The Oregon Health Authority reports four local deaths of people with Covid in the past week.
Tag: COVID IN OREGON
Long Covid continues to keep Oregonians out of workforce as state rebounds from job losses
Oregon is nearing a full recovery of jobs lost during the pandemic according to the Oregon Department of Employment. But the gains are uneven, and for some industries, and hundreds of thousands of Oregonians experiencing long Covid, the road ahead is still uncertain. Oregon has regained 94% of jobs lost[Read More…]
Oregon will now drop indoor mask requirement March 12
Used masks fill a garbage can at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Oregonians can drop their masks indoors starting March 12, Gov. Kate Brown said Monday morning. The announcement moves up by one week the timeline state health officials announced just days ago. Oregon had[Read More…]
UPDATED: Oregon to lift indoor mask mandate March 19, including in schools
Used masks fill a garbage can at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) This article was updated to reflect the lifting of the state executive branch employee vaccination mandate. Oregonians will no longer be required to wear masks indoors starting March 19, state officials announced Thursday[Read More…]
Hospitalizations from omicron decline faster than expected, OHSU forecast says
A nurse cares for a Covid patient in the intensive care unit at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Hospitalizations of patients with Covid-19 are declining faster than originally predicted, according to the latest forecast by Oregon Health & Science University. Peter Graven, OHSU’s Covid forecaster,[Read More…]
Oregon Health Authority has stockpiled more than 2 million rapid antigen tests
A rapid at-home Covid test (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) The Oregon Health Authority has stockpiled 2 million Covid-19 rapid test kits at its warehouse in Wilsonville, but does not know when they’ll be sent out. It is waiting for requests for the tests, according to Jonathan Modie, a spokesman with the[Read More…]
Oregon soon could be on the mend from the pandemic with an expected drop in cases, officials say
Dr. Dean Sidelinger, Oregon’s state health officer and epidemiologist.(YouTube screenshot) Oregon’s short-term Covid-19 outlook remains bleak, Oregon’s lead epidemiologist said Friday, with hospitals nearing a peak in the demand for hospital beds and case counts skyrocketing. But after that, the situation could improve, according to Dr. Dean Sidelinger, the state[Read More…]
Oregon schools no longer need to notify students of Covid exposures while masked
First grade students at Liberty Elementary School in Salem. Under new state recommendations, students and families wouldn’t be notified if they sit next to someone in class who’s diagnosed with Covid. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Schools in Oregon no longer have to notify students or teachers that they sat next to[Read More…]
Oregon’s Covid testing system “approaching maximum capacity” as omicron wave continues
Rapid Covid tests are in short supply, as this sign in a Salem Walgreens in Jan. 11, 2022 illustrates (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter) State health officials are deploying a mass Covid testing site at Spirit Mountain Casino and hiring hundreds more people to aid overwhelmed hospitals and long-term care facilities as[Read More…]
State corrections reports spike in Covid cases among employees, people in prison over past two weeks
(Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Covid cases have skyrocketed in the past two weeks among prisoners and staff at the Oregon Department of Corrections, leaving several state prisons short-staffed. As of Tuesday afternoon, the corrections department has reported 274 people in state prisons with Covid, spiking from 12 on Dec. 3, state[Read More…]
