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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.