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by Blair Stenvick • Jan 15, 2021 at 9:48 am
Dentist Ryan Thrower vaccinates Ansu Drammeh against COVID-19 last month at OHSU.
Earlier this week, Oregonians got some rare positive news about the COVID-19 pandemic: Due to a change in the federal government s vaccine rollout strategy, the number of people in the state eligible to get vaccinated was increasing substantially. Specifically, K-12 teachers and all Oregonians 65 and older could sign up to get their first vaccine dose this month.
Now, thanks to a massive fuckup from the Trump administration s Operation Warp Speed program, those optimistic plans are in danger.
Friday morning, Gov. Kate Brown announced that officials from the federal vaccine rollout effort had deceived her, by stating that they were releasing all the vaccine doses in the federal stockpile enough to vaccinate all those teachers and elderly Oregonians. In fact, Brown said in a statement, states will not be receivi
Historic moment: Oregon dentist first dentist in the US to administer COVID-19 vaccine
Dr. Ryan Thrower is the first dentist in the nation to administer a COVID-19 vaccine. She called it a historic moment in U.S. history. Author: Christelle Koumoué (KGW) Updated: 12:02 PM PST December 27, 2020
PORTLAND, Ore. Dr. Ryan Thrower graduated from the School of Dentistry at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) last spring. I wanted to be a dentist to have someone that little girls and little brown boys could look up to and could say, ‘O.M.G. that’s attainable. I want to do that one day, said Dr. Thrower.
First COVID-19 vaccines arrive in Northwest
Some of the first doses go to caregivers at Catholic hospitals Oregon Health & Science University administered its first COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 16 when cardiovascular intensive care nurse Ansu Drammeh received an injection of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine from dental resident Ryan Thrower. Thrower is the first dental resident in the U.S. to give a COVID-19 vaccine, thanks to the 2019 passage of Oregon House Bill 2220, which made Oregon the first state to enable dentists to prescribe and give vaccines to their patients, regardless of their age. (OHSU/Fritz Liedtke)
select âI feel like a pioneer,â said Schaeffer Seabrooks after getting the shot. (Screengrab)