SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Oregon appears to be an outlier as coronavirus cases start to peak in other states. Of all the states in America, Oregon is one of five states expected to have the fewest COVID-19 deaths per capita. That's according to researchers at the University of Washington who developed a closely watched model.…
confounded scores of workers on Easter Sunday has returned this Sunday morning, despite the state’s insistence that the problem has been fixed.The Oregon Employment Department’s website again is telling many workers this Sunday morning that they must restart their claims when they make their weekly filing for benefits. That’s a mistake – most workers do…
The Oregon Health Authority on Friday reported six new deaths from the novel coronavirus as confirmed cases climbed to 1,785.The agency said an 88-year-old Clackamas County woman, two Linn County men ages 86 and 95, two Marion County women ages 65 and 91, and a 76-year-old Multnomah County woman were the latest known patients to…
told KOIN (6) her husband’s doctors had been looking at such a treatment, but Jimenez’s blood type posed a challenge."There is research supporting that the convalescent plasma can be helpful for these patients,” his wife told the station. “He has a rare blood type which is AB-positive. We are also looking for people who have…
LOCAL Oregon’s statewide total is now 1,663 cases. PORTLAND, Ore. — Three more Oregonians have died from COVID-19, bringing the state’s death toll to 58 people, state health officials said Wednesday.The Oregon Health Authority reported the following details about the people who died:Oregon’s 56th COVID-19 death is an 82-year-old man in Marion County, who tested…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…