PORTLAND When 8,000 Trail Blazers fans flocked to Portland’s Moda Center for the first home game of the playoff series Thursday evening, it marked the largest indoor crowd anywhere in Oregon in the more than 14 months since the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
As vaccines spread across the globe, and cities around the country thaw from under virus restrictions, one topic has been top of mind: What does a post-pandemic future look like?
A panel of experts from Oregon State University took up pieces of that question Tuesday in a forum addressing questions about the next steps for getting the population vaccinated, what it might take to travel internationally this summer and what lessons we can all take away from the COVID-19 crisis.
Summer fun?
International travel might be a possibility this summer â but itâll be important for travelers to be vaccinated and aware of their surroundings, according to Chunhuei Chi, the director of OSUâs Center for Global Health.
Bill Oxford / iStock / Getty Images Plus The Oregon State University webinar will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17.
Molly Rosbach | Mar 16, 2021
As COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available, Oregon State University experts will hold a panel discussion about the cultural, philosophical, community, policy and strategic aspects of vaccine dissemination.
The Under the Orange Light series webinar, titled “We Have Three Effective COVID-19 Vaccines: What are the Strategies for Dissemination and What are the Hold Ups?” will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17. The Zoom event is free and open to the public at this link. There will also be time for audience members to ask questions.
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Support for policies prohibiting smoking and the use of tobacco products on Oregon State University s Corvallis campus grew substantially over a five-year span, especially among tobacco users, a recent OSU study found.
The study, published earlier this month in the journal
Preventive Medicine, is unique in its analysis of support for smoke- and tobacco-free campus policies over a long period of time. Most other studies of attitudes toward smoking policies only assess a single point in time. Tobacco-free policies are one of the most effective things we can do to reduce the burden of tobacco use, and they are highly supported and growing in popularity, said Marion Ceraso, co-author on the study and an associate professor of practice and Extension Specialist in OSU s College of Public Health and Human Sciences.