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Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Readers Respond to Nurses’ Accounts of Working Through the Worst Week of the Pandemic “This is a truly dark and shameful chapter in our history, and so much of it would have been preventable.” Cleaning an ambulance at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center. (Alex Wittwer) Last week, WW in which she wrote of feeling "shaken by a different sort of suffering" working in the Legacy Health's intensive care unit, and pleaded for Ameri...

Updated December 16, 2020 The same day as some Oregon doctors and nurses received their first doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, state officials offered another reason for hope: For the first time in two months, the second wave of the pandemic showed signs of slowing. The lull was modest: an 11% decline in new cases of the virus from the previous week. That week, beginning Nov. 30, was the worst since the pandemic began in terms of infections, hospitalizations and deaths. All three declined the week of Dec. 7, albeit only slightly. "Four hundred ninety-one Oregonians were hospitalized with COV...