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DR. LAUREL DESNICK, PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICER FOR THE PARK CITY-COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN MONTANA, PREPARES TO DELIVER BOXES OF NARCAN TO LOCAL HOTELS. THE FREE DISTRIBUTION OF NARCAN, THE BRAND NAME OF THE DRUG NALOXONE, WHICH CAN REVERSE OPIOID OVERDOSES, IS ONE PUBLIC HEALTH STRATEGY BORNE OUT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC./KATHERYN HOUGHTON/KHN

Public Health Agencies Adapt COVID Lessons To Curb Overdoses, STDs And Gun Violence

Health workers have started adapting lessons they learned from their COVID-19 response to other aspects of their work.

Aug 18, 2022

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New Vaccine Safety Study Could Answer Lingering Questions

A Kaiser Permanente researcher says her large-scale four-year study in the Portland and Seattle areas will help track a virus that’s still evolving.

Aug 9, 2022

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Everything You Need to Know About Paxlovid — Especially, Should You Take It?

Even as specialists in infectious diseases praise the treatment’s effectiveness, many doctors say they have questions about prescribing the drug and want better data.

Jul 28, 2022

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COVID-19 Sickening Thousands Of Oregonians A Week, While Monkeypox Causes Several Dozen Cases

State health officials said COVID-19 is straining hospital capacity, especially in central and southern Oregon.

Jul 20, 2022

PORTLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS SHOWN HEADING BACK TO SCHOOL IN 2021. WITH SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES IN FULL SWING, SOME DISTRICTS AGAIN REQUIRE MASKS./PHOTO COPYRIGHT: PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP (USED WITH PERMISSION)

Do Kids Need A Mask For Summer School? It Depends

Public health measures for summer activities in the Portland area will vary by school district.

Jul 12, 2022
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IN THIS FILE PHOTO FROM 2020, JASON COOK OF CLEAN WATER SERVICES PULLS A WASTEWATER SAMPLE FROM A SEWER IN FOREST GROVE, OREGON./TODD SONFLIETH/OPB

Oregon Wastewater Data Shows Far More People Have COVID Than Shown Through Testing

A rise in home testing and decrease in disease severity have masked a large increase in COVID-19 infections in Oregon, but the state’s poop doesn’t lie.

Jun 23, 2022

Families shown waiting last November for their turn at a pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinic for children ages 5 through11 years old at Clackamas Town Center./Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPB

Why Federal Approval Of A COVID Vaccine For Infants, Toddlers Took This Long

Federal health advisors last week authorized COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as six months old, the last age group to gain access to the vaccine.

Jun 21, 2022

Volunteer Jim Jackson of Portland cleans tables on May 2, 2022, as Blanchet House reopened for indoor dining following more than two years of closure due to the pandemic./Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPB

Lessons From Oregon’s 7th Wave Of COVID-19

Is SARS-CoV-2 on a path to behaving more like other cold viruses?

Jun 7, 2022

A NOVAVAX RESEARCHER SHOWN IN 2020/MARYLAND GOVPICS/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot But Is Angling To Win Over mRNA Defectors

The Novavax vaccine appears to cause fewer unpleasant reactions — fever, chills, and exhaustion — associated with mRNA vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech.

May 26, 2022

U.S. SEN. JEFF MERKLEY, D-OREGON, SHOWN HERE AT A PORTLAND CONFERENCE LAST DECEMBER, HAS BECOME INFECTED WITH COVID./RON COOPER/OREGON CAPITAL CHRONICLE

Sen. Jeff Merkley Contracts COVID-19

The latest member of Congress from Oregon to fall ill attributes his mild symptoms to being vaccinated and boosted.

May 24, 2022