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VA Portland Health Care System will begin COVID-19 vaccinations with the Janssen vaccine next week. This follows the recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Emergency Use Authorization for this vaccine. In clinical trials, the Janssen vaccine showed an efficacy of 66% against moderate to severe/critical COVID-19 disease occurring at least 28 days after vaccination — and demonstrated greater than 85% efficacy in preventing severe/critical COVID-19 disease occurring at least 28 days after vaccination. "VA Portland is eager to be able to offer a third highly effective vaccine to ...

VA Portland Health Care System today flew 144 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to Redmond from Portland to get Veterans vaccinated at the Bend / Robert D. Maxwell VA Clinic. This was the first such authorization in the entire VA to avoid weather-related travel issues and get the vaccine to remote VA clinics. VA Portland has administered more than 400 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine to Bend VA Clinic Veterans since January 19. The health care system has delivered more than 27,500 doses across its entire 26-county area of responsibility in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The majority ...

COVID-19 vaccines go to Oregon hospital employees who don't have contact with patients Some have questioned why hospital marketing employees and administrators have been vaccinated despite guidelines that put patient-facing employees first. Author: Cristin Severance (KGW) Updated: 8:00 AM PST January 8, 2021 The state of Oregon’s plan all along was to vaccinate health care workers first, the people who come in contact with patients and are most at-risk of getting COVID-19.  Some KGW viewers sent emails asking why hospital marketing employees and administrato...