News & Stories for Oregonians
Available in Spanish Here is the truth: COVID-19 vaccines and boosters are safe, and they work. They are highly effective at helping prevent hospitalizations and severe COVID-19 illness. Being vaccinated and boosted allows people to move through life with a semblance of normalcy. Unfortunately, there is a lot of false information out there about COVID-19 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Available in Spanish Autumn has arrived in Oregon, with leaves beginning to change color to reds, oranges and yellows. This signals the coming of our third winter living with COVID-19. We are optimistic that this winter will not be like the last, when Omicron rapidly spread around the world, or the first COVID-19 winter, before […]
Available in Spanish Oregon Health Authority (OHA) announced last week that some data about COVID-19 will now be updated weekly rather than daily. Starting Sept. 14, weekly updates will include: Although many people relied on daily updates to assess their personal risk, weekly data still shows accurate and useful trends in how COVID-19 is spreading […]
Available in Spanish The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many of us to be less physically active over the past two years, and that can affect our mental health. When we exercise, dance, play with our kids, ride a bike, shoot hoops, walk to work or any other activity that makes our hearts beat faster, our […]
Available in Spanish Over the last two and a half years of the COVID-19 pandemic, medical experts have found that the virus can cause damage to many parts of the body. Although most people experience symptoms in their nose, throat and lungs, the virus also can damage other organs, such as the heart. “COVID-19 can […]
Available in Spanish Summer is here, which means it’s travel season! You may be heading on a family road trip, or boarding a plane for sunny beaches or a ship for a relaxing cruise. Whatever your travel plans are, there are ways to stay safe from COVID-19. Most importantly, make sure you’re up to date […]
This story was updated 7/11/2022, correcting the location of the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation.
