After 72 injuries and 1 death, Peloton recalls its treadmills; Ben Hoffman, M.D., says: “This equipment is heavy, can have many moving parts, and can cause serious injury or death through entrapment, strangulation, and the speed of those moving parts. It is best to have that equipment in a place where young kids cannot access it unintentionally; for example, put it behind closed doors.”

Matthias Merkel, M.D., Ph.D., encourages young people to get vaccinated as soon as they are eligible: “I have three children. Two of them are under 16 and I’m waiting for them to be eligible to get vaccinated because I think it’s the best risk reduction we can offer any of us to not ending up in any of our ICU needing this therapy. It reduces substantially your risk of dying of COVID-19 — so yes, absolutely get vaccinated"

Karen Adams, M.D., discusses the pros and cons of various personal lubricants.

Oregon lawmakers call for oversight of universities’ handling of sexual and racial harassment complaints on campuses.

Paul Yang, M.D., Ph.D., presents six-month study results from the Phase 1/2 trial investigating the experimental gene therapy AGTC-501 for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa at ARVO 2021.

In honor of Nurses Week, local businesses donate food and items for a silent auction; Janna Mae Lamb, R.N., coordinates donations for the oncology unit and says: "The response I got made our staff feel so appreciated."

One week after moving businesses in several counties to the extreme risk category, Gov. Brown moves them back to high risk and notes if the pace of vaccination continues, she plans to lift restrictions by the end of June; Peter Graven, Ph.D., says: "Cases will fall and vaccine levels will be high enough that with basic preventive measure the virus cannot grow."

In an article that looks at the pros and cons of COVID-19 testing in schools, Leslie Bienen, D.V.M., says: “Surveillance testing sends a message that school is not safe, when data overwhelmingly show the opposite is true. School is one of the safest places to be in any community. Why would we surveillance-test in schools when that is not where COVID-19 is still spreading? It doesn’t make sense.”

In an article about whether COVID-19 vaccines protect against new variants, Fikadu Tafesse says: "It is true that there is less efficacy against these new variants, but it doesn’t mean there is a complete absence of protection. The good thing is these vaccines are extremely good.”

Eric Simpson, M.D., and colleagues from George Washington University serve as scientific co-directors of the CorEvitas atopic dermatitis registry, which has enrolled more than 1,000 patients in less than a year.