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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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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.