Health and Medicine

It would take roughly double the current supply to fully vaccinate every adult Oregonian by the end of fall. Then there's the need for trained staff and the volunteers to support them, a plan for essential workers, getting the vaccine to pharmacies, and a campaign to tell the public about all of the above.

Paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman says the concept of "getting exercise" is relatively new. His new book, Exercised, examines why we run, lift and walk for a workout when our ancestors didn't.

“My personal feeling is that seniors and frontline workers who are being exposed should get those vaccines,” said Portland teacher Beyoung Yu, “By doing this right now, we are doing it at a risk to the populations we serve.”

President Biden laid out his approach to the pandemic before he took office. On Thursday, he began implementing it, calling the effort a "wartime undertaking."

Vaccination clinics for the coronavirus are beginning to open in communities around Southern Oregon and Northern California. However, the criteria vary for who can get vaccinated now.

Daily numbers of new cases are finally starting to wane, and hospitalizations are down slightly. But health care systems are still overburdened and another resurgence remains a threat.

Oregon is expecting to receive a large chunk of federal stimulus money this week to help pay for its COVID-19 vaccination program.

Although vaccination has begun, this winter has been the deadliest season of the pandemic. The U.S. death toll jumped from 300,000 to 400,000 in just five weeks.

The new guidance includes mostly small changes, with one big one.

First, can someone who has been vaccinated still spread the disease? Second, will the vaccine remain effective as the virus itself evolves? And third, how long will the vaccine's protection last?