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Jackson County Medical Director Dr. Leona O'Keefe, who joins us for a health-and-COVID Q&A. -
Recent testing and other numbers to indicate that students are recovering some of the learning they lost while school was out or online.
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Monkeypox or HMPXV is also on the medical concern radar, plus we had health-threatening hot weather of late. Through the other health challenges, COVID is still with us, and Jackson County Medical Director Dr. Leona O'Keefe -
The report explores why many jobless Oregonians waited weeks or months to receive unemployment benefits. Auditors recommend an ombuds office to help claimants navigate the system.
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The Biden administration may scrap plans to expand eligibility for second boosters to younger adults. Instead, it's trying to speed up the next generation of boosters targeting the omicron variant.
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COVID is still with us, and Jackson County Medical Director Dr. Leona O'Keefe continues to join us for regular COVID Q&A sessions.
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Several Oregon Shakespeare Festival shows have been canceled through Sunday because of a high number of COVID cases among the cast and crew.
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While COVID-19 hospitalizations in Oregon are less than half what they were at their peak last fall, hospitals in the state are struggling to operate normally.
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Oregonians may be "done with" COVID, but it's got plenty of life left.
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Jackson County Medical Director Dr. Leona O'Keefe for COVID Q&A sessions.
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Omicron's newest incarnation is more effective at re-infecting people and causing breakthrough infections in vaccinated people, but it's probably not more virulent than the strains that circulated this winter.
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BA.5 is now the dominant omicron strain in the U.S. It's good at evading the immune system, though doesn't appear to cause more serious illness.
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The majority of Oregon counties are in the "high" level of Covid that category as July started.
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Medical journal study says life expectancy for California’s Latinos fell six years, more than other populations during pandemic.
