(LEFT TO RIGHT) DONOVAN CHA, MAR BRASSEA, AND VIDA HAMPSON WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE A MATH PROBLEM IN ERIC MARSH’S THIRD-GRADE CLASS AT PRESCOTT ELEMENTARY IN PORTLAND, FEB. 8, 2022. IN OREGON, AFTER MARCH 11, SCHOOL DISTRICTS WILL BE FREE TO ADOPT THEIR OWN MASKING POLICIES./KRISTYNA WENTZ-GRAFF / OPB
After 9/11, the United States rapidly shifted resources to create a massive infrastructure to ferret out and combat terrorism while forgetting that terrorism of nature can be equally deadly.
Mar 29, 2021
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President Joe Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris./Shutterstock
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.
As with everything covid right now — testing, vaccinations and hospital capacity — ramping up contact tracing has become a race against time as new, more contagious variants of the virus threaten to accelerate transmission of the disease
Feb 10, 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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The area was late in adding seniors 65 and older to its eligibility list along with 50-year-olds in multigenerational households but is now on par with the rest of the state.
Jan 20, 2021
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This 2011 photo shows a youth reading a comic book in a typical cell at the Mulnomah County Donald E. Long Detention Center./Portland Tribune
Documents and interviews reveal that managers either haven't taken safety precautions seriously enough to prevent outbreaks or made decisions that have increased the risk of infection.