The Oregon Nurses Association said the vaccination requirement will “put additional pressure on an already dangerous nurse staffing crisis in Oregon.” The state’s largest nurses union warned in a statement that the governor’s mandate is likely to result in a boost in vaccination rates, but also will prompt some health care workers to leave the profession because they are “deeply opposed to vaccine mandates.” Vaccines, coupled with other proven public health mitigation strategies, are the best way to ensure our schools stay open and are a safe place for students to learn and for educators to teach.”
“OEA believes that today’s vaccine requirement will help provide stability for our students this fall and will help improve safety in our schools,” OEA president Reed Scott-Schwalbach said in a statement. The statewide teachers union, the Oregon Education Association, issued a statement in support of the plan. Thursday’s announcement of impending vaccine mandates was met with mixed responses across Oregon. “All options remain on the table,” she said.
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And despite the availability of vaccines, more cases are spreading in 12- to17-year-olds than any other group of children.īrown sidestepped giving a direct answer when asked if she might mandate vaccines for school children older than 12 once the COVID-19 vaccines receive full approval from the Food and Drug Administration. They’re also making up a larger proportion of the total cases, at 12.7%. There are more children hospitalized with COVID-19 in Oregon than at any point in the pandemic. “Because children under 12 are still not vaccinated, masks are a critical tool for preventing our children from getting sick at school,” Brown said.
The governor emphasized that masks will also remain part of the state’s strategy to combat the spread of the coronavirus at a time when infections are surging, especially in schools. It’s that urgent,” Allen said at the news conference. Oregon Health Authority director Patrick Allen warned that the situation in Oregon hospitals has become “increasingly dire.” He asked unvaccinated people to avoid any non-essential activities. Related: Oregon reports record COVID-19 case numbers as hospitals fillīrown and her top health advisers used Thursday’s media briefing to call on all Oregonians to help curb the surge of cases, fueled by the highly contagious delta variant. “We’ve seen school districts in the South being inundated by COVID-19 with thousands of students in quarantine because they opened without robust safety measures.” I know many parents are anxious about sending their children back to school and back to the school buildings,” Brown said. While the rate of serious illness doesn't appear to be as prevalent as with delta, it's causing more serious illness in more vulnerable populations.“Oregon schools are opening their doors for full-time in-person instruction over the next few weeks. If the OHSU forecast holds, there will be extreme strain on the hospitals starting in mid-January. "Since the first cases were detected there almost three weeks ago, it is now doubling every two to three days," they say. They've been studying the situations in the United Kingdom and Denmark, which have similar immunity profiles to Oregon. While Oregon has only had three cases of the omicron variant through December 17, Graven and his colleagues expect that number to rise. Graven just led a new forecast by OHSU that states omicron will "drive a wave of severe illness that will eclipse previous surges of hospitalizations in Oregon." "We expect that cases will ramp up quickly." "We have about two to three weeks before we’ll see omicron accelerate and become the dominant strain circulating in Oregon," the director of the OHSU Office of Advanced Analytics, Peter Graven, Ph.D., said. Officials say that it's about to get worse. In Region 2 – which is Benton, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, Polk, and Yamhill Counties – the numbers are roughly the same.
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