University to require vaccination
Linfield University, like many other colleges and universities in Oregon and across the nation, will require students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine before they return to campus this fall. Faculty and ...
County health department stops following state law for teen vaccinations
State law allows teen-agers 15 and older to decide for themselves whether to be vaccinated, without parental consent, including choosing the vaccine for COVID-19. But, reportedly at the request of County ...
Businesses question CDC mask guidelines
Upending the expectations of many epidemiologists and health departments, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week announced that fully vaccinated people can now forego ...
Jeb Bladine: Restrictions hang on vaccine levels
If numbers make your head spin, you’re at the wrong place; if not, read on for facts and speculation on Yamhill County’s chances for early reduction of COVID-19 restrictions. Whatchamacolumn Jeb ...
County just more than half-vaxxed
Four schools in Yamhill County are reporting COVID-19 cases among their students, while slightly more than half the county’s COVID-19 vaccine-eligible population has now been vaccinated, county Health ...
County reports 48 new COVID-19 cases
Case counts remained relatively unchanged in Yamhill County in the last week, while Oregon as a whole has seen new cases of COVID-19 begin to decline slightly. In the same period, cases in Yamhill County ...
County COVID-19 cases top 4,300
Yamhill County reported 47 new cases of COVID-19 for Saturday through Monday, bringing the county to a total, to date, of 4,325 cases. There have been 75 deaths in the county. Statewide, there have now ...
State COVID case counts down slightly after weeks of increases
Oregon saw mixed results in its tracking of COVID-19 last week. The Oregon Health Authority reported that the percentage of people testing positive increased from 6% to 6.8%, but there was a slight ...
UK variant spreading in Oregon
The “principle variant of concern” in the COVID-19 pandemic in Oregon is the so-called UK strain B.1.1.7, Brett Tyler, Director of Oregon State University’s Center for Genome ...
Oregon now has second highest rate of infection
Oregon is now second in the nation for new COVID-19 infections, after months of keeping its levels lower than most other states, and its hospitalization rates in several counties are close to triggering ...
County back to high risk category
Yamhill County is back in the high risk category for COVID-19 starting today, after cases climbed more during its two-week “caution” period. The county had just entered the low-risk ...
County reports another death, additional cases
Yamhill County reported 46 new cases of COVID-19 from Saturday to Monday, and one death. According to the Oregon Health Authority, a 58-year-old man diagnosed on Feb. 19 died April 7. He had underlying ...
Over 100 students exposed to COVID in Willamina
Three Willamina High School students and one other student were diagnosed with COVID-19, Superintendent Carrie Zimbrick told the News-Register Friday. Additionally, the baseball and ...
County will replace all planned J&J vaccine doses with Moderna
Health officials across Oregon and the country are making hasty plans to replace all Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine doses with Moderna or Pfizer, after learning Tuesday that the Centers for Disease ...
After bout with COVID, nursery worker encourages everyone to get vaccinated
For about two months in the summer, Maria I. Mota Garcia didn’t leave her Dayton home. Mota-Garcia, 53, along with her husband, daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren, all caught COVID-19. When ...
