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@OHAOregon
August 11, 2022
Media contact: Jonathan Modie, 971-246-9139, jonathan.n.modie@dhsoha.state.or.us
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon Health Authority’s Zoom media briefing on monkeypox (hMPXV) in Oregon is today (Aug. 11) at 11 a.m.
Dean Sidelinger, M.D., health officer and state epidemiologist at OHA, will join Patrick Luedtke, M.D., Lane County’s senior public health officer, and Katie Cox, executive director of The Equi Institute, to give an update on the state’s response to the outbreak and reporting of cases in Oregon, and take questions.
Interested reporters can join via Zoom at this link. A livestream also is available via YouTube at this link.