CNN By Aya Elamroussi, CNN Three-quarters of eligible Americans have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and some are now able to receive an additional booster shot. But the virus still poses a great threat to more than 70 million eligible people who remain unvaccinated. “The most vulnerable are those unvaccinated,” Dr.
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would grant emergency use authorization for a booster dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine in people 65 and older, people at high risk of severe disease and people whose jobs put them at risk of infection. “After considering the totality of the available
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Sens. Ron Wyden and Bob Casey applauded the Biden Administration Wednesday for publishing user-friendly data on the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations among residents and workers at more than 15,000 individual nursing homes across the country.
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More than half of Oregon’s state employees have an extra six weeks to get fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a deadline has been pushed back to Nov. 30. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the change affects about 24,000 state employees represented by the Service Employees International Union 503 out of about 42,000 state executive branch employees. The
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CNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will work with Congress to double again the United States’ financial commitment to help developing nations confront the climate crisis. Biden pledged in April the US would increase its contribution to global climate financing to $5.7 billion per year, putting his new commitment at
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There are 30 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 3,624, the Oregon Health Authority reported Tuesday.
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There are 25 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon over the past three days, three from Central Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 3,594, the Oregon Health Authority reported Monday.
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Fox, CNN A two-dose version of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine provides 94% protection against symptomatic infection, the company said Tuesday — making a two-dose regimen of J&J’s Janssen vaccine comparable to a two-dose regimen of Moderna’s or Pfizer’s. Plus, the company said, adding a booster dose to a single shot of the
Continue ReadingCNN, KPIX By Devan Cole, CNN San Francisco Mayor London Breed is defending herself after flouting the city’s indoor mask mandate, criticizing “fun police” for raising questions about her recent appearance at a live concert where she was seen dancing and posing for photos without a mask on. In video shared on social media, Breed,
Continue ReadingBy Holly Yan, CNN Despite all the scientific and medical advances of the past 103 years, the Covid-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 flu pandemic did. More than 675,000 people in the United States have died from Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University. That surpasses the estimated US death toll from
Continue ReadingBy Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN The United States plans to ease travel restrictions on all fully vaccinated foreign visitors starting in November, the White House said Monday, relaxing a patchwork of bans that had begun to cause fury in Europe and replacing them with more uniform requirements for inbound international air
Continue ReadingCNN By Madeline Holcombe and Theresa Waldrop CNN The daily pace of new Covid-19 vaccinations in the United States is the lowest it has been since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking it in mid-January, data shows. The seven-day average rate of people getting their first shot is 231,695, 31% less than
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Hundreds gathered at the Oregon Capitol on Saturday to protest Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates.
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Hundreds gathered in Redmond on Saturday to rally in support of those who are in jeopardy of losing their job if they don’t get the COVID-19 vaccine by the state mandate’s Oct. 18 deadline.
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Dominguez, CNN At least 125 part-time employees at Indiana University Health system, the largest physicians network in the state, have lost their jobs for not complying with Covid-19 vaccination requirements, a spokeswoman said Friday. “Indiana University Health has put the safety and well-being of patients and team members first by requiring employees to
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Concertgoers at the Les Schwab Amphitheater will have access to free COVID-19 testing before each event, starting Friday.
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There are 22 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, including the 100th death of a Deschutes County resident, raising the state’s death toll to 3,569, the Oregon Health Authority reported Friday.
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Officials from the Food and Drug Administration convened medical experts Friday to discuss
Continue ReadingCNN By Maggie Fox and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday voted unanimously to recommend emergency use authorization of Pfizer’s booster shot six months after full vaccination in Americans 65 and older as well as those at high risk of severe Covid-19. That vote came after the group
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Dozens of people in Oregon have contacted the state’s poison center after self-medicating against COVID-19 with a drug used to treat parasites, with five becoming hospitalized and two of them winding up in intensive care units, authorities said Friday.
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