News & Stories for Oregonians
To read this story in Spanish, click here. (This story was updated at 9:09 p.m. on May 5, 2022, to include an accurate hyperlink to “vaccination and booster rates” on OHA’s website.) Now that Oregon’s mask mandate has ended for most indoor public spaces, people may feel uncertain or uneasy about venturing out without masks. […]
In December 2020, the phone lines at the Clatsop County Public Health Department were jammed. Hundreds of questions came in every day from worried callers wanting to know about COVID-19 symptoms, isolation and testing. Other callers wanted to report businesses ignoring COVID-19 state mandates. Jane Dunkin, Clatsop County human resources assistant and volunteer coordinator, […]
Actualizado 03/31/2023 Actualización, 03/31/2023 – El servicio de telesalud de Color Health para recibir medicamentos antivirales orales ahora está disponible para niños de 12 a 17 años, con el consentimiento de los padres o del tutor adulto legal. Actualización, 02/03/23: El 2 de febrero de 2023, la Administración de Alimentos y Meicamentos de los Estados […]
Si aún puede contraer COVID-19 después de la vacunación, ¿cuál es el punto de vacunarse? Esta es una pregunta común, y tiene una respuesta simple. Como la mayoría de las medidas preventivas, las vacunas contra el COVID-19 no pueden brindar una protección absoluta. Sin embargo, estas vacunas claramente reducen el riesgo de infectarse y, lo […]
Updated 03/27/2023 Update, 3/27/2023 – The Color Health telehealth service to receive oral antiviral medication is now available to children ages 12 – 17, with parental or adult caregiver consent. Update, 2/3/2023 – On Feb. 2, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued new guidelines stating that it is not necessary to test positive […]
The subvariant of Omicron called BA.2 is now the dominant strain of the COVID-19 virus in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). BA.2 is about 33% more contagious than BA.1 — the Omicron variant that caused the U.S.’s winter surge — and now represents more than 70% of […]
Ahora que la mayoría de los requisitos de cubrebocas para interiores y otros requisitos de salud pública se han levantado en Oregon, lidiar con el COVID-19 está cambiando la toma de decisiones a nivel personal y comunitario. Esta noticia ha sido un alivio para muchos, especialmente para aquellos que están vacunados y cuentan con sus […]
Now that most indoor mask and other public health requirements have lifted in Oregon, navigating COVID-19 is shifting to personal and community-level decision-making. This news has come as a relief to many, especially those who are vaccinated and boosted and wish to return to some level of pre-pandemic social interactions. For others, even with personal […]
As if pregnancy is not stressful enough, COVID-19 has added an extra dimension of uncertainty to the process. Dr. Barbra Fisher, MD, PhD, maternal-fetal medicine specialist at Northwest Perinatal Center in Portland, recently helped us understand how getting vaccinated during pregnancy benefits both pregnant patients and newborn children. Here, Dr. Fisher answers some of the […]
A partir del lunes 4 de abril, Oregon Health Authority (OHA, por sus siglas en inglés) cambiará la forma en que informa al público sobre el COVID-19. Estos serán los principales cambios: OHA ya no emitirá un comunicado de prensa diario sobre números de casos, hospitalizaciones o muertes. Esa información se actualizará todos los días […]
