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During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic response in 2020, the staff at El Buen Samaritano would provide food to more than 300 families every Tuesday and Thursday.
Inflation, stagnant federal funding for food programs and high housing costs mean that demand at food banks still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels.
PENDLETON, Ore. (CNN) – Several counties in Oregon are now implementing new restrictions as coronavirus cases rise. Health experts in the state are struggling to get people vaccinated. They have the supply but not the demand. In one rural corner of Eastern Oregon, the rolling hills stretch as far as the eye can see. Umatilla County is home to less than 80,000 residents. More than 60 percent voted for the Republican Party in 2020. There’s plenty of cattle, plenty of land and, these days, plenty of vaccines. So what’s the problem? Joe Fiumara is the director of public health for Umatilla ...