The milestone comes as Oregon speeds up its vaccination expansion to include more demographic groups, with many frontline workers and people aged 16 to 44 with underlying conditions soon eligible.
Mar 24, 2021
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Long-term care facilities suffered outbreaks and fatalities amid slow action by the Oregon Health Authority./Sharri Anderson
Gov. Kate Brown updates COVID-19 risk levels that put 28 counties in moderate or lower risk.
Mar 23, 2021
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Audrey Kuehl, a study coordinator at the Clinical Research Institute of Southern Oregon, inoculates Trish Malone with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.
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Migrant workers, frontline workers and multi-generational households are among the groups that will become eligible for vaccination sooner than expected.
Mar 19, 2021
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Four Portland-area hospital system are running the Oregon Convention Center site while Salem Health is in charge of the fairgrounds in Salem.
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Residents are finding it easier to drive to the Oregon State Fairgrounds and get vaccinated than to secure an appointment in Portland because of an uneven allocation of doses among counties.
Mar 18, 2021
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Oregon's vaccine campaign will open to everyone on May 1 following a federal order./Oregon Health & Science University
With three vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — now authorized for emergency use in the United States, there seems to be hope that the pandemic’s end may be in sight.