Author: KGW Staff SALEM, Ore. (KGW) — The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is lifting the requirement to wear face masks in health care facilities starting April 3. This will apply to workers, patients and visitors. Washington state also announced it ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued emergency use authorization for the first over-the-counter at-home test that detects both influenza and COVID-19 viruses. The Lucira COVID-19 and flu home test is a single-use test that ...
Author: Bryant Clerkley (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — It’s been almost three years since the first person was diagnosed with COVID-19 in Oregon. Dr. Katie Sharff with Kaiser Permanente diagnosed the man on February 28, 2020, and she said it ...
(KGW) Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have flattened out, according to the CDC, though case rates rise and fall. Now, nearly three years after the pandemic reached the U.S., Oregon is one of 14 states with some mask requirements in place for ...
SALEM, Ore. – Oregon health officials say they’re seeing a “significant decrease” in respiratory virus hospitalization. The decline in community spread of influenza and RSV viruses is expected to continue into spring, according to Dean Sidelinger, the health officer and ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN) – The U. S. will soon require negative COVID tests for individuals traveling from China to the U.S. as health officials are concerned about the rise in COVID-19 cases in China as well as the lack of ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Families across the country are facing a mounting problem as cases of COVID, flu, and RSV rise and there is not enough medicine to go around for both children and adults. Frustrations are high as pharmacy shelves, ...
Author: Jared Cowley (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. — The health officer for Multnomah County is asking everyone to start wearing face masks indoors when they’re around other people, at least through the end of the year, to help keep a rise ...
Author: Tim Gordon VANCOUVER, Wash. — Everyone is looking for a break after long years living with COVID-19, but the coronavirus is not done with us yet — and health officials warn that it’s accompanied by a strong onset of RSV, ...
BEIJING, China (NBC) – Police were out in force in major cities across China Tuesday to prevent more protests after unprecedented demonstrations against the country’s “zero-COVID” policy over the weekend that posed a rare direct challenge to the ruling communist ...