Author: Blair Best (KGW) OREGON, USA (KGW) — Last month, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated rules to no longer require masks at health care facilities if COVID-19 transmission rate is not high, with some exceptions for ...
Author: Tim Gordon (KGW) PULLMAN, Wash. (KGW) — Researchers at Washington State University are raising concerns over the discovery of a virus with some of the same characteristics as COVID-19. At the same time, they hope that the discovery will ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJLA/CNN) – It is being called the largest COVID-19-related fraud scheme uncovered to date. Tuesday, the Justice Department announced charges against 47 people who they say stole from a pandemic program meant to provide meals to needy children. ...
Author: Brittany Falkers (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Revamped COVID boosters have arrived in Oregon and southwest Washington. The new recipe targets both the original strain of the virus and the two omicron subvariants causing the most infections right now. ...
Author: Mike Benner, KGW Staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Booster shots that protect against the newest omicron strain of COVID-19 are arriving in Oregon. The state is expecting upwards of 150,000 boosters initially, and leaders believe the supply will be ...
Author: KGW Staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon’s COVID infection and hospitalizations have both been trending steadily downward for weeks, and the latest forecast from Oregon Health and Science University predicts that trajectory will continue for at least another month ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NBC) – President Biden is spending Friday morning isolated inside the White House. The president, who is fully vaccinated and doubled boosted, earlier shared a video just hours after the White House revealed his diagnosis, saying his symptoms ...
Author: Anthony Macuk (KGW) PORTLAND, Ore. (KGW) — Oregon’s daily COVID case counts have begun to level off, but they’re not decreasing very quickly, and the current level of hospitalization is still high enough to strain the state’s hospital system. ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNN) – The vaccine advisory committee for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend emergency use of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for adults. The US Food and Drug Administration had already granted emergency ...
JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. – Jackson County Library Services is hosting free COVID-19 vaccine clinics this month. They’re available for anyone ages six months and up. Medford’s library hosted one earlier this week. Jacksonville and Shady Cove’s libraries will each host ...