On Friday, Gov. Kate Brown announced that the state will accelerate its vaccine timeline to accommodate a directive from President Joe Biden to make vaccines available to all Americans by May 1. Under the new timeline, “frontline workers,” which includes restaurant and grocery workers, will be able to receive vaccinations by April 19 at the latest. That timeline, however, depends on the state receiving the allocated vaccines promised by the federal government, a promise that had been broken in previous months.
In December, the federal government short-changed the state in terms of vaccine allotment, and since then, the state has been wary to promise too optimistic a vaccine timeline,
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