{"id":53849,"date":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/19\/oregonians-rebel-as-state-considers-indefinite-extension-of-pandemic-rules\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:10:41","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T17:10:41","slug":"oregonians-rebel-as-state-considers-indefinite-extension-of-pandemic-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/19\/oregonians-rebel-as-state-considers-indefinite-extension-of-pandemic-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregonians Rebel as State Considers &#8216;Indefinite Extension&#8217; of Pandemic Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>Officials have not said how low COVID-19 case numbers must go or how many people would have to be vaccinated for the requirements to be lifted<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, April 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; An indefinite extension on wearing masks and social distancing in all businesses is being considered by the administrator of the Oregon Department of Occupational Safety and Health.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Wood said the step is required to prevent current COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions from expiring, the <em>Associated Press<\/em> reported. &#8220;We are not out of the woods yet,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would maintain the rules until they are &#8220;no longer necessary to address the effects of the pandemic in the workplace,&#8221; Wood explained.<\/p>\n<p>However, many people are angered by the proposal. They say it is government overreach and note that officials will not say how low COVID-19 case numbers must go or how many people would have to be vaccinated for the requirements to be lifted, the <em>AP<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-oregon-6f7f919d27644d02c330da5a8648af95\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Associated Press<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials have not said how low COVID-19 case numbers must go or how many people would have to be vaccinated for the requirements to be lifted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":53930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-53849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}