Joseph Rad, certified physician assistant and board member of the Marion Polk Medical Society (Courtesy/Marion Polk Medical Society) Joseph Rad was looking forward to seeing his parents over Thanksgiving for the first time in two years.  Rad, a board member of the Marion-Polk Medical Society, is a certified physician assistant.[Read More…]

Libby Anderson serves coffee at Archive with a mask and safe distancing on June 17, 2020. (Cathy Cheney/Salem Reporter) Diners have been cut off from sitting down for meals in the Salem area and county officials say they aren’t sure that’s a necessary move to contain the coronavirus.  Authorities in[Read More…]

Everyone is sick of Covid, but unfortunately, the coronavirus isn’t sick of us. With all the information available from federal, state and local health agencies, we know it can be hard to get an answer to a specific question, so Salem Reporter compiled some basics based on the reader emails[Read More…]

Dr. Doug Eliason (Courtesy/Salem Health) Dr. Doug Eliason compares efforts to stop the spread of Covid to avoiding a car crash. “Every time you go to your car and you turn your car on, you know that you’re risking an auto accident that could involve death or serious injury,” he[Read More…]

Viviana Gourley, medical assistant at Salud Medical Center, waits between patients at the center’s COVID-19 testing area on Wednesday, April 29. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing free access to crucial information as a community service. Please support our local work by subscribing or contributing to our[Read More…]

On the lawn of her Salem home, Amy Vandegrift has installed plastic headstones, one for every thousand American lives lost to COVID-19. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) With Halloween a week away, it’s not hard to find gravestones adorning local lawns. But Amy Vandegrift’s yard is more memorial than festive adornment. The[Read More…]

Davalee Meade, a paramedic with Woodburn Ambulance Service administers a COVID-19 test during a free drive-through testing clinic on Tuesday, August 25. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) The number of Marion County residents getting tested for Covid plunged in September following widespread wildfires, leading to a drop in total cases of the[Read More…]

Davalee Meade, a paramedic with Woodburn Ambulance Service administers a COVID-19 test during a free drive-through testing clinic on Tuesday, August 25. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] As Marion County enters the sixth[Read More…]

Tent sites at Wallace Marine Park on Wednesday, May 27. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter) [ NOTE: Salem Reporter is providing this information free as a community service. You can support dissemination by subscribing. ] Local health providers see low rates of Covid in Salem’s unsheltered population One Salem population appears to be[Read More…]