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Lane County Public Health is allotted only 100 doses from the state Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick, Register-Guard Replay Video Lane County Public Health was allotted 100 doses by Oregon Health Authority Monday morning.   "We have all of our mechanisms in place, we have record keeping in place, we are ready to go, and they only gave us 100 doses," Lane County Public Health spokesperson Jason Davis said Monday morning. "It's just putting us in a tough spot, and we're hoping that it's some sort of error." Curry County has a population of about 23,000, and their public health d...

According to federal and state data, Oregon is still one of the slowest states when it comes to the percentage of vaccines used.

Oregon officials didn’t know 42 coronavirus vaccine doses wasted Updated Jan 06, 2021; Facebook Share Two Portland hospital systems threw out more than three dozen coronavirus vaccine doses even as Oregon’s top health official said his agency knew of no wasted vaccines. Oregon Health & Science University lost 15 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses after one vial broke and two were mixed improperly, a hospital spokeswoman said. Legacy Health lost 27 doses when it couldn’t find health care workers to take surplus vaccine in the short time before it expires, a Legacy spokesman said. And yet, th...

Our KGW VERIFY team set out to answer some frequently asked questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. Author: Rebecca Coster, Hanna Merzbach Published: 6:01 PM CST December 3, 2020 Updated: 3:12 PM CST December 31, 2020 PORTLAND, Oregon — Ready and available vaccines for COVID-19 are here and have been administered to healthcare workers in Oregon and Washington. The biopharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna both recently announced that their coronavirus vaccines have around 95% efficacy. The Pfizer vaccine is being distributed nationwide aft...

Oregon slow to vaccinate health care workers Cristin Severance Replay Video UP NEXT The federal plan to administer the COVID-19 vaccine may be called Operation Warp Speed, but it seems like Operation Barely Moving in states like Oregon. Numbers from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) show while the state has received more than 130,000 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, only 20% of that supply has been administered to healthcare workers. Oregon Health Authority spokesman Jonathan Modie said there are a few reasons for the delay of this statewide effort: Pfizer needs ultr...