February 9, 2021, 11:28am Clark County Health Free
Clark County's COVID-19 activity level fell sharply in data released Tuesday by Clark County Public Health as the rate of new infections continues to decline. Read story
February 9, 2021, 8:01am Health Free
The coronavirus most likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, a team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 said Tuesday, dismissing as unlikely an alternate theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab. Read story
February 8, 2021, 12:40pm Health Free
Evidence is mounting that having COVID-19 may not protect against getting infected again with some of the new variants. People also can get second infections with earlier versions of the coronavirus if they mounted a weak defense the first time, new research suggests. Read story
February 8, 2021, 11:34am Clark County Health Free
A downward trend in new Clark County COVID-19 cases continued this weekend, with the lowest three-day total since late October, according to Public Health data. No new deaths were reported. Read story
February 8, 2021, 6:00am Business Free
For every month since evictions were banned in Washington last March, tenants in the state accrued somewhere around $100 million in owed rent. By that estimate — which comes from the state Department of Commerce — renters here could now be over $1 billion in debt, a sum that grows… Read story
February 7, 2021, 3:00pm Health
Mortuary owner Brian Simmons has been making more trips to homes to pick up bodies to be cremated and embalmed since the pandemic hit. Read story
February 7, 2021, 2:21pm Nation & World
French pharmaceutical startup Valneva had big news in September: a government contract for 60 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine candidate. Read story
February 7, 2021, 6:00am Northwest
Contrary to Gov. Kate Brown’s recent assertion that all senior care residents have been able to get a shot of the coronavirus vaccine, more than 1,200 care homes aren’t even in line. Read story
February 6, 2021, 7:04pm Nation & World
With coronavirus cases still climbing, Honduras got tired of waiting to get vaccines through a United Nations program, so the small Central American country struck out on its own, securing the shots through a private deal. Read story
February 6, 2021, 7:02pm Politics
The Biden administration will soon begin collecting data from thousands of U.S. schools to find out how they have been affected by the pandemic, including how many have returned to in-person instruction, officials said Friday. Read story
