Updated COVID-19 Booster Shots are Available in Oregon—Here’s Where You Can Get One

Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are now available in Oregon for anyone ages 12 and up. Health officials believe the updated boosters will be a critical tool to mitigate an anticipated surge of infections in fall and winter.

“With fall and winter approaching with circulation of COVID-19 anticipated to increase, when most of us will spend more time indoors, the availability of safe and effective vaccine boosters offers us strong protection against the worst outcomes of COVID-19, including severe illness, hospitalizations and death,” said state epidemiologist Dean Sidelinger in a press release.

COVID cases in Oregon are currently declining, with an average of 492 daily reported cases during the last two weeks of August. However, COVID forecasts from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) and Oregon Health and Science University predict cases will start to creep back up in late September and continue to rise through the end of the year.

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