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January 11, 2021
I hope that you and your loved ones are doing well, staying healthy, and looking out for your neighbors and friends in these difficult times.
Today’s COVID case numbers continue to decline, as do hospitalizations. This could be a function of lower weekend reporting, or it could be more than that. We’ll see as the week progresses.
Today’s first day of the 81st Legislative Assembly fortunately went without negative incident. As expected, no protests took place outside the Capitol. We should, however, anticipate their return for our next in-person session on January 19, as part of the expected national actions from those opposed to the inauguration on January 20.
Today’s Senate session went relatively quickly. We did have one Senator (Dallas Heard of Roseburg) who refused to wear a face covering and chose to leave once we adopted Senate rules that require everyone to wear one while the pandemic is raging.
The House session went on much longer, as they had to deal with the question of what to do with Representative Mike Nearman, the legislator who opened the door and allowed violent protesters into the Capitol on December 21st. He is the subject of an ongoing investigation. For now, he has been stripped of his committee assignments, obliged to pay a $2,000 fine to cover the damages his actions caused, obliged to give up his pass key, and had to promise not to allow non-legislators into the building. In addition, the Speaker of the House has called on him to resign. You can read more about it in today’s Oregonian.
Again, if you’re interested in seeing all the bills that were introduced today, you can https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1 Bills will be assigned to committees by next Tuesday.
Please stay safe, and let me know if you have any questions about information in today’s newsletter.
TODAY’S CORONAVIRUS AND CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE UPDATE
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New COVID Cases: OHA reports 939 new COVID cases today. This count is a combination of positive test results and those who are presumed positive (see definition below). The cumulative number of cases in Oregon since the beginning of the pandemic is 126,607.
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Positive Test Results: OHA reports 923 positive test results today. (Individuals may have had multiple tests come back positive, and each is now counted separately.) The cumulative total of positive test results since the beginning of the pandemic is now 170,546.
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Total Tests: OHA reported an additional 12,934 tests today. Our cumulative total of reported tests is now 2,839,839.
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Positivity Rate: Today’s test positivity ratio for Oregon is 7.1%. The national ratio today is 10.5%.
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Deaths: I’m sorry to report 10 additional COVID deaths today. You can read about the Oregonians that we’ve lost further down in the newsletter. The total number of COVID deaths in Oregon is now 1,613.
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Hospitalized: OHA reports 128 new COVID hospitalizations since Friday, an average of 43 per day. The total number of new hospitalizations since the beginning of the pandemic is 6,992.
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Vaccinations: As of the end of yesterday, here are the latest numbers:
- New Immunizations Reported: 7,585
- 5,422 administered yesterday
- 2,163 administered previously and report received yesterday
- Total First and Second Doses Administered So Far: 104,595
- This is 39% of the vaccines received so far (national average is 36.4%).
- Total Oregonians vaccinated so far: 99,627
- 4,828 now fully vaccinated with two doses
- Total Doses Delivered to Oregon: 270,800
- For more details, including the demographics of those receiving the vaccine, go to the OHA Vaccinations Dashboard. And here is a link to more information about the vaccine and vaccination protocols. Finally, here is the daily vaccination tracker from Bloomberg.
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Presumptive Cases: OHA is including “presumptive COVID-19 cases” in its 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 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.
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Other Hospital Information:
- Patients Currently with COVID-19 Symptoms (who may or may not have received a positive test result yet): 453 (45 fewer than Friday). Of those, 409 (42 fewer than Friday) have already received a positive test back.
- Available ICU Beds: 175 (34 more than Friday)
- Other Available Beds: 760 (162 more than Friday).
- ICU Patients Confirmed w COVID-19: 85 (3 fewer than Friday).
- Confirmed COVID-19 Patients Currently on Ventilators: 49 (5 fewer than Friday).
- Available Ventilators: 755 (19 fewer than Friday).
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Dashboards:
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Today’s National Numbers:
- Total Tests: 270,089,586 (up 1,897,059 from yesterday).
- Total Cases: 22,324,541 (up 199,612 from yesterday.)
- Deaths: 367,393 (up 1,796 from yesterday).
- These national numbers come from the COVID Tracking Project. You can visit that site here.
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Additional Brief Updates:
- OHA reported the latest County Risk Metrics today. It shows increases in statewide infection rates for the last two weeks and in most counties—with Multnomah County the largest exception.
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 reported is 939. Here is the breakdown of cases by county today:
Baker (1)
Benton (13)
Clackamas (87)
Clatsop (1)
Columbia (14)
Coos (15)
Crook (1)
Curry (1)
Deschutes (38)
Douglas (16)
Hood River (3)
Jackson (40)
Jefferson (5)
Josephine (38)
Lane (61)
Lincoln (8)
Linn (13)
Malheur (2)
Marion (110)
Morrow (8)
Multnomah (16)
Polk (40)
Tillamook (2)
Umatilla (63)
Union (5)
Wasco (7)
Washington (314)
Yamhill (18)
And the Deaths:
Note from OHA: Oregon’s 1,200th and 1,237th COVID-19 deaths, reported on Dec. 15 and Dec. 16 respectively, are the same person. Oregon’s 1,186th and 1,031st deaths, reported on Dec. 15 and Dec. 6 respectively, also are the same person. The numbers have been adjusted accordingly.
Oregon’s 1,604th COVID-19 death is a 73-year-old woman in Jefferson County who tested positive on Dec. 25 and died on Jan. 9 at St. Charles Medical Center – Bend.
Oregon’s 1,605th COVID-19 death is a 57-year-old woman in Lane County who tested positive on Dec. 18 and died on Jan. 9 at Oregon Health & Science University.
Oregon’s 1,606th COVID-19 death is an 88-year-old man in Lane County who tested positive on Dec. 23 and died on Jan. 7 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend.
Oregon’s 1,607th COVID-19 death is a 53-year-old man in Lane County who tested positive on Dec. 28 and died on Jan. 8 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend.
Oregon’s 1,608th COVID-19 death is a 91-year-old man in Multnomah County who tested positive on Dec. 13 and died on Dec. 21 at his residence.
Oregon’s 1,609th COVID-19 death is a 91-year-old woman in Multnomah County who tested positive on Dec. 3 and died on Dec. 11 at her residence.
Oregon’s 1,610th COVID-19 death is a 74-year-old woman in Multnomah County who tested positive on Dec. 18 and died on Dec. 30 at Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center.
Oregon’s 1,611th COVID-19 death is a 95-year-old woman in Multnomah County who tested positive on Jan. 1 and died on Jan. 8 at Adventist Hospital.
Oregon’s 1,612th COVID-19 death is a 93-year-old woman in Multnomah County who tested positive on Dec. 15 and died on Jan. 2 at her residence.
Oregon’s 1,613th COVID-19 death is a 98-year-old woman in Washington County who tested positive on Dec. 29 and died on Jan. 4 at her residence.
Additional Graphs:
   **You can find a breakdown of regional availability here.
 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 (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:
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,
AND FINALLY,
Here again are some resources that you will find useful:
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
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