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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

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PHOTO COURTESY OF CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

What Ever Happened To Biden’s Pandemic Testing Board?

A year after President Joe Biden signed an order creating an entity modeled on FDR’s hugely successful Wartime Production Board, to be called the Pandemic Testing Board, there’s little trace of it.

Feb 22, 2022

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Covid-19 testing tents located across New York City./ELISABETH ROSENTHAL / KHN

Officials Struggle To Regulate Pop-Up COVID Testing Sites — And Warn Patients To Beware

Mobile COVID-19 testing tents and vans have sprouted on urban sidewalks and street curbs, sparking concerns about risks.

Jan 20, 2022

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Oregon Health Authority Creates New Hotline, Website For COVID-19 Patients

The state is taking a new tack, setting up ways for people to easily report positive COVID-19 test results to the state.

Jan 13, 2022

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Oregon Buys 6 Million At-home COVID Test Kits To Give Away Free

The Oregon Health Authority acts in anticipation of a surge in coronavirus cases tied to the omicron variant.

Jan 4, 2022

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OHSU nurse practitioner Shelby Freed tests a patient for COVID. | BRADLEY W. PARKS/OPB

Oregon Could Shield Health Care Providers From COVID-Related Lawsuits

Senate Bill 780 would protect hospitals and others from being sued for “acts or omissions” made because of emergency rules set by the government.

May 10, 2021

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Oregon Health & Science University staff collect samples of 600 people a day at two mobile testing sites in the Portland area. | OHSU

How COVID-19 Highlights the Uncertainty of Medical Testing

The emerging information about COVID-19 and a political environment that has sown misinformation and rendered science partisan have added to the difficulting of testing for the disease.

Dec 2, 2020

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Oregon Health & Science University offers drive-through COVID-19 testing at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland./Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPB

Why You Can't Test Your Way To A COVID-Safe Thanksgiving

Testing centers are facing an overload of demand, and even if people get a negative test, that doesn't mean they won't carry the virus home to their families.

Nov 23, 2020

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Health Authority Faces Hazy COVID-19 Outlook After Fires 

When the wildfires hit, testing plummeted so officials don’t really know what the current COVID-19 trend is in Oregon.

Sep 21, 2020

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Oregon Health & Science University staff collect samples of 600 people a day at two mobile testing sites in the Portland area. | OHSU

Oregon’s Coronavirus Testing Guidance Now Weaker Than Trump Administration's

The state does not recommend that anyone exposed to COVID-19 get tested even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its policy to recommend testing.

Sep 21, 2020