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Ending the Pandemic Means Getting Vaccinated. But Many Oregonians Will Be Hard to Convince. These groups, and others, will need to drop their opposition to vaccination for the shots to work statewide. (Wesley Lapointe) Updated January 6 As Oregonians wait to get a COVID-19 vaccination, many overlook that we are all waiting on our fellow Oregonians to get vaccinated as well. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently estimated that as many as 85% of Americans need to get the vaccine to bring the pandemic under control. Without that kind of vaccination rate, the virus can still spread rapidly, and even people who ve been vaccinated aren t fully guaranteed they re safe.
Gov. Murphy has continued to stress what appear to be dramatic increases in novel coronavirus infections and increases in hospitalizations over the last many weeks, while New Jersey s rate of transmission has now dropped to among the lowest in the nation.
Earlier this week, Murphy cited a 25% increase in hospitalizations and a 30% increase in the number of patients needing intensive care compared to Thanksgiving. He noted a 20% increase in the number of positive tests since the beginning of December. He used those numbers to implore New Jersey residents to keep Christmas gatherings small and to avoid New Year s Eve celebrations. He has cited those numbers as a need to maintain tight restrictions on the behaviors of residents and businesses.