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Salem’s vacant streets and businesses take on holiday feel, but unease lingers as the novel coronavirus outbreak continues

A closed sign in Engelberg Antiks in downtown Salem on Thursday, March 19. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. In Salem, residents can still hit the gym, but they can no longer get[Read More…]

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Oregon education system reeling from challenges presented by COVID-19 outbreak

NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions are vital to continue. With schools closed now through April 28, and colleges and universities told to move online to teach, educators and students across Oregon are facing a mass disruption in learning[Read More…]

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Inside Salem Hospital’s “incident command center” for COVID-19

Denise Hoover, incident commander for COVID-19 at Salem Hospital on March 19, 2020, addresses a group of hospital leaders during a daily briefing (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. A windowless ground floor[Read More…]

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Salem’s Divine Distillers joins craft spirit producers making free hand sanitizer

Jason Greenwood, head distiller and owner of Divine Distillers, pours homemade hand sanitizer into a jar to give out on March 19, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. Grocery stores and big[Read More…]

Worried they’ll be overrun by the coronavirus outbreak, hospitals call on governor to make the most restrictive move yet

Gov. Kate Brown details steps Oregon is taking to limit the spread of COVID-19 at a press conference in Portland on March 12, 2020 (Jake Thomas/Salem Reporter) The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems has called on Gov. Kate Brown to issue a shelter-in-place order requiring most businesses to[Read More…]

Oregon is running out of masks, gloves and gowns needed to protect health care workers from contracting the coronavirus

Pat Allen, director of the Oregon Health Authority, announces new state restrictions in a news conference in Portland on Thursday, March 12. (Jonathan House/Pamplin Media) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. Health care providers in Oregon[Read More…]

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THE LATEST: Headlines from around Oregon, the NW on the outbreak

Downtown streets were unusually empty in the afternoon on Tuesday, March 17. (Saphara Harrell/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. This digest provides all-in-one-place access to reporting on the novel coronavirus outbreak. A[Read More…]

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As school closure extends to six weeks, Salem-Keizer grapples with instruction, meals, graduation

Jared Vergara Santana, left, Evelyn Francis, right, Iris Johnson, right back and Lillyana Green, back left, work on newspaper articles at Hoover Elementary School. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions help support this. Salem-Keizer leaders are[Read More…]

Legislative panel tasked with coronavirus response presented with a bleak overview of the outbreak and possible responses

Oregon State Capitol FILE (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) DATE: 9/17/19 NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to its content related to the coronavirus as a community service. Subscriptions starting at $5 a month help support this. As the coronavirus outbreak continues to disrupt daily life across Oregon, legislators had their first discussion on[Read More…]