Vaccines

As public health funding winds down, gaps in vaccination rates are increasing. Particularly for booster doses, the gap among racial and ethnic groups is widening significantly.

Oregon’s overall school-age vaccination rate lags the national average. Pop-up clinics help kids to catch up with required shots before the Feb. 15 deadline.

Community health groups in California and across the country are training teens, many of them Hispanic or Latino, and deputizing them to serve as health educators at school, on social media, and in communities where covid vaccine fears persist.

At an event hosted by the non-profit think tank Public Policy Institute of California, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and California’s HHS Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly provided their perspectives on where the nation and state stand with COVID-19 and what comes next for pandemic response.

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, peaked in the summer. But cases have risen again this month, prompting the Oregon Health Authority to increase outreach.

More boosters are available in pharmacies than at pediatricians' offices, but the public health priority is to get kids their first series of shots

Tweaked boosters rolled out for Americans 12 and older last month, modified to target today's most common and contagious variant. The latest move may expand protection before an expected winter wave.

Here we go again. The virus is starting to surge in many European countries and there are early signs a wave may be starting in the U.S. too.

Early problems getting vaccinations to the state’s Latino population were largely overcome when the Oregon Health Authority began working with community organizations to improve access

Newly reformulated COVID-19 booster shots have arrived in Oregon this week. The bivalent vaccines target new strains of omicron along with the parent strain of the virus. Here's what to know and where to find them.

Starting this month, the Oregon Health Authority will stop publishing a daily online update on COVID-19 case numbers and deaths. It signals a shift in focus to other priorities, including monkeypox, prepping for flu season and addressing racial inequities in health.

Falling childhood vaccination rates during the pandemic meant that thousands of students were unable to start the school year on a campus because they did not have the immunizations required by the state.