Mayor: Portland can’t require COVID-19 vaccination for cops
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mayor Ted Wheeler confirmed Wednesday that state law prohibits Portland from making police officers get vaccinated against…
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Oregon reports 47 more COVID-19 related deaths, 2,352 cases, 1,138 hospitalizations
There are 47 new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 3,373, the Oregon Health Authority reported…
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Officials: Oregon infant dies from COVID-19 complications
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Officials say an infant in southwest Oregon has died from COVID-19 complications. The News-Review in Roseburg reports the…
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Oregon reports 54 more COVID-19 related deaths, 2 from Deschutes County, 5,821 new cases in four days
There have been 54 new COVID-19 related deaths reported in Oregon over the past four days, raising the state’s death toll to 3,326, the Oregon…
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Florida judge allows school mask mandates to continue despite governor’s appeal
By Mallory Simon, CNN A Florida judge ruled against Gov. Ron Desantis on Wednesday and allowed schools in the state to mandate face-masks while the…
Continue Reading COVID-19 deaths overwhelm morgue in Cowlitz County
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A recent increase in COVID-19 deaths has overwhelmed a southwest Washington county’s storage capacity, prompting the…
Continue Reading Police may be exempt from employee vaccine mandate
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland city officials because of new guidance may exempt the police bureau from an order that all employees be fully…
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Fact-checking the misinformation about Oklahoma hospitals and ivermectin
CNN By Daniel Dale, CNN A story went viral last week about Oklahoma hospitals and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug some Americans are taking to…
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Gov. Brown, state officials, doctor plead for Oregonians to wear masks, get vaccine
Governor Kate Brown will hold a press availability on Tuesday at 11 a.m., to discuss Oregon’s ongoing response to COVID-19.…
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COCC, Jefferson County, NeighborImpact partner on COVID-19 vaccine clinic
Central Oregon Community College and Jefferson County Public Health, together with NeighborImpact, are bringing a free COVID-19 vaccination clinic to…
Continue Reading Idaho hospitals begin rationing health care amid COVID surge
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders are letting the state’s northern hospitals ration health…
Continue Reading Mandates and testing among Biden’s plans to combat Delta surge
CNN By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden, entering autumn with coronavirus still wreaking havoc on the nation’s health…
Continue Reading Delta variant outbreak threatens Singapore’s ‘living with Covid’ model
By Ben Westcott, CNN Singapore has warned it may need to reimpose Covid-19 restrictions if a new outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant is…
Continue Reading Children make up more than a quarter of the weekly US Covid-19 cases, pediatricians’ group says
By Jacqueline Howard, Amir Vera and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Children now represent more than a quarter — or 26.8% — of weekly Covid-19…
Continue Reading Child Covid-19 cases increased nearly 240% since July, pediatricians’ group says
CNN, WLOX, KCAL, KCBS, WRAL, WJRT, WISH By Jen Christensen and Amir Vera, CNN Covid-19 infections have risen “exponentially” among…
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How to protect children under 12 from Covid-19, according to Fauci
CNN By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci says there’s an important step adults can take to protect children who are too young to be…
Continue Reading Local health departments planning for potential Covid-19 booster rollout, but there is still ‘some confusion’
CNN By Jacqueline Howard, CNN It’s not clear if or when boosters doses of Covid-19 vaccines will be OK’d for fully vaccinated people in…
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Washington state workers union agrees to COVID vaccine mandate terms
Days after suing to block what is believed to be among the nation’s strictest COVID-19 employee vaccine mandates, Washington’s largest state…
Continue Reading Schools still have billions of federal Covid relief money to spend
By Katie Lobosco, CNN Congress authorized more than $190 billion to help America’s schools reopen and stay open during the pandemic — and…
Continue Reading ‘Surprised and disappointed.’ Doctors in Covid-19 hotspots last year are dealing with new record hospitalizations
CNN By Travis Caldwell, CNN With the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 sweeping across the country this summer, health care workers and…
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