COVID-19 has claimed five more lives in Oregon, including Deschutes County’s 22nd death, raising the state’s death toll to 1,427, the Oregon Health Authority said Sunday.
Continue ReadingWith Christmas in the rear view mirror, public health experts are bracing for yet another surge in Covid-19 cases, similar to those seen after other US holidays in recent months. “We’ve just seen these amplification events, and that’s what’s happened at the end of this year in the US,” said Erin Bromage, an associate professor
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The state’s death toll from COVID-19 is unchanged from Friday and remains at 1,422, the Oregon Health Authority reported Saturday. It was the first daily count with no more deaths since Oct. 25.
Continue ReadingThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced new testing requirements for travelers arriving from the UK, but research by the agency’s own scientists shows the rule may have only a small impact on the spread of the new UK strain of coronavirus. Starting Monday in the UK, passengers must have a negative
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On this holiday, state health officials regret to report that the COVID-19 virus has claimed seven more lives in Oregon, including an 87-year-old Deschutes County man, raising the state’s death toll to 1,422, according to Oregon Health Authority data collected Friday.
Continue ReadingThe sad part about the thousands of Americans that will die in the coming weeks of the coronavirus pandemic is that they don’t have to have to happen, according to one health expert. “Every death that we’re talking about this afternoon is preventable,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of tropical medicine at Baylor College of Medicine,
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It was a holiday gift to Oregon bars and restaurants, as Gov. Kate Brown signed legislation Wednesday evening that allows them to serve cocktails and other alcoholic drinks to go, as well as deliver them.
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As resources from the massive federal coronavirus response package known as the CARES Act come to an end on Dec. 30, NeighborImpact is taking stock of how those have affected the Central Oregon landscape.
Continue Reading COVID-19 has claimed 12 more lives in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 1,415, along with 871 new cases, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
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At least a dozen mayors and mayors-elect across the state, including Prineville’s mayor-elect, have joined in a coalition that is urging small businesses to reopen Jan. 1, despite state COVID-19 restrictions.
Continue Reading COVID-19 has claimed 21 more lives in Oregon, including two in Jefferson County, raising the state’s death toll to 1,403, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
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This pandemic-affected holiday season has made for very different, yet busy times at Central Oregon restaurants offering takeout.
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In order to return as many Oregon students to the classroom as safely as possible in the new year, Gov. Kate Brown on Wednesday directed the Oregon Department of Education and the Oregon Health Authority to implement several new policy initiatives, with the goal of putting more school districts on track to return students to in-person instruction, especially elementary students, by Feb. 15.
Continue Reading Officials in southern Oregon say a “superspreader action” is likely behind two recent Covid-19 outbreaks. The action in question: A person knowingly went to work while sick and later tested positive for the virus, Douglas County officials said last week. Two separate Covid-19 outbreaks have now been traced back to that person, officials said. Seven
Continue ReadingThe Trump administration will purchase an additional 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer, the US Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday. Pfizer will deliver at least 70 million doses by June 30, and the rest will be delivered no later than July 31, according to a news release. With this agreement,
Continue ReadingOne of Oregon’s largest prisons experiencing another COVID-19 outbreak has been grappling with a major power outage for the last week.
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Oregon Housing and Community Services and Oregon Health Authority said Tuesday they are teaming up to address COVID-19-related health inequities through a shared investment in more than 100 community-based organizations around the state.
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In separate criminal cases, two Oregon men are facing federal charges for fraudulently converting to their personal use loans intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams.
Continue Reading COVID-19 has claimed 35 more lives in Oregon, including a 73-year-old Crook County woman, raising the state’s death toll to 1,382, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
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Gov. Jay Inslee has announced new travel restrictions for people arriving from the United Kingdom and South Africa where a new and seemingly more contagious strain of the coronavirus is circulating.
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