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Oregon urges families to submit students’ vaccination records by Feb. 21
Children without up-to-date vaccination records will be sent home.
Many at Oregon’s nursing homes haven’t gotten the new COVID booster
The most current state data from October shows that at long-term care facilities, only 6% of staff and 11% of residents have gotten this year's COVID-19 booster.
More newborn shots for RSV come to Oregon, but won’t meet demand, officials say
So far, more than 4,000 infants in Oregon have received Nirsevimab and will have some protection against severe RSV this winter, but many more are eligible and demand has outstripped supply.
Oregon lags behind goal of high flu vaccination rate for health care workers
A lower percentage of health care workers are vaccinated against the flu than during the 2019-20 flu season, according to the Oregon Health Authority.
A new RSV shot could help protect babies this winter — if they can get it in time
Hospitals were overwhelmed last winter by a surge in pediatric cases of RSV. Now a new monoclonal antibody shot could help, but price and supply issues are causing delays in getting it to infants in the Northwest and across the country.
Oregon doctor sees rising exemption requests for childhood vaccines, says more education needed
Ryan Hassan, a pediatrician in Happy Valley, Oregon, and medical director for Boost Oregon, a parent-led nonprofit working to increase vaccinations for youth and adults through education, says he’s seen an increase in the number of parents questioning long established vaccines, in addition to the skepticism around COVID-19 vaccines.
Oregon kids return to school — and the festival of viruses begins
Health care providers say Oregonians will soon have more options than ever to minimize the consequences of an infection with one of the now-familiar big three: COVID-19, RSV and influenza.
Oregon faces ‘another public health emergency’ as monkeypox begins to spread
‘Monkeypox,’ which does not come from monkeys and is usually an uncomfortable though fairly mild disease, is beginning to spread in Oregon.
COVID vaccine for infants, toddlers gets federal approval. Here’s why it took this long
Some parents are wondering why, nearly a year since the first COVID-19 vaccines for adults got federal approval, it took this long to get them for children younger than 5.
Oregon pediatricians ready for COVID vaccine for babies, toddlers, preschoolers
Health clinics in Oregon anticipate receiving their first vaccine shipments for the youngest children in the next couple of weeks, according to health officials.