By Stella Chan, CNN California will add the Covid-19 vaccination to immunizations required for in-person school attendance, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced in San Francisco Friday morning. It’s the first state to do so. The requirements will be phased in by grade groups — 7-12 and K-6 — and will start for each group only after
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Lack of trusted medical sources, traumatic past experiences with medical care and widespread misinformation have contributed to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among Latino communities, a new Oregon State University study found.
Continue ReadingCNN By Karl de Vries and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for Covid-19, the Supreme Court said Friday, the first publicly known case of coronavirus among the high court’s justices. Kavanaugh, who is fully vaccinated, tested positive on Thursday night, the court said in a statement. The justice’s immediate family tested
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SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) — The tents are going up. The stages are being set. And the 2021 Sisters Folk Festival is on.
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There are 20 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, one a 77-year-old Deschutes County woman, raising the state’s death toll to 3,791, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
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The impacts of the hospital capacity crisis created by the surge in infections from the Delta variant and a staffing shortage continued in the second quarter of 2021, according to a newly released financial performance report from Apprise Health Insights.
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There are 21 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 3,771, the Oregon Health Authority reported Wednesday, also issuing a weekly report showing a decline in deaths, cases and hospitalizations.
Continue ReadingCNN, WLKY, WSB By Madeline Holcombe and Christina Maxouris, CNN Some governors are beginning to report encouraging signs in their state’s Covid-19 numbers, but warn of what could come next if more people don’t get vaccinated. Covid-19 hospitalizations and ICU utilization have decreased over the past week in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear announced at a
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The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit challenging Gov. Kate Brown’s initial mask mandate, saying the requirements have been revised so many times the issue is moot.
Continue ReadingBy Eric Levenson, CNN Mandates that require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 have spurred workers to get vaccinated in recent weeks — yet some holdouts have been suspended or lost their jobs, and workplaces are scrambling to cover potential shortages. The tradeoff — a disrupted workplace in the short term in exchange for widespread
Continue ReadingBy Nikki Carvajal, CNN The White House believes vaccine requirements for large private companies are still weeks away from being implemented, weeks after President Joe Biden announced the new mandates were coming. During a press briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the administration hopes to have “more detail” on the regulations
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There are 41 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including a Jefferson County resident, raising the state’s death toll to 3,750, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
Continue ReadingCNN, CNNBUSINESS By Clare Duffy, CNN Business YouTube will remove videos spreading misinformation about any approved vaccine, not only those aimed at preventing Covid-19, the company announced in a blog post Wednesday. In a statement provided to CNN Business, YouTube also confirmed it would remove the channels of “several well-known vaccine misinformation spreaders” under the
Continue ReadingCNN, WCBS, WWNY, SPECTRUM NEWS NY1, NEWS 12 LONG ISLAND By Rebekah Riess, CNN Novant Health, a North Carolina not-for-profit system of 15 medical centers with more than 2,300 physicians, said this week it had terminated roughly 175 employees for non-compliance with its mandatory Covid-19 vaccination program. More than 99% of Novant Health team members
Continue ReadingCNN, WITI By Madeline Holcombe and Holly Yan, CNN Once heralded as a leader in vaccinations, West Virginia now has one of the lowest rates in the country. And it’s losing dozens of residents every day to Covid-19. “We’re gonna lose a bunch more people, West Virginia, no question about that,” Gov. Jim Justice said
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The need for air ambulance emergency flights has increased in Central Oregon, in large part due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oregon is experiencing a downward trend in COVID-19 hospitalizations and cases after a crippling late-summer surge, but Gov. Kate Brown said Tuesday she was “gravely concerned” about an outbreak in the northeastern part of the state following the Pendleton Round-Up rodeo.
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Pfizer booster dose vaccinations are now available for eligible individuals at many locations across Central Oregon, health officials said Tuesday.
Continue Reading There were 27 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon reported over the weekend, including a Jefferson County resident, raising the state’s death toll to 3,606, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday.
Continue ReadingBy Anna Chernova, CNN Russia reported its highest Covid-19 death toll in a single day on Tuesday with 852 coronavirus-related deaths recorded in the past 24 hours, according to the country’s coronavirus response center. The previous all-time high was recorded four days ago, on September 24, when 828 deaths were registered. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov
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