Kevin Winthrop, M.D., M.P.H., is quoted in a press release about Phase 2 trial results for opaganib, an investigational therapy for hospitalized COVID-19 patients with pneumonia. He says: “The need for an effective oral therapy to treat COVID-19 is clear. Such a therapy would greatly improve our ability to manage this pandemic.”

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown visited a community vaccination event at Harrison Park School that was organized by OHSU and several community partners on June 21. She says: “The best thing we can all do to help our state stay healthy and more fully reopen is to get vaccinated."

William Messer, M.D., Ph.D., describes his study, which found that 20 people who got COVID-19 in 2020 sill memory cells, which can make antibodies should they be exposed to the virus again, 11 months later. He says: “Even a year after the first infection our immune system is still poised to protect against a repeat infection."

In an article about the National COVID Cohort Collaborative, Melissa Haendel, Ph.D., says: “We never would have gotten everyone to give us this degree of data outside the context of the pandemic, but now that we’ve done it, it’s a demonstration that clinical data can be harmonized and shared broadly in a secure way, and a transparent way.”

Blair Peters, M.D., is the author of a guest editorial that says as the medical field provides more gender-affirming health care, it is “providing care that has always been medically necessary, but only recently acknowledged as such."

A feature highlights work conducted at OHSU Primary Care Clinic, Scappoose to increase vaccination rates for human papillomavirus. Maeve McGarry, D.N.P, FNP-C, says: “Our clinic is dedicated to improving the health and safety of our community, and by increasing HPV vaccine rates among children and adolescents, we can prevent future disease.”

David D. Clarke, M.D., describes a variety of conditions that can cause nausea, including acid reflux and gallbladder disease, and recommends that patients see a doctor if nausea last more than two days.

After vaccinating hundreds of thousands of Oregonians against COVID-19, OHSU’s Portland International Airport vaccine site, as well as the All4Oregon site at the Oregon Convention Center close. Connie Amos, M.S., says “I feel like it’s probably one of the most important things I’ve done in my life to be part of such an historic event really."

Alan Teo, M.D., M.S., says it’s appropriate for people to feel uncomfortable about going out in public after staying home and away from others during the pandemic, adding “don’t feel pressured to what the next guy is doing."

Individuals who receive a first-dose COVID-19 vaccine at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland Airport and Hillsboro Stadium mass vaccination sites, and OHSU community clinics, receive $100 gift cards, while supplies last.