Many Oregon people of color eager to get vaccinated against COVID-19 while others wait for answers
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Julia Mines didn’t want to get vaccinated against COVID-19, fully aware of the nation’s history of medical experimentation on African Americans. But she did it anyway.
“I needed to set an example,” said Mines, director of a drug and alcohol recovery center for Black Portlanders.
But, in the end, only two of her seven employees at The Miracles Club have gotten shots, she said, even though they had early access because they work face-to-face with people of color.
Oregon Cares Fund to release final round of COVID grants to Black community
Pending approval by the judge, the settlement agreement allows the remaining $8.8 million to be distributed to Black Oregonians, Black-owned businesses and Black-led nonprofits that have demonstrated financial harm due to COVID.
Posted: Mar 12, 2021 11:45 AM
Posted By: Alicia Rubin
PORTLAND, Ore. The Oregon Cares Fund is nearly ready to release its final round of COVID grants to the Black community, after a settlement agreement was reached with plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed against the fund. If approved by the judge, the agreement allows the remaining $8.8 million to be distributed to Black Oregonians, Black-owned businesses and Black-led nonprofits that have demonstrated financial harm due to COVID.
Coronavirus vaccine equity group in Oregon to meet in secret, again By Fedor Zarkhin, oregonlive.com
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Oregon’s coronavirus vaccine equity group is meeting in secret Thursday after holding a different closed-door session this week in which some members questioned how health officials will put the group’s recommendations into practice.
State health officials created the Vaccine Advisory Committee to help decide who should be inoculated against the coronavirus after health care workers, senior care residents and workers, teachers and seniors.
The group’s meetings had been public until this week. State officials say the committee finished its official work last Thursday, sending recommendations to the Oregon Health Authority, and the latest sessions are not subject to public meetings law.
Mark Shull apologizes during Muslim Educational Trust event January 18 2021
When asked to say Black lives matter, the Clackamas County Commissioner responded that all lives matter.
Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull has apologized for social media posts expressing Islamophobic and anti-immigrant views, but said that recent public conversation has taken them out of context. I certainly didn t imagine that some of (the posts) would be presented to countless people, causing fear and anxiety, Shull said during an event on Monday, Jan. 18, at the Muslim Educational Trust in Tigard, describing an email with screenshots of the postings as intended to cause a public media storm.