OHA Director Says Fall A Target For Substantial Immunization Level

Oregon Health Authority Director Patrick Allen said he thinks fall is a reasonable target for getting to the point where enough people in the state are vaccinated against COVID-19 to get to reach a degree of herd immunity.  During a press conference with Governor Kate Brown today, Allen says he thinks the more optimistic messaging from the federal level has misled people, and that unless supply numbers pick up, it’s going to take longer than what the federal government believes.  Brown has set a goal of vaccinating 12,000 people per day by the end of next week.   Allen said they are actively working towards reaching the goal, but added there have been data reporting issues, and the OHA talked to 100 sites yesterday to clarify those and to adjust vaccine allocations, prioritizing those who can deliver more.

Adblock Detected

We have detected that you are using an adblock in your browser’s plugin to disable advertising from loading on our website.

Your Experience is very important to us, and your Ad Blocker enabled will cause our site not to perform as expected.  Turn off the Ad Blocker or add our site to your exceptions.  After you turn off or add exception please refresh the site or click ok.

Please note: Clicking OK below will NOT disable your ad blocker. You will need to make that change within the ad blocker's settings.