News & Stories for Oregonians
La temporada de fantasmas, duendes y dulces está llegando más rápido de lo que esperábamos y antes de buscar el disfraz perfecto, debemos estar preparados para tener un Halloween seguro.
Because you can still get COVID-19 if you’re vaccinated, some people believe the vaccines don’t work. But COVID-19 vaccines are, and have always been, highly effective at reducing hospitalizations and deaths. In the first year vaccines were available (Dec. 8, 2020 through Dec. 8, 2021), the vaccines prevented an estimated 15-20 million deaths globally. In […]
Desde el comienzo de la pandemia por COVID-19, millones de personas en los Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo han experimentado síntomas continuos o nuevos después de semanas o meses de haber tenido una infección por COVID-19. Aunque aún no se comprende completamente, esta condición se conoce como COVID-19 prolongado. Ahora, tres años después, […]
Available in Spanish On Oct. 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization for the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine to be administered as a single booster dose in some situations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention followed by recommending the Novavax monovalent COVID-19 booster be made available to people age 18 and older who […]
Available in Spanish Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of people across the United States and the world have experienced lingering or new symptoms in the weeks and months after recovering from a COVID-19 infection. Although not fully understood yet, this condition is known as long COVID-19. Now three years in, researchers are […]
Pláticas de Salud con OHA es un esfuerzo del estado de Oregon para brindarle información de salud relevante sobre la pandemia de COVID-19. En este segmento nos acompaña Nikol Ramírez del Centro Familiar Mano a Mano y Denise Piza, Coordinadora de alcance regional con OHA. Nikol y Denise nos comparten sobre los nuevos refuerzos actualizados […]
A group of eager apple-pickers recently made a trip to Oregon State Hospital’s (OSH) Junction City campus. Why? To pick apples, of course. They were volunteers with the Eugene Area Gleaners. On this autumn day, they came to harvest apples from the nearly 300 apple trees that line the hospital’s main entrance known as Recovery […]
La respuesta rápida es sí, todavía estamos en una pandemia. Una pandemia se refiere a una enfermedad que se ha propagado a varias regiones del mundo, y el COVID-19 continúa teniendo una transmisión sostenida en todo el mundo. En los últimos meses, varios cientos de personas han muerto cada día en los Estados Unidos por […]
Los niños de hasta 5 años ahora son elegibles para recibir un refuerzo COVID-19 actualizado. Los refuerzos bivalentes, desarrollados por Pfizer y Moderna, están diseñados para proteger a las personas de las subvariantes BA.4 y BA.5 de Ómicron actualmente predominantes, así como de la cepa original de COVID-19. Es una dosis única que se puede […]
Available in Spanish The quick answer is yes, we are still living in a pandemic. A pandemic refers to a disease that has spread to several regions around the world, and COVID-19 continues to have sustained transmission around the world. Over the past few months several hundred people have died each day in the United […]
