most of the world hungers for a vaccine to put an end to the death and economic destruction wrought by COVID-19, some anti-vaccine groups are joining with anti-lockdown protesters to challenge restrictions aimed at protecting public health.
Oregon Health & Science University will cut the salaries of its non-union employees -- as much as 40% for the top-paid executives -- to cope with what President Danny Jacobs calls a “financial challenge of historic proportions.”
Gov. Kate Brown is moving towards reopening Oregon.
As a first step, she said she will allow health care providers to provide non-urgent surgeries and procedures starting May 1 if they meet certain criteria.
Gov. Kate Brown is moving towards reopening Oregon.
As a first step, she said she will allow health care providers to provide non-urgent surgeries and procedures starting May 1 if they meet certain criteria.
