June 14th COVID-19 Update

June 14, 2020

Dear Neighbors and Friends:

I hope that you and your loved ones are doing well, staying healthy, and looking out for your neighbors and friends.

I hope you’re having a nice, restful weekend.  Since it’s the weekend, today’s newsletter will be a little different.  OHA are no longer issuing full data reports on Saturdays and Sundays.  But I’m still able to get you a lot of useful info regarding current infection rates. 

As a result of the modified reporting, you’ll notice a couple of changes in today’s report.  No information regarding hospitalizations and no specific breakout for positive test results (positive tests are combined with “presumptive positive” cases for today’s total positive cases.).  Monday’s report will incorporate the additional positive test results and hospitalization information.

As I do on Sundays, I’m also including a breakdown by age.  You’ll see that many younger Oregonians are catching the virus, but the more severe consequences are to found among those who are over the age of 60. 

TODAY’S CORONAVIRUS AND CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE UPDATE

• Positive Cases: OHA reports that 101 additional Oregonians have tested positive or have been presumed positive for COVID-19.  The cumulative total is now 5,636.
• Total Tests: The total number of positive tests, negative tests, and presumed positive cases in Oregon now stands at 173,882. That’s an increase of 3,403 from yesterday.
• Ratio: The percentage of positive results for today is 3.0%. (This includes the new presumptive positives, so the test ratio alone is likely a little lower.) Today’s national percentage is 4.3%. See below for a graph showing Oregon’s daily percentage changes over the last 14 days.
• Deaths: I’m afraid I have to report 2 additional death due to the coronavirus today.  The total number of deaths in Oregon is now at 176.   
• Hospitalized: No new hospitalization numbers today, so the total remains 875.
• Presumptive Cases: OHA is now including “presumptive COVID-19 cases” in its daily reports, consistent with recently amended guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A presumptive case is someone who does not yet have a positive PCR test result but is showing symptoms and has had close contact with a confirmed case. If they later test positive by PCR, those will be recategorized as confirmed cases. Today’s number of new presumed cases is 11, and the total number of those presumed positive is 170.
• Other Hospital Information: Below are Friday’s numbers.  They’ll be updated on Monday.
  • Patients Currently w COVID-19 Symptoms (who may or may not have received a positive test result yet): 130 (3 more than yesterday). Of those, 69 have already received a positive test back.
  • Available ICU Beds: 158 (31 fewer than yesterday).
  • Other Available Beds: 882 (22 fewer than yesterday).
  • ICU Patients w COVID-19 Symptoms (who may or may not have received a positive test result yet): 47 (8 more than yesterday).
  • COVID-19 Patients Currently on Ventilators: 15 (4 fewer than yesterday).
  • Available Ventilators: 792 (6 more than yesterday).
• Dashboards:
  • Oregon (OHA)
  • Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, & Yamhill Counties
• Today’s National Numbers:
  • Total Tests: 23,535,104 (up 494,800 from yesterday).
  • Positive Tests: 2,085,028 (up 21,239 from yesterday).
  • Deaths: 109,607 (up 358 from yesterday).
  • These national numbers come from the COVID Tracking Project. You can follow their updated numbers for each, state and the nation as a whole here.
• PPE:
  • In the last 24 hours the Emergency Coordination Center has not received any additional Personal Protective Equipment. You can track the history of incoming and outgoing PPE shipments here.

Looking at Age Metrics

Each Sunday I’ve been providing you with this week’s statewide case, hospitalization, and death metrics by age.  If you look at the age breakdown in previous newsletters, you’ll see that more younger people are in the category of new cases each week. Hospitalizations and deaths continue to be dominated by those above the age of 60.

Where Are Today’s New Cases?

If we put together the positive test results and new “presumptive” cases reported today, the overall number of new cases is 101.  Here is the breakdown by county for today: 

Clackamas (10)

Columbia (1)

Klamath (3)

Lane (1)

Lincoln (8)

Linn (1)

Malheur (2)

Marion (20)

Morrow (1)

Multnomah (32)

Umatilla (1)

Union (8)

Washington (13)

And the Deaths:

The OHA had this to say about the individuals we most recently lost to COVID-19:

Oregon’s 175^th COVID-19 death is a 95-year-old woman in Multnomah County, who tested positive on May 13 and died on June 8, at her residence. She had underlying medical conditions.

Oregon’s 176^th COVID-19 death is a 70-year-old woman in Washington County, who tested positive on May 4 and died on June 8, at Portland Providence Medical Center. She did not have underlying medical conditions.

Additional Graphs:

Want to See Past Newsletters?

If there was COVID-related information in a past newsletter that you want to go back to, but find you’ve deleted it, you can always go to my legislative website (www.senatordembrow.com), click on “News and Information,” and you’ll find them all there.  Also, if someone forwarded you this newsletter and you’d like to get it directly, you can sign up for it there.

AND FINALLY,

Here again are some resources that you will find useful:

• Multnomah County has a status report on reopening.
• You can view the reopening status of all 36 counties here.
• Here is the OHA’s coronavirus page, with links to a number of resources. 
• Oregon's Office of Emergency Management now has a website for information about COVID-19.
• You can sign up here for regular coronavirus updates from OHA.
• Multnomah County has an excellent website with lots of really important advice and guidance.
• Here’s one from the Governor’s Office.
• The Employment Department has put together a webpage with Q&A’s on a number of employment issues related to COVID-19 (e.g., eligibility for Unemployment Insurance benefits).
• The Oregon Education Department has a new site for COVID-19 updates.
• The Department of Corrections has a COVID tracking website.

If the above links are not providing you with answers to your questions or directing you to the help that you need, please consider me and my office to be a resource.  We’ll do our best to assist you or steer you in the right direction. 

Best,

Senator Michael Dembrow
District 23

email: Sen.MichaelDembrow@oregonlegislature.gov
web: www.senatordembrow.com
phone: 503-986-1723
mail: 900 Court St NE, S-407, Salem, OR, 97301