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Amayah and Yara Perez-Da Silva will finish the year in distance learning out of concern for their grandfather and Yara, who has asthma. /Courtesy of Karen Perez Da Silva

Families Face Deadline To Decide: Stay Home Or Go Back To Class

Some school districts have already started sending students back into the classroom, while others have laid out reopening plans and are surveying families.

Feb 15, 2021

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Can Pfizer and Moderna End the Pandemic by Sharing Their Vaccine Designs? It’s Not that Simple

Social media posts say that Pfizer and Moderna are inadvertently hurting the public by not sharing their technology with other pharmaceutical companies to help speed up the manufacturing process and distribution.

Feb 15, 2021

Portland-area health systems have set up a mass vaccination site at the Oregon Convention Center/OHSU

Virus Thwarts Vaccine In Four 'Breakthrough' Cases As Oregon Ramps Up Vaccine Drive

In these cases, a person tests positive for COVID-19 at least two weeks after they received the second of the required two doses.

Feb 12, 2021
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Lack of Covid Data on People with Intellectual Disabilities ‘Comes With a Body Count’

Early studies have shown that people with intellectual and developmental disabilities have a higher likelihood of dying from the virus than those without disabilities, likely because of a higher prevalence of preexisting conditions.

Feb 12, 2021

As Drug Prices Keep Rising, State Lawmakers Propose Tough New Bills to Curb Them

The measures would impose taxes on increases in the price of drugs that don’t reflect improved clinical value and set the rates paid by state-run and commercial health plans to a benchmark based on prices in Canada.

Feb 12, 2021

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