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Vaccination is critical ahead of unpredictable respiratory virus season, Oregon health officials warn
Health
Portland-area doctors urge families to vaccinate children as school year gets underway
Kaiser Permanente pediatricians are urging families to ensure students are vaccinated against the flu and COVID-19.
Health
Portland-area pediatricians urging vaccinations as school year starts
With the school year underway for many, Portland-area pediatricians are urging families to make sure their kids have the proper vaccines.
Vaccine
Health leaders expect new COVID-19 vaccines to be available in Oregon in coming weeks
The updated mRNA vaccines target a strain called KP.2, which is circulating now and is expected to ramp up in the fall and winter months.
Nation World
RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns
The recommendation comes a month after the CDC recommended another option: lab-made antibodies given to infants younger than 8 months as way to prevent severe RSV.
Nation World
Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine
CDC advisers endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months and older and the agency's director quickly signed off Tuesday on the panel's recommendation.
Vaccine
The CDC did not say a new COVID strain is not more contagious among vaccinated than unvaccinated people
Social media posts claim that the CDC said a new COVID subvariant is more contagious in vaccinated people than in unvaccinated people. That’s false.
Vaccine
WA Gov. Inslee repeals vaccine mandate for state employees
Wednesday's announcement aligns with the end of the federal public health emergency.
Nation World
US to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week
The move marks the latest display of how President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to treat COVID-19 as a routine, endemic illness.
Nation World
Appeals court blocks vaccine mandate for US government workers
The ruling from the full appeals court reverses an earlier ruling from a smaller three-judge panel that upheld the vaccine requirement.
Healthier Together
Looking back at three years of COVID-19
It’s been three years since the pandemic began, and moving forward will require learning some important lessons – including recognizing the virus is still with us.
Coronavirus
3 years later, doctor looks back on diagnosing Oregon's first COVID-19 patient
Dr. Katie Sharff says the health care system has come a long way when it comes to treating COVID-19 in the years since she diagnosed Oregon's first case.
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