Health care workers work in the intensive care unit at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The Covid-19 pandemic in Oregon has reached a dire stage, with the Oregon Health Authority advising hospitals how to ration care when they run out of beds, and officials warning[Read More…]
Tag: COVID IN OREGON
‘We’re definitely into the omicron wave,’ says Oregon’s top health care official
Health officials are hoping that an uptick in booster doses will prevent some peole from being hospitalized for omicron. (Fritz Liedtke/Oregon Health & Science University) After watching coronavirus skyrocket elsewhere in the country, Oregon health officials are now tallying a spike in coronavirus cases in the state. On Tuesday, the[Read More…]
Cost of Covid: Hospital stays longer, more costly for difficult treatment
Registered nurse Dajanay Ash tends to a patient in intensive care in Saint Alphonsus Medical Center in Ontario. (Malheur Enterprise/LILIANA FRANKEL) Getting hospitalized with Covid in an intensive care unit can result in a weeks-long ordeal, near-death experiences – and costs that range to six figures, according to health authorities[Read More…]
What we know about breakthrough Covid cases in Oregon
A Sept. 16, 2021 graph from the Oregon Health Authority shows the rate of new Covid infections among vaccinated and unvaccinated Oregonians. NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this free to the community as a public service to keep residents informed. Please share and please subscribe to support this reporting. The number of Oregonians[Read More…]
AROUND OREGON: Oregon Medical Board revokes license of Dallas doctor who bucked Covid guidelines, spread misinformation
The Oregon Medical Board revoked the license of a Dallas doctor earlier this month after he refused to follow COVID-19 guidelines in his office, spread misinformation about masks and over-prescribed opioids to his patients, according to medical board documents. The board also fined Steven Arthur LaTulippe $10,000 on Sept. 2.[Read More…]
National Guard to be deployed Friday to Salem Hospital as Covid surge continues
A nurse cares for a Covid patient in the intensive care unit at Salem Hospital on Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this free to the community as a public service to keep residents informed. Please share and please subscribe to support this reporting. About 100 members[Read More…]
Governor won’t relent on vaccine mandate, saying Covid deaths ‘unacceptable and preventable’
Gov. Kate Brown in her Portland office in 2020. (FILE/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this free to the community as a public service to keep residents informed. Please share and please subscribe to support this reporting. Gov. Kate Brown pushed back hard Thursday on public officials urging her to drop her[Read More…]
Uncategorized Here’s who’s covered under Oregon’s vaccination mandates for health care, K-12 education
Dr. Katherine Landen, emergency department medical director at Salem Hospital, displays her employee badge after receiving Salem’s first Covid vaccine on Dec. 17, 2020 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this free to the community as a public service to keep residents informed. Please share and please subscribe to support this[Read More…]
Uncategorized Statewide mask requirement starts Friday as Marion County Commissioners push for local control
Gov. Kate Brown stands in the library at Lincoln Elementary School during a visit on the first day back to in-person learning in Woodburn, Ore. on Thursday, April 1, 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) As the state’s hospitals again fill with Covid patients, Oregonians will be required to wear masks inside[Read More…]
Uncategorized Gov. Brown mandates masks indoors, state employee Covid vaccination
Gov. Kate Brown speaks with Woodburn School District acting superintendent Juan Larios in the library on the first day back to in-person learning at Lincoln Elementary School in Woodburn, Ore. on Thursday, April 1, 2020. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) Masks are making a comeback in Salem, and across Oregon. Gov. Kate[Read More…]
