A mental health professional, who remembers his own attempts to kill himself three decades ago, says he wouldn’t have survived the same experience today.
Health care providers struggle to boost the current vaccination pace and soon the state could have more than 1 million doses from the federal government.
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.
Jan 7, 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.
It’s not immediately clear when the first vaccinations will begin, although a spokesperson for the Oregon Health Authority suggested it may be Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released detailed data on the COVID-19 capacity of hospitals across the country, including more than 60 in Oregon.
Dec 8, 2020
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Trillium's offices in Eugene.
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