April 15, 2021
One year ago today, Oregon Health Authority (OHA) answered the call to meet Spanish-speaking Oregonians where they are and launched our first Spanish language social media page. Through this platform we’ve been able to connect and communicate daily with people who need and/or prefer to receive health information in Spanish.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we offered bilingual messages on OHA’s English Facebook page. Soon after, we realized that wasn’t enough. We needed a communication channel that was exclusively in Spanish and shared content that met both language and cultural needs.
OHA’s Community Partner Outreach Program (CPOP) worked in close collaboration with OHA’s Health Information Center to ensure that people had access to helpful, life-saving information through OHA en Español. During this last year we’ve talked about COVID-19, wildfires, community resources, health coverage, winter storms, financial resources and many more important topics. For the first time, we’ve been able to simulcast press conferences offered by Governor Brown and informational Facebook Live sessions. We have also offered our own Spanish Live sessions and hope to host more in the future.
OHA en Español is managed by bilingual, bicultural OHA staff who are passionate about serving Spanish-speaking community members. However, this work would not be possible nor reach the nearly 400,000 Spanish-speaking Oregonians without you. Thank you! Thank you for your feedback and partnership. Thank you for following and supporting us. Thank you for sharing what we publish and thus ensuring that more people benefit from this information. You can watch a short video we created with this very thank you message here:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=235117645066576
We’re filled with hope as we work towards a more equitable future and remain committed to meeting all Oregonians where they are with what they need.
 
Jane Salisbury, pictured below right, a retired librarian who lives in the Portland area, shared her vaccine experience:
I was born in 1953, and polio was terrifying for people in those years. I was sick as a child, hospitalized more than once, and my parents told me later that those were the hardest years of their lives, to see their child in danger. They saw children with polio in the hospital when I was there, and never forgot it.
I was a young child when the oral polio vaccine was invented and everyone rejoiced in my small town. We lined up at the high school and crunched down our little sugar cubes and went home feeling happy. Our generation did not escape measles, mumps and rubella, but our children did. And no one had smallpox.
I got my COVID-19 vaccine appointment through the grapevine. The word went out that Safeway had doses, I signed up when I was eligible in early March and got my first shot at the Safeway on MLK in Portland.
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I felt nothing after the first shot, and a mild flu-ish feeling for a day and a half after the second shot. The side effects were no different than an ordinary flu shot.
We have all been enormously fortunate to escape these horrible illnesses, solely because of vaccinations. I am alive because of vaccinations. That is why it never crossed my mind not to be vaccinated for COVID-19.
At left, Jane on her bike in 1963.
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There are six new COVID-19 related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,455, the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. today.
Oregon Health Authority reported 733 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. today, bringing the state total to 172,931.
Today, OHA reported that 44,971 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added to the state immunization registry. Of this total, 29,445 doses were administered on April 14 and 15,526 were administered on previous days but were entered into the vaccine registry on April 14. Cumulative daily totals can take several days to finalize.
The seven-day running average is now 38,728 doses per day.
Oregon has now administered a total of 1,242,066 doses of Pfizer, 1,069,417 doses of Moderna and 87,339 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines. As of today, 945,453 people have completed a COVID-19 vaccine series. There are 1,492,658 who have had at least one dose.
To date, 1,499,355 doses of Pfizer, 1,301,500 doses of Moderna and 215,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines have been delivered to sites across Oregon.
These data are preliminary and subject to change.
OHA's dashboards provide regularly updated vaccination data, and Oregon’s dashboard has been updated today.
The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported today are in the following counties: Baker (16), Benton (18), Clackamas (63), Clatsop (3), Columbia (10), Coos (9), Crook (5), Curry (3), Deschutes (53), Douglas (10), Grant (1), Hood River (6), Jackson (34), Jefferson (5), Josephine (13), Klamath (46), Lane (74), Lincoln (6), Linn (23), Malheur (2), Marion (56), Morrow (1), Multnomah (120), Polk (22), Tillamook (3), Umatilla (9), Union (3), Wasco (8), Washington (98) and Yamhill (13).
Oregon’s 2,450th COVID-19 death is a 93-year-old woman in Clackamas County who tested positive on Jan. 14 and died on April 9 at her residence. The death certificate listed COVID-19 disease or SARS-CoV-2 as a cause of death or a significant condition contributing to death. She had underlying conditions.
Oregon’s 2,451st COVID-19 death is a 71-year-old woman in Baker County who tested positive on April 7 and died on April 14 at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. She had underlying conditions.
Oregon’s 2,452nd COVID-19 death is a 62-year-old man in Clackamas County who tested positive on March 22 and died on April 5 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center. Presence of underlying conditions is being confirmed.
Oregon’s 2,453rd COVID-19 death is a 52-year-old man in Jackson County who tested positive on March 24 and died on April 14 at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center. He had underlying conditions.
Oregon’s 2,454th COVID-19 death is an 82-year-old man in Linn County who tested positive on March 24 and died on April 8 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend. He had underlying conditions.
Oregon’s 2,455th COVID-19 death is an 89-year-old man in Polk County who tested positive on March 31 and died on April 13 at Salem Hospital. He had underlying conditions.
COVID-19 hospitalizations
The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon is 195, which is five fewer than yesterday. There are 53 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit (ICU) beds, which is one more than yesterday.
The total number of patients in hospital beds may fluctuate between report times. The numbers do not reflect admissions per day, nor the length of hospital stay. Staffing limitations are not captured in this data and may further limit bed capacity.
To learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine situation in Oregon, visit our webpage (English or Spanish), which has a breakdown of distribution and other information.
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