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All vaccinations require consent and are logged./Josh Andersen/OHSU

Oregon’s Latest Vaccine Rollout Plan Mired In Uncertainty

A plan to put seniors after educators and school staff has drawn scrutiny among officials calling for the state to base its priority decisions on public health data.

Jan 15, 2021

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Hundreds of people were vaccinated at a drive through clinic at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland./Josh Andersen/OHSU

Oregon’s List Of Those Eligible For A Vaccine Could Triple -- Even Without Supplies

The state’s Vaccine Advisory Committee has decided the state should add seven more groups to the priority list that already includes nearly 1.4 million people.

Jan 15, 2021

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PFC Juan Carlos Rojas administers COVID-19 vaccine to licensed massage therapist with Serenity Hospice Jason Mayberry at the state fairgrounds in Salem. | ABIGAIL DOLLINS/SALEM STATESMAN JOURNAL

Oregon About To Double Vaccine Eligibility List As Providers Struggle To Get A Shot Amid Confusion

The state has only given one or two doses to about one-fifth of the 500,000 people currently eligible, and another 810,000 will be up for a shot starting Jan. 23.

Jan 13, 2021
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Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare walk-in clinic in Portland. | LYNNE TERRY/THE LUND REPORT

State’s Lack Of Funding Hits Behavioral Health Care Providers With Double Whammy

Companies like Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare have to keep their clinics open under a federal agreement while facing losses from the pandemic.

Jan 13, 2021
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Plan To Curb Rise In Health Care Costs Moving To Legislature

A committee that first met at the end of 2019 has come up with a proposed program to cap cost increases at 3.4% a year in Oregon.

Jan 13, 2021
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Children’s Mental Health Crisis Festers In Oregon

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.

Jan 12, 2021
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Oregon Hopes To Step Up Vaccinations; Bringing in National Guard

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.

Jan 8, 2021

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Vaccine Advisory Group Off to Slow Start

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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Dr. Louis Picker talks to a colleague in his lab at OHSU before the pandemic./OHSU

OHSU Lab Marks Milestone: Trial Of HIV Vaccine Launched

The vaccine, the brainchild of Dr. Louis Picker and Dr. Klaus Frueh, has been two decades in the making as the scientists have toiled to come up with a drug to fight the tricky virus.

Jan 6, 2021
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A nurse at Oregon Health & Science University was vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech shot on Wednesday. | FRED LIEDTKE/OHSU

OHA Opens Up Vaccinations To Wider Group, Backpedaling On Prior Plan

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.

Jan 5, 2021