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KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. - This week marks the eligibility for those 70 and older to be vaccinated. There are a total of 10,222 people aged 70 and older in Klamath County. It will be weeks, perhaps months, before everyone who would like to be vaccinated will have access to the vaccine.
Read MoreKLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. - Two significant events happened Monday. First, individuals 75 and older became eligible for vaccination. Second, national bad weather brought the news this week’s shipment of vaccine will most likely be delayed until Thursday.
Read MoreVaccine has arrived in the community. To build a hedge of protection, it is being administered to healthcare professionals and residents of skilled nursing and long-term care facilities. It is important that medical capacity be preserved and these initial inoculations go toward that greater good.
Read MoreSALEM, Ore. - Parents are understandably nervous about taking their children and teens to their doctors’ offices right now. As a result, children in Oregon are falling behind on their childhood vaccinations.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Children’s Clinic of Klamath is participating in the Rural Adolescent Vaccine Enterprise (RAVE) project. Over the next 18 months, Children’s Clinic of Klamath along with 44 other clinics in Oregon – including Klamath Health Partnership and Sanford Children’s Clinic (to begin RAVE in June 2020), will lead a community-wide intervention project designed to improve local adolescent immunization rates.
Read MoreKlamath Falls, Ore. – Klamath County Public Health (KCPH) reminds local families that immunizations must be updated before February 20, which is school exclusion day.
For families visiting their primary care provider to update vaccinations, the appointment presents a ready opportunity to discuss other immunizations that provide protection against communicable diseases. The current measles outbreak has …
Read MoreAbout 98 percent of students in the Klamath County School District have been vaccinated against the measles, according to district records, but with the recent measles outbreak in Clark County, Wash., parents should still make sure their child’s immunizations are current.
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