OHSU's Oct. 21 forecast, compiled by Peter Graven, Ph.D., suggests Oregon COVID-19 hospitalizations are not expected to fall below 400 until Thanksgiving.

The weekly Oregon Health & Science University forecast, issued late Thursday, Oct. 21, said state hospitalizations driven by the highly contagious delta variant won’t fall below 400 until Thanksgiving.

Coronavirus hospitalization rates are falling, but it is not going to decline as quickly as you think, according to Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU).

A National Guard member is removed from OHSU following sexual assault allegations by OHSU staff.

OHSU researchers participate in an NIH-led study that indicates health care costs for people with a rare disease are three to five times greater than the costs for people without a rare disease.

OHSU's Oct. 14 COVID-19 forecast that projects 177,000 more infections in Oregon until roughly Dec. 26, at which point roughly 85% of Oregonians will be immune through vaccination or recent infections.

"It's very easy to give yourself too much. Most people who develop symptoms probably took too much, but we did have several people who were taking it for days and weeks and then developed toxicity," said lead researcher Dr. Robert Hendrickson. He is associate medical director of the Oregon Poison Center and a professor of emergency medicine at Oregon Health and Science University, in Portland.

Rich Mullins, M.D, publishes commentary highlighting the accomplishments of pioneering surgeon-educator OHSU's Karen Deveney, M.D.

Kamalika Roy, M.D., is featured among the association's top ten Q&A's of the year on "health care issues that matter."