Oregon Requires Health Insurers To Cover COVID-19 Vaccination Costs
Patients are not charged for the vaccine or the provider’s cost of administering it whether they have commercial insurance, Medicare, Medicaid or no insurance at all.
The Lund Report
Special Health Insurance Enrollment Period Opening
President Joe Biden created the special enrollment period between Feb. 15 through May 15 to help those who've lost their insurance as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout.
Racist Incident Disrupts OHSU Union Meeting
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A meeting was disrupted by someone who played a video of a stabbing while yelling racist epithets and then joined a subsequent meeting and swore at the union while playing a racist song.
Oregon Redistributes Vaccine As Some Counties Surge Ahead In Inoculating Priority Groups
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The state also allows fitness facilities to open to small groups, but each facility can have only four groups of up to six people at a time, and each group must be in a separate enclosed area.
Oregon Redistributes Vaccine, Loosens Restrictions
The reallocation comes at a time when cases and hospitalizations are down but the need for vaccines is more urgent than ever with the presence of new variants in the United States.
Universities Report More Potentially Problematic Virus Variants
Oregon State University has found numerous instances of a Southern California strain that’s caused several large outbreaks there, plus a highly infectious British strain.
Highly Infectious Strain Of Coronavirus Spreads In Oregon
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Oregon Health & Science University told The Lund Report it has identified a case of the variant that first emerged in Britain, following earlier announcements by the state of three cases.
Oregon's Looming Challenge: Vaccinating Essential Workers
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A union official tells lawmakers that these workers must not be made to wait in line for hours because they can’t afford to miss a day of pay.
OHSU’s Pandemic Economic Woes Largely Over
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The institution also said in a presentation prepared for its board that it is moving toward “making OHSU an anti-racist organization.”
Portland Area’s Vaccine Rollout Hits ‘Very Dark, Low Day’
The Oregon Health Authority responds to a plea from public health officials from Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties for more vaccine to inoculate the tens of thousands in category 1a.
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