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The Oregon Health Authority is now recommending everyone including people who have been vaccinated for COVID-19 wear masks when in public, indoor spaces. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made similar recommendations earlier this week.
But when it comes to students and educators, Gov. Kate Brown is so far leaving the power in the hands of individual schools and districts.
This provides schools with more flexibility and responsibility to address the needs as they see fit, based on more area-specific information. Vaccination rates and COVID-19 case counts vary widely among Oregon counties.
Neighboring states are taking a different approach. Washington and California are continuing to require all K-12 students and employees to wear masks indoors at school.
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Everyone is anxious to get back to pre-COVID programming, especially high school seniors who won t have another opportunity for some traditions such as prom.
Some students and families in different local districts say that s why they are organizing their own proms, without the support of schools.
As of Friday, a GoFundMe account run by a West Salem High School student to raise money for a student-organized prom scheduled for June 4 had raised $2,781 out of their $3,500 goal.
Dutch Bros Coffee contributed $1,000 but did not respond in time for publication as to why they donated. Officials with the parent company confirmed the donation was not made from headquarters.
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The University of Oregon will require students and faculty to have the COVID-19 vaccine to attend fall in-person classes.
UO President Michael Schill made the announcement Monday afternoon, making UO the fourth public university in Oregon to create the new requirement. Over the past couple of weeks, university leadership engaged in broad discussions with a wide variety of experts and stakeholders, including students, faculty, and staff, to develop our policy on COVID-19 vaccinations, Schill stated in the announcement. We have concluded that to protect the health and safety of our university community and the communities we serve, the University of Oregon will require students, faculty and staff who will be on campus to be vaccinated prior to the start of the fall 2021 academic term.
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We ll update this story throughout the day with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Sunday, May 9.
Oregon: 610 new cases, two deaths
Oregon reported 610 new cases of COVID-19 Sunday, bringing the state total to 191,405.
The new cases include 76 in Marion County and 10 more in Polk County, according to officials from the Oregon Health Authority.
The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported Sunday are in the following counties: Benton (13), Clackamas (78), Columbia (10), Coos (3), Crook (8), Curry (1), Deschutes (35), Douglas (5), Harney (1), Hood River (2), Jackson (16), Jefferson (3), Josephine (6), KIamath (22), Lane (40), Lincoln (1), Linn (31), Malheur (6), Morrow (