MALHEUR COUNTY
As health authorities around the country fall in line with federal guidance to push the pause on distributing anymore of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine until further review, officials with the Malheur County Health Department say the reason is for an âextremely rare potential side effect.â Additionally, they state that if it is related, looking at the overall data matters.
âIf it is related, itâs important to keep in perspective that itâs six out of 6.8 million, and that the risk of potentially damaging health effects and risk of death from COVID-19 are far greater,â reads an emailed reply from Erika Harmon, public information officer at Malheur County Health Department on Tuesday morning. âVaccines are safe and effective, and they are necessary to save lives.â
ONTARIO
Weâve reached the year mark in the COVID-19 pandemic. It was March 13, 2020 that Oregon Gov. Kate Brown announced she was going to be closing down schools in an effort to minimize the spread of the virus. Within days, doors were slamming shut on all the usual activities around the Western Treasure Valley. Local places impacted were numerous and included churches, movie theaters the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Western Treasure Valley, sports seasons for colleges, universities and high schools, Friday night gatherings at a fish fry, visitors in hospitals, municipalities, including city halls and county courts, event centers and the list goes on. And by early April, the first local life was claimed to COVID-19.
MALHEUR COUNTY
After less than a week of being put into a âmoderate riskâ level related to the spread of COVID-19, Malheur County is in danger of sliding backwards due to case rates. The risk levels are reestablished every two weeks with a built-in warning week that change could be on the way.
Such a change would mean no limited fans at home games for some schools, including Vale and Nyssa, which have allowed it, and if the county slides back into the former âextreme riskâ category, it will be a season-ender for volleyball, which just barely got the green light for a season last week.
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