Community leaders and health officials point to distrust, an incompetent early pandemic response and the predictable results of longstanding systemic inequities Black and Indigenous Oregonians have been infected, hospitalized and killed by COVID-19 at rat ...
26 Jan 2022 - Henry Brannan
Nearly two years into the pandemic, county and state officials are still scrambling to keep up Appointments for COVID-19 tests and vaccines are increasingly difficult to find in Portland amid the omicron variant’s arrival in Oregon and a long-anticipated ...
12 Jan 2022 - Henry Brannan
The impacts on overall health outcomes should be monitored Stress during a pandemic can elicit fear and worry about health, it can disrupt sleep patterns, make concentration difficult, worsen chronic health conditions and mental health conditions, and lea ...
6 Jan 2021 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
The failure to provide adequate care in correctional facilities is a symptom of an overburdened system “ I ncarceration affects health. In fact, more than half of the population in prisons and jails are at high risk for COVID-19 because many have chronic ...
11 Nov 2020 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
The pandemic has illuminated long-standing inequities in the American health care system, and it will take a nation to fix them Structural racism in the U.S. seeps into many aspects of Black Americans’ lives. As we’re witnessing with the coronavirus pande ...
7 Jul 2020 - Rupal Ramesh Shah
Some commit to staying inside until there’s a coronavirus vaccine, and some look to help In 1996, Portlander James Cox was teetering on the edge of death with his second terminal AIDS diagnosis. Healthy individuals usually have a T cell count of 500 to 1, ...
24 Jun 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Long-standing problems with the interpreter industry put vulnerable populations at risk in medical settings Communication Breakdown In this two-part series, we examine how the pandemic has exacerbated problems facing Oregon's interpreters. Long-stand ...
18 Jun 2020 - Chris May
Those working in health care settings in Oregon have limited legal protections and unreliable access to PPE Communication Breakdown In this two-part series, we examine how the pandemic has exacerbated problems facing Oregon's interpreters. Long-stand ...
11 Jun 2020 - Chris May
The regional arm of Planned Parenthood and its advocacy partner are adapting, and the women who head these organizations discuss how As jobless claims in Oregon climbed, newly unemployed individuals across the state sought out health care providers that s ...
28 May 2020 - Anna Pedersen
The state’s guidelines for a crisis such as COVID-19 lack a commitment not to withhold care from people with disabilities, according to a federal complaint Oregon’s crisis health care guidelines leave room for discrimination against people with disabiliti ...
14 May 2020 - Joanne Zuhl