March 17, 2020 Coronavirus hits veterans home in Oregon A veterans' home in Oregon has been hit hard with the novel coronavirus, with all 14 cases in Linn County being linked to the Edward C. Allworth Veterans’ Home in Lebanon, according to local reports.
March 15, 2020 Coronavirus 'emergency'? Oregon police ask people to stop calling 911 because they ran out of toilet paper A police department in Oregon is urging people that if they’ve run out of toilet paper, it’s not worth calling 911.
March 15, 2020 Oregon distillery giving away free hand sanitizer It's time to start thinking out of the box.
March 15, 2020 Oregon woman helps elderly couple buy food amid coronavirus outbreak An Oregon woman helped an elderly couple buy food amid the COVID-19 outbreak saying on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Sunday, “It was a moment in which I really realized there are folks in this community that are much more affected than I am from the coronavirus.”
March 15, 2020 Oregon veteran, 70, is state's 1st coronavirus fatality, officials say A 70-year-old U.S. military veteran from Multnomah County, Ore., which includes Portland, has become the first patient in the state to die of coronavirus, the Oregon Health Advisory confirmed Saturday.
March 9, 2020 Hatchet-wielding doughnut thief nabbed by police a block away eating stolen sweets: cops A hatchet-wielding man allegedly robbed a Portland doughnut shop early Saturday morning – only to be nabbed by police a block away eating the same doughnuts he stole before fleeing on foot.
March 7, 2020 Homeless among the most vulnerable to coronavirus, experts say Homeless communities - with extremely unsanitary conditions in cities like Portland, Los Angeles, and New York City - are at a greater risk of catching and spreading coronavirus to the public at large.
March 6, 2020 Coronavirus confirmed cases and fatalities, state by state As of noon Wednesday, 13 states across the U.S. have reported over 80 confirmed, non repatriated cases of the novel coronavirus. Of those cases, 24 were travel-related, 16 were person-to-person spread and 40 are still under investigation. Here are the infected patient populations by state.
February 29, 2020 Trey Gowdy: It 'breaks my heart' to see coronavirus politicized, it should be 'unifying' Former Republican South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy said it "breaks [his] heart to see [coronavirus] politicized."
February 29, 2020 Dr. Marc Siegel: No need to panic about coronavirus, no role for politics in fight against outbreak There's no need to hit the "panic button" on coronavirus yet, ӣƵ medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel said Saturday.