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The news that 12 staffers at OHSU tested positive for COVID-19 underscores the ongoing and increasing need for PPE — personal protective equipment.
Monday morning, Governor Kate Brown, Senator Jeff Merkley, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and frontline workers and employers in Oregon called on the Trump administration to immediately distribute masks and equipment held in the strategic national stockpile.
SALEM, Ore. – Governor Kate Brown says Oregon is making progress on boosting its supply of personal protective equipment for those on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak, but she wants the federal government to do more.
Brown will join Senator Jeff Merkley, Representative Suzanne Bonamici, first responders and healthcare workers on a conference call Monday morning.
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon leaders at the state and federal level along with employers and union members held press briefing at 10 a.m. Monday to reinforce the need for an increased supply of personal protective equipment in the state.
Monday morning, we heard from Governor Kate Brown, Senator Jeff Merkely, Representative Suzanne Bonamici among frontline workers and employers in Oregon.
The home care worker from Springfield told a video conference of elected officials and health care representatives that her 70-year-old mother-in-law is watching her child because Hunt fears exposing her daughter to the new virus.
Oregon policy makers on Monday morning heard pleas from health care workers like Hunt for more personal protective equipment. Gov. Kate Brown, Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Sen. Jeff Merkley attended the Zoom video conference hosted by the Service Employees International Union.
On Wednesday, March 25, Oregon's congressional delegation — Reps. Suzanne Bonamici, Peter DeFazio, Earl Blumenauer, Greg Walden, and Kurt Schrader, and Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley — described "serious shortages" of personal protective equipment, including respiratory masks, surgical gowns and gloves in helping to combat the spread of the coronavirus. This equipment is necessary to protect the health of responders, health care workers and the public to prevent the further spread of the coronavirus.
U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., offered her reaction to House passage Friday, March 27, of the $2 trillion federal aid plan for economic relief linked to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. The bill (HR 748) goes to President Donald Trump.
The relief package included Bonamici's Advocating for Older Americans During Coronavirus Crisis Act, which will make sure seniors in long term care facilities have access to support advocates during the crisis.
Oregon's congressional delegation asked the White House Wednesday, March 25, to issue a major disaster declaration for the state.
A disaster declaration can provide financial and other assistance to local businesses, nonprofit groups and state agencies.
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and U.S. Reps. Peter DeFazio, Earl Blumenauer, Suzanne Bonamici, Kurt Schrader and Greg Walden wrote a letter to the White House supporting Gov. Kate Brown's request for the declaration because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Oregon's congressional delegation announced Friday the Small Business Administration has approved Gov. Kate Brown's request to declare the state an economic disaster, paving the way for small businesses to get emergency loans.
Portland Center Stage had just opened The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time. A Broadway smash hit, managing director Cynthia Fuhrman was confident from the overwhelmingly positive audience response that the show would make enough in ticket sales to offset the hefty production costs, large cast and royalties associated with the production.