Oregon State’s Extension Service is reaching out to Latino and indigenous communities in Lincoln County to provide relevant COVID-19 information, including urgent video communications in Spanish and Mam.
Tag: COVID
A new study found that 77% of low- to moderate-income American households fall below the asset poverty threshold.
Preliminary results from random door-to-door TRACE-COVID-19 sampling by Oregon State University last weekend suggest that 17% of the Hermiston community had the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 on July 25-26. “The results of this study are a significant warning,” says Hermiston Mayor David Drotzmann. “We now have a clearer picture of how many people are […]
Preliminary results of a second round of door-to-door sampling by Oregon State University in Newport suggest a significantly lower prevalence of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 on July 11-12 than compared to a similar sampling three weeks earlier. The sampling found an estimated community prevalence of six in 1,000. The initial sampling on June […]
Prior to 2020, Professor Chunhuei Chi in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences had only been interviewed in the media twice. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chunhuei has logged 123 interviews with journalists from around the world, sometimes fielding five requests per day. On top of that, he has been a speaker on […]
Four months ago, most of us couldn’t have imagined how our work life would be altered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Especially Robin Maille. Robin wears several hats as an assistant professor of practice in the Oregon State University Extension Service Family and Community Health Program. She oversees nutrition education in Union and Baker counties, the […]