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What you need to know about new COVID-19 'omicron booster'

Will omicron-specific booster shots be more effective at combating COVID-19? 5 questions answered, and where to get the shot near Portland. On Sept. 1, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed the use of updated COVID-19 booster shots that ...

14 Sep 2022 - Prakash Nagarkatti and Mitzi Nagarkatti
Long-term effects of Oregon’s early COVID-19 response

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
Why are COVID tests and vaccines still so hard to find?

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
Employment department settles lawsuit after ending PUA for thousands of people

The legal action resulted in a settlement reached with the Employment Department in June giving people more time and clarity on how they can keep their benefits Matt Belanger recalled laughing with his wife in May while bringing in the mail at their St. H ...

21 Jul 2021 - Jake Thomas
COVID-19’s toll on Oregon’s tribal elders imperils preservation of Native languages

They taught more than grammar and vocabulary; they taught the cultural meaning behind the words. And now, they’re gone. “ We don’t say they died. We say that they returned home,” said Jermayne Tuckta of his tribe’s elders lost to COVID-19. “And now that t ...

7 Jul 2021 - B. Toastie
These Portland indie bookstores survived COVID-19, thanks to ingenuity and community support

How three booksellers thrived during one of the toughest years for small businesses in recent history SUMMER READS: Book recommendations from Street Roots' staff, vendors, volunteers, kids and friends. On June 20, Michelle Lewis and Charles Hannah c ...

23 Jun 2021 - Sarah Hansell
Oregon Food Bank CEO: ‘We can’t solve hunger with simply more food’

Faced with a surge in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic, the food bank has shifted its focus to systemic issues at the root of the hunger crisis A s Oregon emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing remains a constant since long before it be ...

16 Jun 2021 - Karina Dwijayanti
Street Roots Podcast | Kim McCarty: Government needs to step up to protect renters

Episode 19: Oregon must extend the eviction moratorium, the Community Alliance Tenants director says On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, Kim McCarty, the e xecutive director of the Community Alliance of Tenants, joins host DeVon Pouncey to discus ...

25 May 2021 - DeVon Pouncey
Opinion | The American Rescue Plan Act: A promise of what could be

The federal relief package recognizes that our nation’s crisis began long before COVID-19 Out of the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal legislation full of promise has arisen. The American Rescue Plan Act, enacted by Congress in March, could have ...

5 May 2021 - Janet Bauer
Opinion | Even before COVID-19, nursing homes were filling empty beds with psychiatric patients

Staffers aren’t trained to care for this kind of patient — but they have no choice as the pandemic creates more vacancies that must be filled One year ago, a nursing home in Kirkland, Washington, became an early battleground for the U.S. coronavirus out ...

24 Mar 2021 - Don Martin