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Portland, Oregon, Please Put Those Masks Back On [1]
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Date: 2022-12-03
Health officials in Multnomah County (home to Portland, Oregon) are asking people to wear masks indoors again.
Officials are urging everyone, including in K-12 schools and childcare centers, to wear masks in public indoor spaces until at least Jan. 1, 2023 due to the surge in respiratory winter viruses especially among children.
“The recommendation is voluntary ... But the action is needed to slow the flow of ill children into Portland hospital emergency rooms and pediatric intensive care units.”
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“Respiratory viruses like RSV and influenza typically surge in winter. They are particularly virulent this year after shutdowns in schools and childcare in 2020 and 2021 abnormally suppressed the usual cycle of babies, toddlers and young parents being exposed to RSV and developing stronger immunity for the following season.
Instead, children under five who have never encountered the common RSV seem particularly hard hit. And older children and adults are also spreading the disease.”
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Dr. Wendy Hasson, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Randall Children’s Hospital, said “Randall [Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel] is seeing historic numbers not only of admissions but also of emergency room visits.”
Doernbecher Pediatric Specialist Dr. Carl Eriksson said ... “Doernbecher is using all of the physical beds in the [pediatric] ICU and will start using physical beds outside of the ICU, and they are continually identifying kids who can be well served outside of the children’s hospital, like older teens who can be cared for in adult beds. “
Dr. Vines said:
everybody 6 months and older should be vaccinated for the flu and COVID,
anyone living with someone less than 6 months old should be vaccinated.
“It’s never too late to start your vaccine series.”
www.multco.us/...
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