CNN By Travis Caldwell, Sara Sidner, Stephanie Becker and Dan Przygoda, CNN For the second year in a row, weary doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic are preparing to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients over the Christmas holiday as the highly transmissible Omicron variant drives up case counts across the United States.
Continue ReadingCNN, THE WHITE HOUSE By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Biden administration scored a significant victory Friday in its court battles to enforce various federal Covid-19 vaccine mandates, with an appeals court ruling that the government can enforce its vaccine-or-testing rule for companies with more than 100 employees. Soon after the order came down, those challenging
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There are five new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 5,531, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday.
Continue ReadingBy Oren Liebermann, CNN The Marine Corps has discharged 103 service members for refusing to take the Covid-19 vaccine, as the military begins carrying out enforcement actions for its vaccine mandate. As of this week, 95% of active duty Marines are vaccinated, according to the latest data from the Marine Corps released Thursday, but the
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Despite only three confirmed cases so far of the highly contagious omicron variant in Oregon, Gov. Kate Brown and health officials warned Friday that based on global data, the state’s peak number of hospitalizations since the start of the pandemic — about 1,200 —could more than double by the end of February, possibly even top 3,000, as an Omicron wave hits.
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Covid-19 is causing headaches for professional leagues and university sports programs, who find themselves faced with having to reschedule games or find new opponents in the upcoming days.
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There are 19 newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 5,527, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Almasy and Homero De la Fuente, CNN Covid-19 has become the main opponent of several professional leagues and university sports programs as teams are forced to change their game plan in the face of positive tests or coronavirus exposure. The cancellations and postponements are the latest disruption in the US due to
Continue ReadingCNN By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow a vaccine mandate aimed at certain extra health care workers to go into effect nationwide, marking the first time the justices have been asked to weigh in on a federal mandate the Biden administration
Continue ReadingCNN, PFIZER, MODERNA, J&J By Maggie Fox, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its recommendations for Covid-19 vaccines Thursday to make clear that shots made by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech are preferred over Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine. The new recommendation: “mRNA vaccines are preferred over the Janssen Covid-19 vaccine for the prevention
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There are 39 newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 5,508, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday.
Continue ReadingBy Paula Newton, CNN Canada issued a travel advisory to its citizens Wednesday asking that they avoid all nonessential international travel as the Omicron variant spreads throughout the world. “We see the situation abroad, and we’re afraid and concerned with what could happen to Canadians who would choose to go abroad in the next few
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There are 49 newly reported COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including three in Central Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 5,469, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Ivana Kottasová, CNN The Omicron coronavirus variant is spreading at a rate not seen with previous variants, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned, adding that the tendency to dismiss it as mild is concerning. Speaking during a news conference on Tuesday, Tedros said the variant has been detected in 77 countries.
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN South African researchers added new details Tuesday to what’s known about the Omicron variant of coronavirus, confirming that vaccines provide less protection against the new strain but also saying they still see indications that Omicron causes milder symptoms than previous variants. There seems to be little doubt that Omicron is highly
Continue ReadingCNN By Nikki Carvajal and Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday praised Pfizer’s report that its experimental treatment for Covid-19 cut the risk of hospitalization or death by 89% if given to high-risk adults within a few days of their first symptoms. “I am encouraged by the promising data released by Pfizer today,
Continue ReadingCNN By Faith Karimi and Deidre McPhillips, CNN On December 14, 2020, nurse Sandra Lindsay rolled up her left sleeve at a New York City hospital and became one of the first people in the US to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The vaccine was from Pfizer/BioNTech, and it had been authorized for emergency use only
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With just a few weeks before the end of the year, the film industry is still struggling to make a comeback after a historic blow in 2020 due to the pandemic.
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Oregon’s first three cases of Omicron-variant COVID-19 have been confirmed in Washington and Multnomah counties, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday evening.
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Oregon Governor Kate Brown visited Camp Withycombe on Monday, taking part in a demobilization ceremony and recognizing Oregon National Guard members mobilized around the state that were activated to support hospitals and mass vaccination clinics during the COVID-19 Delta surge.
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