Update 2:00 pm: Following the press conference, Governor Kate Brown announced on Twitter that the $100 gift cards will be available today at the Hillsboro Stadium vaccination site. The Portland International Airport and Oregon Convention Center vaccination sites will distribute $100 gift cards to people receiving their first dose of the vaccine tomorrow, June 12, while supplies last. Update: $100 gift cards are available to Oregonians receiving their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine today.
Update 12:15 pm: During a press conference Friday, OHA director Patrick Allen said Oregon is expected to reach the 70 percent vaccination benchmark by June 21. Vaccination rates dipped over Memorial Day weekend and OHA is waiting to collect more data before determining if the decrease was strictly due to the holiday, or if it is indicative of another decline in demand for the vaccine. The racial and ethnic vaccine equity gap is slowly closing,.
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In a press conference about the Take Your Shot Oregon Campaign, Stanford Global Projects Center Executive Director Ashby Monk who collaborated with the state on developing the campaign said he hopes the campaign will increase vaccination rates by at least 20 percent and possibly up to 40 percent. That number is based on results from similar campaigns that have been conducted in the private sector.
“This is an experiment, so we’re going to hope for the best and use all the science we have to influence the design,” Monk said.
Governor Brown also acknowledged that the recent lifting of mask requirements for fully vaccinated people has been difficult for businesses who now have to verify proof of vaccination for people who want to forgo wearing a mask. Brown announced that when 70 percent of Oregonian adults have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, she may lift the vaccine verification requirement and allow people to go maskless in businesses with
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Carlene Knight, 54, is one of the first patients in a landmark study designed to try to restore vision in those who have a rare genetic disease that causes blindness. Josh Andersen/Oregon Health & Science University
Carlene Knight would love to do things that most people take for granted, such as read books, drive a car, ride a bike, gaze at animals in a zoo and watch movies. She also longs to see expressions on people s faces. To be able to see my granddaughter especially my granddaughter s face, said Knight, 54, who lives outside Portland, Ore. It would be huge.
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