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Pamplin Media Group April 21 2021 After a bumpy start, multiple public agencies, private health care organizations and non-profits are now working very well together The sad fact is that the 1918-19 pandemic came and went with little learning curve for governments and the community. That disaster wrought an estimated 50 million deaths worldwide and 675,000 in the United States, leaving us with no road map for how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. While a lot of things have been bleak for this past one-year-plus, creativity, teamwork and ingenuity have resulted in a lot of Oregonians getting vaccinated. According to the Washington Post s daily tracker, 26% of Oregonians have received at least one dose, as of Wednesday, April 21, and about 40% have been fully vaccinated. That mirrors, fairly closely, the national vaccination rates. ....
April 03 2021 More than 5,000 cars per day, served by an army of volunteers, has led to more than 85,000 shots. It s as if the people who built Disneyland reimagined a M A S H unit. The choreographed craziness of an average day at the mass vaccination site at Portland International Airport is a staggering amalgam of nearly 500 volunteers per day on 22 square acres of the airport s Red Lot, taking in around 5,200 cars filled with people wanting to receive their first or second shot of the anti-coronavirus vaccine. It s 400 orange traffic cones and massive circus tents and the constant roar of incoming aircraft, not that far overhead. It s the military precision of professionals and volunteers many of whom wear goofy hats or wave pompoms and, as of last Friday, the Herculean effort has put more than 85,000 doses of vaccine into the arms of Oregonians anxious for a glimpse of the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. ....
April 03 2021 More than 5,000 cars per day, served by an army of volunteers, has led to more than 85,000 shots. It s as if the people who built Disneyland reimagined a M A S H unit. The choreographed craziness of an average day at the mass vaccination site at Portland International Airport is a staggering amalgam of nearly 500 volunteers per day on 22 square acres of the airport s Red Lot, taking in around 5,200 cars filled with people wanting to receive their first or second shot of the anti-coronavirus vaccine. It s 400 orange traffic cones and massive circus tents and the constant roar of incoming aircraft, not that far overhead. It s the military precision of professionals and volunteers many of whom wear goofy hats or wave pompoms and, as of last Friday, the Herculean effort has put more than 85,000 doses of vaccine into the arms of Oregonians anxious for a glimpse of the light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel. ....