Gov. Kate Brown’s decision to hand off COVID-19 safeguards to individual counties has led to widespread inaction by local leaders during a pivotal fifth wave, which is threatening to become Oregon’s worst of the pandemic. The delta variant is overtaking the country and Oregon, leading to huge spikes in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations and prompting the federal government last week to .
Updated 5:40 AM Hollywood tests actors three times a week for COVID-19. The NBA tests players daily. Congress required testing anyone attending President Joe Biden’s April 28 State of the Union address who had not been vaccinated. These are examples of what are called “screening tests” a way to ensure Biden, Tom Cruise and Damian Lillard can do their jobs through the pandemic without major outbreaks. Some Portland parents and teachers want to see a version of this regimen in Portland Public Schools. And they fault the Oregon Health Authority for choosing a smaller, slower testing system as students return to classrooms in neighborhoods overrun by the coronavirus, even as the federal government has provided funding for screening tests.
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Mack Follmer celebrating his 90th birthday with his grandson Matthew Holmes in May 2020. He died March 24, five weeks after testing positive for COVID-19 and six weeks after getting his first dose of vaccine.
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Mack Follmer, a 90-year-old living independently in Eugene, made it through more than a year of the coronavirus pandemic in good health – albeit very isolated beyond trips to the grocery store, the pharmacy and the occasional socially distanced coffee klatch with friends.
His own efforts to secure a COVID-19 vaccine through his doctor went nowhere.
COVID-19 sickens larger proportion of young people, Oregon and national data show
The Lund Report: Since January, the share of new cases in Oregonians aged 10 to 19 has grown by roughly 50% while the proportion of those aged 20 to 50 has shrunk. Author: Jacob Fenton (The Lund Report) Published: 10:39 AM PDT April 7, 2021 Updated: 10:39 AM PDT April 7, 2021
New COVID-19 case counts have plummeted in Oregon, but the state is experiencing a change in who is testing positive. Since January, the share of new cases in Oregonians aged 10 to 19 has grown by roughly 50% while the proportion of those aged 20 to 50 has shrunk, according to an analysis by The Lund Report.