Now that mask requirements across Oregon have lifted for most indoor public settings, it’s important to continue wearing a mask when visiting a health care setting. This includes all pharmacies including chains and independent pharmacies, whether you’re standing in line or at the counter. For more information, check out Oregon’s current mask guidelines. And to learn why it’s so important to mask up in health care settings, visit our blog.
OHA reported 2,185 new cases of COVID-19 during the week of Monday, March 7, through Sunday, March 13 – a 43% decline from the previous week, and a 96% drop from the COVID-19 peak case level recorded during the week of Jan. 17 through Jan 23.
There were 225 COVID-19-related hospitalizations, a 21% decrease over the previous week. There were 142 COVID-19-related deaths, a 16% increase over last week.
Reported COVID-19 test results dropped 17% compared to the previous week. There were 95,348 tests administered. Test positivity dropped to 3.3%.
We want to keep you informed about COVID-19 in Oregon. Data are provisional and change frequently.
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Samples for 924,008 tests have been reported positive.
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Samples for 9,765,478 tests have been reported negative.
COVID-19 hospitalizations
The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon is 242, which is 18 more than yesterday. There are 36 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit (ICU) beds, which is two more than yesterday.
There are 101 available adult ICU beds out of 672 total (15% availability) and 380 available adult non-ICU beds out of 4,296 (9% availability).
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.
More information about hospital capacity can be found here.
Vaccinations in Oregon
Today, OHA reported that 2,926 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added to the state immunization registry March 15. Of that total, 281 were initial doses, 363 were second doses and 810 were third doses and booster doses. The remaining 1,346 were administered on previous days but were entered into the vaccine registry March 15.
The seven-day running average is now 2,377 doses per day.
Oregon has now administered 4,174,139 doses of Pfizer Comirnaty, 241,716 doses of Pfizer pediatric, 2,730,507 doses of Moderna and 269,631 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines.
As of today, 3,169,224 people have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 2,877,151 people have completed a COVID-19 vaccine series.
These data are preliminary and subject to change.
Updated vaccination data are provided on Oregon’s COVID-19 data dashboards and have been updated today.
Cases and deaths
There are 35 new COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 6,933, Oregon Health Authority (OHA) reported at 12:01 a.m. today.
OHA reported 355 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. today, bringing the state total to 700,660.
The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported today are in the following counties: Benton (7), Clackamas (14), Clatsop (6), Columbia (8), Coos (5), Crook (1), Curry (3), Deschutes (24), Douglas (16), Grant (3), Hood River (6), Jackson (19), Jefferson (1), Josephine (11), Klamath (9), Lake (1), Lane (29), Lincoln (5), Linn (16), Malheur (3), Marion (33), Morrow (1), Multnomah (74), Polk (4), Tillamook (2), Umatilla (2), Wasco (3), Washington (43) and Yamhill (6).
Note: Updated information is known about Oregon’s 5,913th death reported Jan 20., a 71-year-old woman from Curry County. She is not deceased. Because of this update, we are renumbering our reports to start with 6,899 today.
Additional case and death information will be provided in an up dated release.
To learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine situation in Oregon, visit our web page (English or Spanish), which has a breakdown of distribution and other information.
