There are 26 newly reported COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, one from Jefferson County, raising the state’s death toll to 6,648, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Katia Hetter, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new measure for determining Covid-19 community levels. According to these new metrics that now take into account hospitalizations and hospital capacity in addition to infection numbers, nearly 70% of the United States population resides in areas where masks are no
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Masks will be optional for customers indoors at Oregon DMV offices and inside cars during DMV drive tests starting Monday, March 14.
Continue ReadingBy ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s White House is outlining a strategy it says will allow Americans to return to many normal activities safely after two years of pandemic disruptions. It’s time to stop letting the coronavirus “dictate how we live,” the White House said Wednesday. The 90-page National COVID-19
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger and Shawna Mizelle, CNN Americans can order additional free at-home Covid-19 tests supplied by the US government starting next week. “If you already ordered free tests, tonight, I’m announcing you can order another group of tests. Go to Covidtest.gov starting next week and you can get more tests,” President Joe Biden said
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About four months after the Covid vaccine mandate took effect, unvaccinated workers at St. Charles, including registered nurse Saren love, have officially been let go.
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There were 40 newly reported COVID-19-related deaths over the past three days in Oregon, including one from Jefferson County, raising the state’s death toll 6,662, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday.
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With the Oregon National Guard scheduled to stand down its operations at St. Charles facilities over the next two weeks, St. Charles Bend is planning to close its drive-through COVID-19 test site on Friday, hospital officials said Tuesday as they also offered revised guidelines on who should or may not need testing.
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Most adults in the United States are getting back to some degree of pre-pandemic normalcy, but they’re divided over concerns and expectations for what’s next. Three surveys conducted in February — from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Axios/Ipsos and the Washington Post in collaboration with ABC News — asked adults to assess
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Sealy and Deidre McPhillips, CNN As the United States emerges from the Omicron wave, Covid-19 testing has slowed to a fraction of what it was at the beginning of the year. In mid-January, as daily case counts reached their peak, about 2.5 million tests were processed each day in the United States. Now,
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Senate Republicans said they moved Monday to amend Senate rules to end the masking requirements in the Senate Chamber, but Democrats rejected it.
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As case counts fall fast, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the governors of Oregon, Washington and California made a first-ever joint announcement of their “updated health guidance” on Monday, as Gov. Kate Brown said the state will lift indoor public-health masking requirements, including schools, just before midnight on Friday, March 11.
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN Plummeting Covid-19 case counts across the United States are leading to lifted mask mandates and more conversations about steps toward normalcy — but more people are dying of the coronavirus now than during most points of the pandemic. More than 2,000 Covid-19 deaths have been reported in the United States each
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Welcoming the state’s move to more quickly drop its mask mandate for schools — and amid union concerns and state agency threats to fine or cost the district federal funding — the Redmond School Board voted unanimously Monday to back off plans to make masks optional as of Wednesday, and instead will line up with revised state plans.
Continue ReadingBy Emma Tucker, Pooja Agrawal and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN New York will no longer require students to wear masks in schools beginning on Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Sunday, citing steep declines in Covid-19 hospitalizations statewide. Individual counties and cities with higher transmission rates may still require masks in schools, and parents and guardians may
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen and Jacqueline Howard, CNN Most people in the United States live in areas where those who are healthy do not need to wear masks indoors, according to new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance — a sweeping change from what earlier Covid-19 metrics recommended. New CDC metrics indicate that about
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There are four newly reported COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, two from Crook County, raising the state’s death toll to 6,582, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday — one day after 59 deaths were reported, one of the highest daily counts of the pandemic.
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There are 59 new COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, five from Central Oregon. raising the state’s death toll to 6,578, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
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Starting March 19th, mask mandates will be lifted for all indoor spaces in Oregon, including schools.
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press Canada has become the first country to authorize use of a plant-based COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine is made by Medicago of Quebec City and its partner GlaxoSmithKline. Canadian regulators said Thursday the two-dose vaccine can be given to adults ages 18 to 64. Medicago uses plants as living factories to grow
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