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September 23, 2021
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 during this past week.
I’m happy to report that the pause in the surge of new COVID cases and hospitalizations that we started seeing at the beginning of the month is now moving into steady declines in case numbers, test positivity, and hospitalizations. As you’ll see in tonight’s newsletter in the various reports and graphs, this is something we’re seeing statewide and in most counties. This supports what has been predicted by OHA and OHSU in recent weeks.
I don’t want to go overboard—as a state we’re still in High Risk status overall. (In fact, in the entire West only California is NOT still at high risk.) We’ve still got a long road ahead of us and need to continue to be careful.
The big news today is the recommendation from the CDC’s advisory panel regarding Pfizer boosters. They’re recommending that a third dose be available to a subset of those who received their second dose at least six months ago. The subset includes “seniors” (those 65 and older), people living in long-term care, and those with certain serious underlying conditions. There is apparently not clear evidence that younger people without such conditions need a third dose at this time.
Their recommendation will likely be finalized tomorrow.Here's a statement from OHA regarding the likely decision.
In tonight’s newsletter I’m also giving you my account of the ongoing, now-delayed redistricting process. You’ll find that after the article links.
Until next week, please stay healthy and safe, and let me know if you have any questions about information in tonight’s newsletter.
TODAY’S CORONAVIRUS AND CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE UPDATE
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New COVID Cases: OHA reports 1,836 new COVID cases today (vs. 2,242 last Thursday). That’s an average of 1,592 per day for the 7 days since the last newsletter (vs. 1,911 per day the previous week). The cumulative number of cases in Oregon since the beginning of the pandemic is 318,914.
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Variant COVID Cases:
- OHA is now showing us not only this week’s variant cases but the growth of the different variants in Oregon over time. You can see in the graph above just how the Delta variant has come to dominate cases here in Oregon. It is updated every Wednesday.
- OHA’s Variant Dashboard provides current and new variant case numbers for the state as a whole but also for different parts of the state. It too is updated each Wednesday.
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Positive Test Results: OHA reported 2,193 positive test results today (vs. 2,738 a week ago). That’s an average of 1,984 per day for the seven days since the last newsletter (vs. 2,362 per day the previous week). The cumulative total of positive test results since the beginning of the pandemic is now 440,534
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Total Tests: OHA reported an additional 27,407 tests today (vs. 24,018 a week ago). That’s an average of 21,920 per day for the seven days since the last newsletter (vs. 20,464 for the previous week). Our cumulative total of reported tests is 6,804,763.
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Positivity Rate: The test positivity ratio for Oregon today was 8.0% (vs. 11.4% a week ago). That’s an average of 9.1% per day for the seven days since the last newsletter (vs. 11.5% per day for the previous week).
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Hospitalization Information:
- Patients Currently with Confirmed COVID-19: 885 (142 fewer than last newsletter, 265 fewer than the newsletter before that)
- ICU Patients Confirmed w COVID-19: 263 (23 fewer than last newsletter.)
- Confirmed COVID-19 Patients Currently on Ventilators: 163 (13 fewer than last newsletter)
- Available Ventilators: 771 (37 fewer than last newsletter).
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Hospital Capacity:
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Deaths: I’m sorry to report 12 additional COVID deaths today (vs. 11 last Thursday). That’s an average of 16 per day for the week since the last newsletter (vs. 22 per day the previous week). The total number of COVID deaths in Oregon is 3,661.
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Vaccinations:
- Today’s seven-day running average is 7,713 doses per day (unfortunately, down from 8,535).
- Total First and Second Doses Administered So Far: 4,999,764
- 2,937,158 Pfizer/Comimaty vaccines
- 1,893,550 Moderna vaccines
- 212,116 Johnson & Johnson vaccines
- Total Oregonians vaccinated so far: 2,717,918 (up by 18,994)
- 2,458,176 now fully vaccinated with two doses (up by 24,276)
- 66.1% of all Oregonians have received at least one dose (77.7% of those 18 and older).***
- 60.2% of all Oregonians are now fully vaccinated (71.0% of those 18 and older).***
- For more details, including the demographics of those receiving the vaccine and the number of vaccinations by county, go to the OHA vaccinations dashboard.
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Bloomberg News provides a wealth of easy-to-read information on the trajectory of vaccinations—by state, nationally, and internationally.
Additional Brief Updates and Links
- You might have thought that the pandemic experience would lead states to invest more in public health and give their public health experts more authority to make decisions regarding disease response. It appears that in many states the opposite is the case. According to reporting from Kaiser Health News, more than half of all states have actually rolled back the powers delegated to public health.
- School districts around the state and around the nation are struggling with the need for children to quarantine when another student has tested positive for COVID. Here’s reporting on the problem in Multnomah County schools.
- In case you missed it, last weekend’s New York Times Magazine had a feature on the back-to-school experience at schools and colleges around the country.
- Here’s some of the latest news on COVID and back-to-campus on the higher education front from Inside Higher Education.
- When I walked by my local elementary school the other day and saw the kids in the playground playing around, all still wearing their masks, though they could have removed them, I was struck by how natural mask-wearing has become for many. Here’s a commentary from WBUR’s Rich Barlow entitled "If Only More Adults Treated Mask-Wearing Like Kids Do" that shows a similar reaction.
- Nevertheless, masking in schools unfortunately remains controversial. A teacher in the Redmond School District has been fired for refusing to wear a mask in school. She believes that to do so would set a bad example for her students. The school board has just reinstated her after she argued her case during a school board meeting. Here's reporting from OPB.
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Here's a brief interview on Slate with someone who is responsible for determining when religious exemptions to vaccinations are appropriate. It’s interesting.
- If no one else in the room is wearing a mask, does it help at all that you are? Yes, and here's why.
- As the deadline for showing proof of vaccination looms, more than 75% of Portland’s city workers are fully vaccinated and another 5% will soon be. Only ten workers have said they will neither seek an exemption nor get vaccinated. Here's more.
- Moving away from COVID, here’s the latest blog postfrom the Office of Economic Analysis, showing that overall incomes in Oregon remain strong, even without additional federal stimulus dollars coming in right now.
Redistricting Special Session Continues: Thanks to Disagreements and COVID
My intention for this newsletter had been for me to do a debrief on the legislative maps that had been finalized in the special session that would have ended on Monday or Tuesday. As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, the special session has not yet ended, at least for the House. The Senate passed out its maps and adjourned on Monday but for various reasons (which I’ll explain), the House is not yet there.
At this point, the earliest that the session could end is Saturday, though it could be extended through Monday. If the House isn’t able to pass bills with new legislative and congressional maps by the end of Monday (they have till midnight), responsibility for creating the new legislative districts moves to the Secretary of State, and responsibility for the new congressional maps moves to a panel of judges selected by the Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. There is also always the possibility (albeit remote) that the Governor will choose to veto one or both bills, in which case the redistricting responsibility would go to the Secretary of State and/or the panel of judges.
On Monday the Senate successfully passed the three special session bills:
SB 881:Congressional redistricting
SB 882: State legislative redistricting
SCR 31: The “Sine Die” (adjournment) resolution.
The first two bills passed on 18-11 on straight party-line votes. They had come out of committee on party-line votes as well. The committee consisted of two Republicans and three Democrats (who comprise 3/5 of the Senate). The two caucuses remained far apart on the congressional maps. However, on the legislative redistricting maps there was a fair amount of give-and-take between the two parties and the two chambers, including changes made as late as Monday morning. Although my Republican colleagues voted against the legislative maps, they had positive things to say about them and the process that led to them.
Things were more complicated in the House, where the Redistricting Committee was evenly split, even though Democrats represent 3/5 of the districts there as well. That was the result of an agreement made by the Speaker during the regular session in order to put an end to the Republicans’ parliamentary procedure of requiring every bill up for consideration to be read aloud in its entirety before debate and a vote could occur—which was preventing important business from being done.
I think the Speaker’s hope was that the two sides would be able to work out a compromise and come up with a joint proposal for both sets of maps, as we were able to do back in 2011 (when House Ds and Rs represented an equal number of districts). This time that didn’t happen.
Faced with the risk of failing to pass any maps (thereby turning SB 881 over to the judges and SB 882 to the Secretary of State), the Speaker decided to separate the issues and have a separate legislative redistricting committee (now equally split between four Republicans and four Democrats) and a congressional redistricting committee (with two Democrats and one Republican). One of the Republican members of the legislative committee was willing to vote to move SB 882 to the floor in order to leave the decision in the hands of the Legislature rather than the Secretary of State. SB 881 moved out of the congressional redistricting committee on a 2-0 vote (the Republican member chose not to attend). Both bills were therefore headed to the House floor on Tuesday morning.
The question then became whether or not Republicans would attend or would boycott the floor vote and thereby deny a quorum. This wouldn’t be the first time that a quorum would be denied during redistricting, though the circumstances the previous time were very different. Twenty years ago it was House Democrats who denied a quorum at the end of the 2001 redistricting process. That, however, was done in response to a dubious (and likely unconstitutional) parliamentary ploy by the Republican leadership at the time to get around the fact that the Governor and Secretary of State were Democrats. Rather than agree to compromises that would have assured the Governor’s signature on the bills, the Republicans for the first time in history drafted them as “resolutions,” rather than as bills. Resolutions don’t require the signature of the Governor, so this was an attempt at getting around the constitutional checks-and-balances of the Legislative/Executive/Judicial branches. The Democratic walkout caused a delay and prevented this ploy from being successful. Time ran out, the maps went to the Secretary of State for drafting, and his maps were upheld by the Courts.
OK, back to this week. It turned out that an added wrinkle arose, as COVID again reared its ugly head once again. It was learned on Tuesday that one of the House Republicans had tested positive for COVID. That member had been in close, unmasked contact with Republican colleagues on Monday (in private meetings off the House floor), some of whom have chosen not to be vaccinated. Our protocols require unvaccinated close contacts to test negative or quarantine for ten days (those who’ve been vaccinated are free of this requirement). The upshot was that between the time it would take for those exposed to the infected person to be eligible for testing (the test is most accurate a few days after the contact) and for the test to be processed, the earliest the House could reconvene for a floor session would be Saturday morning. And that’s where we currently stand.
Unfortunately, because we are still technically in session, all of our scheduled interim committee meetings for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday had to be canceled. Like our colleagues in the House, we in the Senate need to remain on hold in case we’re called back this weekend or Monday. If SB 881 and SB 882 are passed as is, there’s no need for us to return. If either or both of the bills are changed in any way (the bill or bills would need to be sent back to committee to be amended), then the Senate would need to come back to concur with the changes.
At this point I really can’t say for sure how this will turn out. But one thing I can say—we’ll know for sure no later than the end of Monday what the outcome is for the legislative portion of this process at least!
Once the maps are finalized, I’ll say more about the changes that are in them.
Here’s reporting on the redistricting saga from the Portland Mercury, the Statesman-Journal, and from OPB.
OHA Releases Latest County Metrics: Significant Declines Overall
Though it’s no longer assigning risk levels to counties, OHA is still reporting weekly increases/decreases in COVID spread for each county and for the state as a whole.
As you’ll see in the report, recent forecasts that we would begin to see declines around the state beginning in the second week of September have proven themselves to be on target. Both our statewide infection rate and test positivity rate are declining, though both are still at the Extreme Risk levels.
Every county remains at a level that the CDC considers High Risk or Extreme Risk, but you’ll see that nearly every county is showing declines.
Again, the pattern is clear: the counties with the highest vaccination rates are reporting the lowest infection rates (and as you'll see at the end of the newsletter, the lowest death rates).
Multnomah County is again the county with the lowest infection rate, followed by Benton and Washington County. The counties with the highest rates are now rural Lake and Malheur Counties. I’m pleased to report that the rates in Douglas, Josephine, and Jackson Counties have come way down (though they’re still above the state average). Douglas County saw its rates drop by nearly half last week, down to more than a third of what it was just a few weeks ago.
Weekly COVID Data and Outbreaks Report Released: Case Declines Continue
The Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Weekly Report, released on Wednesday, shows decreases in daily cases and the number of new hospitalizations, but an increase in deaths. This is very much in line with the forecasts that we’ve seen over the past few weeks. We should start seeing the number of deaths level off and decline in coming weeks. (Deaths generally follow new cases by about a month.)
- OHA reported 11,655 new cases of COVID-19 during the week of Monday, Sept. 13 through Sunday, Sept. 19. That represents a 10% decrease from the previous week.
- There were 579 new COVID-19 hospitalizations, up slightly from 592 last week.
- There were 148 reported COVID-19 related deaths, up from 120 reported the previous week.
- There were 140,538 tests for COVID-19 for the week of Sept. 12 through Sept. 18, a slight decline in testing from the previous week’s 149,123.
- The percentage of positive tests was 10.5%, down from 12% the previous week and the lowest level of test positivity in six weeks.
Today’s COVID-19 Weekly Outbreak Report shows 187 active COVID-19 outbreaks in senior living communities and congregate living settings, a slight increase from last week.
1/13/21 202 facilities
2/10/21 116 facilities
3/10/21 44 facilities
4/14/21 24 facilities
5/12/21 42 facilities
6/09/21 19 facilities
7/8/21 22 facilities
8/04/21 33 facilities
9/1/21 144 facilities
9/9/21 188 facilities
9/16/21 182 facilities
9/22/21 187 facilities
Statewide, these outbreaks have unfortunately resulted in an increasing number of deaths of residents (though fortunately nothing like what we were seeing pre-vaccination):
8/4 1,374 (pandemic total)
8/11 1,385 (pandemic total) +11
8/18 1,401 (pandemic total) +16
8/25 1,419 (pandemic total) +18
9/1 1,441 (pandemic total) +22
9/9 1,468 (pandemic total) +27
9/15 1,492 (pandemic total) +24
9/22 1,521 (Pandemic total) +29
You’ll see that less than 15% of last week’s deaths were among people in long-term care, a far cry from where we were prior to vaccines.
The Outbreak Report also includes the latest data on COVID in workplaces, childcare centers, and public and private K-12 schools.
 Weekly Breakthrough Case Report: More Cases Are Breakthroughs
OHA’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released today, found that 2,778 of the 11,994 reported COVID-19 cases between Sept. 12 through Sept. 18 occurred in people who were fully vaccinated. In other words, 23.2% of all cases were among the vaccinated: that’s an increase of 4.5% from last week’s 18.7%.
The latest breakthrough report can be found here.
Again, “breakthrough cases” are those where an individual is found to have COVID even though they are fully vaccinated against the virus. The increase in breakthrough cases can largely be attributed to the highly contagious nature of the Delta variant. Nearly all of them have very mild symptoms or no symptoms at all. To that extent, the vaccines are doing their job as intended, even against the more contagious delta variant.
Eighty-four cases involved residents of care facilities, senior living communities or other congregate care settings. There were 68 breakthrough cases in people aged 12 to 17.
During the last week unvaccinated Oregonians remained approximately four times more likely to be infected and much more likely to suffer serious effects.
To date, there have been 22,879 COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in Oregon. That amounts to 0.8% of the 2.71 million Oregonians who have completed a COVID-19 vaccination series.
Of this extremely small number of breakthrough cases, 4.5% have been hospitalized and 0.9% have died. The average age of the people who died was 81.
COVID Pediatric Dashboard Updated
OHA released its latest dashboard report of pediatric COVID-19 case data in Oregon this afternoon.
Here are some key findings reported by OHA:
- In addition to reporting the cumulative percent of cases that are pediatric, the dashboard now shows these data by week. People under age 18 were disproportionately represented in the cases with illness onset last week (9/12/2021 – 9/18/2021).
- Pediatric case rates are highest among people ages 12-17 at 283.2 cases per 100,000, followed closely by people ages 6-11 at 259.2 cases per 100,000.
- In addition to reporting cumulative case rates by race or ethnicity, the dashboard now shows these data by week. This applies to weeks with 10 or more cases by race or ethnicity. Weekly inequities across case rates have decreased, but continue to persist.
Latest OHSU Forecast Released
OHSU’s Dr. Peter Graven released the latest assessment and forecast this afternoon. The modeling shows a continued decline in cases and hospitalizations in the coming weeks. Here are key findings:
- The number of patients needing hospital beds continues to decline, at a level of 944 on Sept. 21. This remains above the highest levels experienced in previous surges.
- All hospital regions in Oregon are showing leveling off or declines in hospitalizations. Southern Oregon hospitals continue to experience nearly twice the number of COVID-19 patients per capita as other regions of the state.
- Continued slow increase in high-risk behaviors and observed policy fatigue. Mask wearing in Oregon returned to 84%.
- The current pediatric census level for COVID is low at 6 children under age 18 across Oregon. This is one of the lowest counts (adjusted for population size) in the country.
- The biggest factor associated, currently identified, with states that have low pediatric census are states with high vaccination rates (both total vaccination and pediatric vaccination show the same association and are associated with each other).
And the Deaths:
Here is information about all of the 114 deaths (down from 153) that OHA has reported for the week since September 16.
Friday, September 17
Oregon’s 3,548th COVID-19 related death is a 68-year-old woman from Benton County who tested positive on Aug. 28 and died on Sept. 5 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,549th COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old man from Benton County who tested positive on Aug. 22 and died on Aug. 31 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,550th COVID-19 related death is a 72-year-old woman from Baker County who tested positive on Sept. 8 and died on Sept. 7 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,551st COVID-19 related death is a 73-year-old man from Clackamas County who tested positive on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 16 at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,552nd COVID-19 related death is a 53-year-old man from Clackamas County who tested positive on Aug. 14 and died on Sept. 15 at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,553rd COVID-19 related death is a 69-year-old man from Jackson County who tested positive on Aug. 12 and died on Aug. 19 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,554th COVID-19 related death is a 55-year-old man from Jackson County who tested positive on Aug. 4 and died on Aug. 24 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,555th COVID-19 related death is a 72-year-old man from Harney County who tested positive on Sept. 7 and died on Sept. 16 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,556th COVID-19 related death is a 77-year-old woman from Harney County who tested positive on Aug. 18 and died on Aug. 28 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,557th COVID-19 related death is a 78-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Sept. 13 and died on Sept. 15 at Mercy Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,558th COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old man from Deschutes County who tested positive on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 15 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,559th COVID-19 related death is a 78-year-old woman from Jackson County who tested positive on Sept. 2 and died on Sept. 13 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,560th death is a 95-year-old woman from Jackson County who tested positive on Aug. 19 and died on Sept. 6 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,561st COVID-19 related death is a 43-year-old man from Lane County who tested positive on Aug. 29 and died on Sept. 16 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend.
Oregon’s 3,562nd COVID-19 related death is a 57-year-old woman from Lane County who tested positive on Aug. 18 and died on Sept. 15 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend.
Oregon’s 3,563rd COVID-19 related death is a 53-year-old woman from Polk County who tested positive on Aug. 26 and died on Sept. 14 at Salem Hospital. Presence of underlying conditions is being confirmed.
Oregon’s 3564th COVID-19 related death is a 65-year-old woman from Yamhill County who tested positive on Sept. 2 and died on Sept. 14 at Willamette Valley Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,565th COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old woman from Yamhill County who tested positive on Sept. 2 and died on Sept. 13 at Willamette Valley Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,566th COVID-19 related death is a 73-year-old man from Yamhill County who tested positive on Sept. 4 and died on Sept. 16 at Willamette Valley Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,567th COVID-19 related death is a 72-year-old woman from Umatilla County who tested positive on Aug. 18 and died on Sept. 16 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,568th COVID-19 related death is a 63-year-old man from Umatilla County who tested positive on Aug. 29 and died on Sept. 10 at CHI St. Anthony Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,569th COVID-19 related death is a 93-year-old woman from Multnomah County who tested positive on Sept. 11 and died on Sept. 14 at Adventist Health Portland.
Saturday to Monday, September 18-20
Oregon’s 3,570th COVID-19 related death is a 91-year-old man from Deschutes County who tested positive on Sept. 2 and died on Sept. 14 at St Charles Bend Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,571st COVID-19 related death is an 88-year-old man from Crook County who tested positive on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 17 at St. Charles Bend Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,572nd COVID-19 related death is a 91-year-old woman from Clackamas County who tested positive on Sept. 3 and died on Sept. 15 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,573rd COVID-19 related death is a 62-year-old man from Baker County who tested positive on Sept. 8 and died on Sept. 12 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,574th COVID-19 related death is a 77-year-old man from Deschutes County who tested positive on Aug. 27 and died on Sept. 18 at St. Charles Bend Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,575th COVID-19 related death is a 50-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Aug. 17 and died on Sept. 17 at Mercy Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,576th COVID-19 related death is a 46-year-old woman from Douglas County who tested positive on Aug. 30 and died on Sept. 17 at Mercy Medical Center. P
Oregon’s 3,577th COVID-19 related death is an 83-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Aug. 25 and died on Sept. 17 at Mercy Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,578th COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old woman from Lincoln County who tested positive on Sept. 2 and died on Sept. 4.
Oregon’s 3,579th COVID-19 related death is a 64-year-old man from Josephine County who first had symptoms on Sept. 3 and died on Sept. 12 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,580th COVID-19 related death is a 79-year-old man from Josephine County who tested positive on Sept. 4 and died on Sept. 15 at Providence Medford Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,581st COVID-19 related death is an 81-year-old man from Jackson County who tested positive on Sept. 5 and died on Sept. 16 at Providence Medford Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,582nd COVID-19 related death is a 57-year-old woman from Jackson County who tested positive on Sept. 1 and died on Sept. 17 at Providence Medford Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,583rd COVID-19 related death is a 73-year-old man from Harney County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 18 at Harney District Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,584th COVID-19 related death is a 58-year-old woman from Linn County who tested positive on Sept. 7 and died on Sept. 14 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,585th COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old man from Marion County who tested positive on Aug. 26 and died on Sept. 15 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,586th COVID-19 related death is a 45-year-old woman from Marion County who tested positive on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 16 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,587th COVID-19 related death is an 80-year-old man from Marion County who tested positive on Sept. 2 and died on Sept. 13 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,588th COVID-19 related death is a 68-year-old man from Marion County who tested positive on Aug. 24 and died on Sept. 14 at Silverton Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,589th COVID-19 related death is a 67-year-old woman from Marion County who tested positive on Aug. 26 and died on Sept. 13 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,590th COVID-19 related death is a 64-year-old man from Union County who tested positive on Sept. 10 and died on Sept. 17 at Grande Ronde Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,591st COVID-19 related death is a 94-year-old man from Washington County who tested positive on Aug. 23 and died on Aug. 28 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,592nd COVID-19 related death is a 68-year-old man from Washington County who tested positive on July 26 and died on July 31 at Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,593rd COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old woman from Washington County who tested positive on July 24 and died on Sept. 11 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,594th COVID-19 related death is a 64-year-old woman from Washington County who tested positive on May 30 and died on July 1 at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.
Tuesday, September 21
Oregon’s 3,595th COVID-19 related death is a 93-year-old man from Clackamas County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 16 at Kaiser Permanente Sunnyside Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,596th COVID-19 related death is an 85-year-old woman from Clackamas County who tested positive on Sept. 15 and died on Sept. 18 at Adventist Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,597th COVID-19 related death is a 63-year-old woman from Clackamas County who tested positive on Sept. 10 and died on Sept. 17 at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,598th COVID-19 related death is an 87-year-old man from Benton County who tested positive on Sept. 12 and died on Sept. 17 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,599th COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old man from Baker County who tested positive on Sept. 3 and died on Sept. 18 at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise.
Oregon’s 3,600th COVID-19 related death is an 83-year-old man from Baker County who tested positive on Sept. 3 and died on Sept. 16 at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise.
Oregon’s 3,601st COVID-19 related death is a 91-year-old woman from Clackamas County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 20 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,602nd COVID-19 related death is a 47-year-old man from Columbia County who tested positive on Sept. 10 and died on Sept. 14.
Oregon’s 3,603rd COVID-19 related death is an 80-year-old man from Columbia County who tested positive on Sept. 1 and died on Sept. 11 at PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview.
Oregon’s 3,604th COVID-19 related death is an 87-year-old woman from Crook County who tested positive on Sept. 3 and died on Sept. 17 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,605th COVID-19 related death is a 94-year-old woman from Deschutes County who tested positive on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 16 at St. Charles Bend Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,606th COVID-19 related death is a 78-year-old man from Harney County who tested positive on Sept. 12 and died on Sept. 18 at St. Charles Bend Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,607th COVID-19 related death is a 75-year-old woman from Harney County who tested positive on Sept. 8 and died on Sept. 20 at Harney District Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,608th COVID-19 related death is a 75-year-old man from Josephine County who tested positive on Sept. 13 and died on Sept. 20 at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,609th COVID-19 related death is a 68-year-old woman from Josephine County who tested positive on Sept. 11 and died on Sept. 19 at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,610th COVID-19 related death is a 75-year-old man from Jefferson County who tested positive on Sept. 8 and died on Sept. 18 at St. Charles Bend Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,611th COVID-19 related death is a 77-year-old man from Josephine County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 19 at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,612nd COVID-19 related death is a 74-year-old man from Josephine County who tested positive on Sept. 1 and died on Sept. 17 at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,613rd COVID-19 related death is an 80-year-old man from Klamath County who tested positive on Sept. 3 and died on Sept. 14 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,614th COVID-19 related death is an 88-year-old woman from Washington County who tested positive on Aug. 23 and died on Sept. 17 at OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,615th COVID-19 related death is an 81-year-old woman from Union County who tested positive on Sept. 13 and died on Sept. 20 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,616th COVID-19 related death is an 81-year-old man from Polk County who tested positive on Sept. 9 and died on Sept. 18 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,617th COVID-19 related death is a 79-year-old woman from Multnomah County who tested positive on Aug. 9 and died on Sept. 18 at Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,618th COVID-19 related death is a 95-year-old woman from Marion County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 18 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,619th COVID-19 related death is a 55-year-old woman from Marion County who tested positive on Sept. 9 and died on Sept. 15 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,620th COVID-19 related death is a 71-year-old man from Marion County who tested positive on Sept. 7 and died on Sept. 16 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,621st COVID-19 related death is a 79-year-old man from Linn County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 19 at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,622nd COVID-19 related death is a 92-year-old woman from Lane County who tested positive on Sept. 18 and died on Sept. 18 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,623rd COVID-19 related death is an 86-year-old man from Lane County who tested positive on Sept. 9 and died on Sept. 17 at his residence.
Wednesday, September 22
Oregon’s 3,624th COVID-19 related death is a 47-year-old woman from Coos County who tested positive on Aug. 23 and died on Sept. 20 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend.
Oregon’s 3,625th COVID-19 related death is a 60-year-old man from Coos County who tested positive on Aug. 19 and died on Sept. 18 at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,626th COVID-19 related death is a 65-year-old man from Coos County who tested positive on Aug. 11 and died on Sept. 17 at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,627th COVID-19 related death is a 20-year-old woman from Baker County who tested positive on Sept. 11 and died on Sept. 20 at St. Alphonsus Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,628th COVID-19 related death is an 84-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Sept. 5 and died on Sept. 15 at Mercy Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,629th COVID-19 related death is a 56-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Aug. 24 and died on Sept. 15 at Mercy Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,630th COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Aug. 19 and died on Sept. 21 at Mercy Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,631st COVID-19 related death is a 76-year-old woman from Deschutes County who tested positive on Sept. 5 and died on Sept. 18 at St. Charles Bend Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,632nd COVID-19 related death is a 54-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Sept. 16 and died on Sept. 17 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,633rd COVID-19 related death is a 66-year-old woman from Douglas County who tested positive on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 15 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,634th COVID-19 related death is a 64-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Sept. 15 and died on Sept. 16 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,635th COVID-19 related death is a 50-year-old man from Douglas County who tested positive on Sept. 16 and died on Sept. 13 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,636th COVID-19 related death is a 96-year-old woman from Josephine County who tested positive on Sept. 16 and died on Sept. 20 at her residence.
Oregon’s 3,637th COVID-19 related death is a 79-year-old man from Josephine County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 20 at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,638th COVID-19 related death is a 56-year-old man from Jackson County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 19 at Ashland Community Hospital.
Oregon’s 3.639th COVID-19 related death is a 47-year-old woman from Jackson County who tested positive on Sept. 11 and died on Sept. 14 at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,640th COVID-19 related death is an 89-year-old man from Jackson County who tested positive on Sept. 14 and died on Sept. 20 at Providence Medford Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,641st COVID-19 related death is an 80-year-old woman from Jackson County who tested positive on Sept. 9 and died on Sept. 17 at Asante Three Rivers Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,642nd COVID-19 related death is a 64-year-old woman from Jackson County who tested positive on Aug. 23 and died on Sept. 18 at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,643rd COVID-19 related death is a 54-year-old woman from Umatilla County who tested positive on Aug. 7 and died on Aug. 31 at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,644th COVID-19 related death is an 88-year-old man from Polk County who tested positive on Sept. 7 and died on Sept. 17 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,645th COVID-19 related death is a 35-year-old woman from Marion County who tested positive on Sept. 18 and died on Sept. 19 at Oregon Health and Science University Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,646th COVID-19 related death is a 43-year-old woman from Marion County who tested positive on Sept. 17 and died on Sept. 16.
Oregon’s 3,647th COVID-19 related death is a 50-year-old man from Lane County who tested positive on Sept. 4 and died on Sept. 18 at PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend.
Oregon’s 3,648th COVID-19 related death is a 66-year-old man from Lane County who tested positive on Sept. 1 and died on Sept. 20 at McKenzie Willamette Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,649th COVID-19 related death is a 68-year-old man from Lane County who tested positive on Aug. 22 and died on Sept. 18 at PeaceHealth Sacred Health Medical Center at Riverbend.
Thursday, September 23
Oregon’s 3,650th COVID-19 related death is a 58-year-old woman from Lane County who tested positive on Sept. 10 and died on Sept. 21 at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,651st COVID-19 related death is a 59-year-old woman from Lane County who tested positive on Sept. 7 and died on Sept. 21 at Mckenzie-Willamette Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,652nd COVID-19 related death is a 59-year-old woman from Lane County who tested positive on Sept. 6 and died on Sept. 21 at Mckenzie-Willamette Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,653rd COVID-19 related death is a 41-year-old man from Washington County who tested positive on Sept. 17 and died on Sept.17 at his residence.
Oregon’s 3,654th COVID-19 related death is a 70-year-old woman from Umatilla County who tested positive on Sept. 5 and died on Sept. 19 at St. Anthony Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,655th COVID-19 related death is a 93-year-old man from Marion County who tested positive on Sept. 10 and died on Sept. 21 at Salem Hospital.
Oregon’s 3,656th COVID-19 related death is a 79-year-old man from Lane County who tested positive on Sept. 15 and died on Sept. 20 at Mckenzie-Willamette Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,657th COVID-19 related death is an 81-year-old man from Klamath County who tested positive on Sept. 7 and died on Sept. 19 at Sky Lakes Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,658th COVID-19 related death is an 83-year-old man from Jackson County who tested positive on Sept. 8 and died on Sept. 20 at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,659th COVID-19 related death is a 63-year-old man from Jackson County who tested positive on Aug. 20 and died on Sept. 21 at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,660th COVID-19 related death is a 72-year-old man from Jackson County who tested positive on Aug. 6 and died on Sept. 10 at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center.
Oregon’s 3,661st COVID-19 related death is an 84-year-old woman from Clatsop County who tested positive on Sept. 11 and died on Sept. 18 at her residence.
Note from OHA: More information is known about Oregon’s 3,646th COVID-19 related death, a 43-year-old woman from Linn County who tested positive on Sept. 17 and died on Sept. 16. She was originally reported as a Marion County resident.
And here’s another breakdown of last week’s 114 deaths by county.
You’ll see that only 14 percent were from the Portland Tri-County area. Twice that number were from Jackson, Josephine, and Douglas Counties. Marion and Lane also sadly reported a high number of deaths last week.
Baker (5)
Benton (3)
Clackamas (8)
Clatsop (1)
Columbia (2)
Coos (3)
Crook (2)
Deschutes (5)
Douglas (11)
Harney (5)
Jackson (14)
Jefferson (1)
Josephine (8)
Klamath (2)
Lane (11)
Lincoln (1)
Linn (2)
Marion (11)
Multnomah (2)
Polk (3)
Umatilla (4)
Union (2)
Washington (6)
Yamhill (3)
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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: 503-281-0608
mail: 900 Court St NE, S-407, Salem, OR, 97301
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