Oregon hits 5 years since state's first reported COVID-19 case
The emergency is over, but the long-term effects of the pandemic are still highly visible across multiple sectors including education, business and real estate.
Wastewater testing helped track COVID-19’s spread. Bird flu might prove harder to monitor
Enter wastewater surveillance — a tool public health officials used during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to monitor the ...
Incomes are rising across the Portland area, but much more slowly in one county
Annual median household income topped $100,000 in 2023 for the first time in Clackamas and Washington counties, according to ...
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The COVID pandemic’s lingering physical and mental toll, five years later
Five years ago this week, the World Health Organization called the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In the United States, ...
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COVID-19 Updates & Health Guidance
Questions about the medication – Montelukast (aka Singulair) – first arose four years agp during the COVID-19 pandemic but didn ... of Deschutes County, Oregon – the first such case ...
Where Oregon women stand in updated March Madness bracket predictions after Indiana loss
The Oregon women's basketball team will likely have to sweat out Selection Sunday March 16 after a loss to Indiana in the Big ...
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Idaho governments can’t require masks for infectious diseases, after governor signs bill
Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed into law a bill that bans government and school mask mandates to combat infectious diseases.
Majorities say pandemic is over, fear future health crisis: Gallup
Most Americans believe the pandemic is over, but most also worry about another deadly health crisis, according to a new ...
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Long COVID: More students falling behind in reading, math since pandemic
The recently released ‘National Report Card’ test scores show 40% of fourth graders don’t have basic reading skills, and 39% ...
Flu deaths may have surpassed COVID deaths nationwide for first time since start of pandemic, early CDC data suggests
Partial CDC data suggest that influenza deaths may have already reached as high as 2% of deaths for the week ending on Feb. 1, also surpassing COVID-19 mortality nationwide which was holding at around ...