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
Oregon Department of Corrections prisoner deaths approaching annual record The Oregon Department of Corrections has recorded an average of nearly one prisoner death per week since mid-September. One person died just one month after being admitted into Ore ...
1 Dec 2021 - Latisha Jensen
Community leaders and health care experts bring vaccines directly to neighborhoods with vaccine rate disparities Facing the drastic rise in cases and state restrictions that don’t preclude large groups of people from congregating, Oregon’s public health e ...
22 Sep 2021 - Andrew Jankowski
Measure 109 supporters anticipate ‘a huge societal shift’ if magic mushrooms are legalized for medical use On the morning of July 19, a Sunday, Neal drove from his home in Portland to a cabin in a remote part of Oregon. The person he traveled to meet gree ...
30 Sep 2020 - Christen McCurdy
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
A $720,000 grant has allowed the county to build on its pilot project During the past year, about 1,600 people have been offered medications such as buprenorphine to assist with their opioid use disorder and withdrawal symptoms while they’ve been in the C ...
2 Jun 2020 - Christen McCurdy
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