January 25th COVID-19 Update

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January 25, 2021

Friends and Neighbors,

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 is more of the same on the COVID and immunization fronts. As you’ll see in tonight’s newsletter, that’s a good thing.

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

New COVID Cases: OHA reports 435 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 138,587.
Positive Test Results: OHA reports 369 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 183,262.
Total Tests: OHA reported an additional 7,862 tests today. Our cumulative total of reported tests is now 3,081,394.
Positivity Rate: Today’s test positivity ratio for Oregon is 4.7%. The national ratio today is 7.8%.
Hospitalization Information:
- Patients Currently with Confirmed COVID-19: 320 (10 more than yesterday)
- Available ICU Beds: 183 (same as Friday)
- Other Available Beds: 712 (1 fewer than Friday).
- ICU Patients Confirmed w COVID-19: 75 (5 fewer than yesterday).
- Confirmed COVID-19 Patients Currently on Ventilators: 38 (3 fewer than Friday).
- Available Ventilators: 781 (15 fewer than Friday).
Deaths: I’m sorry to report 2 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 1,882.
Vaccinations: As of the end of yesterday, here are the latest numbers:
- New Immunizations Reported Today: 7,390
  - 6,182 administered yesterday
  - 1,208 administered previously and report received yesterday
- Total First and Second Doses Administered So Far: 308,051
- Total Oregonians vaccinated so far: 263,160.
  - 40,775 now fully vaccinated with two doses
- To date, 492,450 doses of vaccine have been delivered to sites across Oregon. No increase from yesterday.
  - 62.6% of these doses have been administered so far (national average is now 54.1%). Oregon is now #12 for the percentage of doses administered, and remains much higher than our neighboring states in the West.
  - For more details, including the demographics of those receiving the vaccine, here is a link to more information about the vaccine and vaccination protocols.
  - Here is the daily vaccination tracker from Bloomberg.
  - And here is a link to each county's vaccination website. It provides access information for those in Category 1a and (eventually) in 1b.

Today’s National Numbers:
- Total Tests: 296,757,892 (up 1,696,188 from yesterday).
- Total Cases: 24,935,139 (up 133,067 from yesterday.)
- Deaths: 411,823 (up 1,593 from yesterday).
- These national numbers come from the COVID Tracking Project. You can visit that site HERE https://covidtracking.com/data/national
Additional Brief Updates:
- Lake Oswego School District has has decided to postpone its in-person reopening. apparently in order to bring it in line with educator vaccinations and to make sure that case rates are continuing to decline.
- As you’ve seen in these newsletters, national case rates and death rates have been in decline this last week. Is that due to vaccinations? Likely no. Here’s an article with an explanation from Dr. Fauci.

How About a Constituent Cocktail?

Now that session is on, I’m planning to supplement the regular First-Saturday-of-the-Month Constituent Coffee Zooms with evening Constituent Cocktail Zooms. (Sorry, you’ll need to do your own stirring, shaking, and/or pouring. I’ll be drinking my own kombucha.)

The first of these will be this Thursday, January 28, 5:30-7:00. You can register for it here.

OHA Has Info for K-12 Education & Childcare Workers Seeking Vaccine – and for others

OHA has just sent out a release that contains information for those of you newly eligible on how to access the vaccine. In a nutshell, you should be hearing from your employer. Actually, in some of the more rural counties, many educators already received their first doses last week.

The release also has addresses and phone numbers for anyone with vaccination questions.

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 435. Two-thirds of today’s reported cases are again in counties outside of the Portland Tri-County area. Here is the breakdown of cases by county today:

Baker (1)

Benton (4)

Clackamas (46)

Columbia (1)

Coos (11)

Crook (1)

Deschutes (21)

Douglas (12)

Harney (1)

Hood River (1)

Jackson (25)

Josephine (10)

Lake (4)

Lane (36)

Lincoln (5)

Linn (7)

Marion (48)

Morrow (1)

Multnomah (105)

Polk (6)

Tillamook (1)

Umatilla (20)

Union (3)

Wasco (6)

Washington (50)

Yamhill (9)

And the Deaths:

Oregon’s 1,881st COVID-19 death is an 81-year-old man in Linn County who tested positive on Dec. 20 and died on Jan. 23 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center

Oregon’s 1,882nd COVID-19 death is a 90-year-old woman in Yamhill County who tested positive on Jan. 14 and died on Jan. 23 at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center.

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 (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,

Want to See Past Newsletters?

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.

Best,

Senator Michael Dembrow
District 23

email: Sen.MichaelDembrow@oregonlegislature.gov
web: www.senatordembrow.com
phone: 503-281-0608
mail: 900 Court St NE, S-407, Salem, OR, 97301

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