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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As coronavirus cases continue to spike in Oregon, health...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As coronavirus cases continue to spike in Oregon, health officials describe the dire situation they are seeing play out in hospitals — especially among unvaccinated people.

We'll update this story with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Friday, August 6.

SamCare Express clinics in Albany and Corvallis will have limited availability for scheduled appointments over the next week so that health care workers can receive their first round of COVID-19

When will I be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccination? How will I be notified? But the answers may not satisfy anyone not associated with health care if they think they are next in what likely will be a long line. Oregon Health Authority officials Friday said it could be months — perhaps as late as fall — before members of the general public will receive vaccinations. State guidelines are shifting nearly daily as new information about the COVID-19 pandemic becomes known. And when ...

Pam Hayden said she didn’t have to think twice when she was offered the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine administered by Samaritan Health Services Friday afternoon. “I was excited when they asked me,” said Hayden, who has worked in Good Samaritan Regional Medical Centers housekeeping department for five years. “I am not the least bit afraid of the vaccine, but I am very concerned about possibly catching the virus without it.” She took the shot for �...