March 06 2021
Kate Brown said she got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to quell rumors and misinformation about the drug.
Gov. Kate Brown got her COVID-19 vaccination Saturday, March 6, at the Oregon Health and Science University Primary Care Clinic in Scappoose.
Dr. Joe Skariah gave Brown the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which was recently cleared for emergency use by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration medical panel. Oregon expects to get dozes of that vaccine along with the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines.
Brown said the state had vaccinated more than 1 million people and 20,000 doses each day.
In a statement released by Brown s office, the governor said she got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to quell rumors and misinformation about the drug. It was important to me to demonstrate today that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is safe and effective, Brown said. Every week my office hears the question: If these vaccines are so safe, then why hasn t Kate Brown gotten one?
Life really does come full circle. Dr. Marcel Tam, a doctor at the Warm Springs Indian Health Center in Central Oregon, spends his work life caring for the tribal members in Warm Springs and Grand Ronde.
In these two places heâs found his place, caring for tribal members who would otherwise have to drive long distances to get health care. Tam is among those doctors who studied in rural communities and found that he was suited for it. He embraces the variety of health issues and relationship-building needed to earn trust and respect.
âContext is really important and trust is something you have to work on,â said Tam, 39. âI see my patients for who they really are. I look at the whole person.
Life really does come full circle. Dr. Marcel Tam, a doctor at the Indian Health Center a rural community in Central Oregon, spends his work life caring for the tribal members in Warm Springs and Grand Ronde.
In these two places heâs found his place, caring for tribal members who would otherwise have to drive long distances to access health care. Tam is among those doctors who studied in rural communities and found that he was suited for it. He embraces the variety of health issues and relationship-building needed to earn trust and respect.
âContext is really important and trust is something you have to work on,â said Tam, 39. âI see my patients for who they really are. I look at the whole person.