YACHATS – Lincoln County Public Health and medical volunteers are bringing a Covid-19 vaccine clinic to the Yachats pavilion from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday. The Yachats clinic will repeat the second Tuesday of February and March as well. The clinic will offer all three types of vaccines, booster shots for people who […]
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Number of Covid-19 cases in Lincoln County quadrupled last week as health officials urge more caution and booster shots
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County health officials are urging residents to take more precautions to slow the surge of local omicron Covid-19 cases, which have quadrupled the past week. By Thursday afternoon, the Oregon Health Authority reported 140 new Covid-19 cases in Lincoln County this week, including 74 on Thursday. There were 404 cases in […]
Daily Covid-19 cases double this week in Lincoln County, bringing new warnings from health officials about New Years gatherings
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Lincoln County have doubled in the past two days and public health officials believe it is due to holiday gatherings and the arrival of the omicron variant. Lincoln County Public Health also said Thursday that two people with Covid-19 are now hospitalized locally, breaking a string […]
As COVID-19 cases level off in Lincoln County, health officials begin to worry about a winter surge from holiday gatherings
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com After a steep decline from this summer, the number of COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County leveled off in November and now health officials worry that holiday gatherings could cause a spike in December and January, similar to last year. There were 334 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Lincoln County during November, slightly […]
Lincoln County announces its fourth COVID-19 case; state says ‘social distancing’ is working
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Lincoln County Public Health announced another positive case of COVID-19 on Thursday – bringing to four the number of county residents infected and the third confirmed coronavirus case in three days. The county said the latest case is a person in their 30s who had no known contact with a confirmed […]