Oregon won’t fight ruling, will start vaccinating 11,000 prisoners against COVID-19 Updated Feb 03, 2021; Posted Feb 03, 2021 Facebook Share Gov. Kate Brown’s office said Wednesday Oregon will soon begin offering COVID-19 vaccinations to as many as 11,000 inmates in the state’s prisons and that could delay health care workers and others in phase 1a from getting the vaccines. A governor’s spokesman, however, said vaccinations of inmates won’t slow shots in the arms to teachers, who became eligible last week, or seniors, the oldest who have been promised access starting Monday. The change in course came one day after U.S. Magistrate Stacie Beckerman ordered inoculations to immediately commence in response to disproportionately high rates of coronavirus spread and death in the state’s 14 prisons.