Oregon reports an additional 8 COVID-19 deaths and 976 new cases

Portland, Oregon (KTVZ)-There were eight new COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, increasing the state’s death to 1,938, the Oregon Department of Health reported Friday.

OHA reported 976 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 am today, bringing the total to 141,729 in the state.

caution: Records of today’s media briefings are available Here And slides are available Here..

Vaccination in Oregon

On Friday, OHA reported that 23,004 COVID-19 vaccinations had been added to the state’s vaccination registry. Of this total, 15,813 doses were given on Thursday and 7,191 were given the day before, but were enrolled in the vaccine registry on Thursday.

Cumulative daily totals can take several days to finalize, as providers have 72 hours to report the dose administered and many providers are behind in reporting due to technical challenges. OHA has provided technical support to vaccination sites to improve the timeliness of data entry into the state’s ALERT Vaccination Information System (IIS).

Oregon currently has a cumulative total of 382,374 first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccine. To date, 614,525 vaccines have been delivered to sites throughout Oregon.

These data are tentative and subject to change.

OHA Dashboard The Oregon dashboard was updated on Friday, providing vaccination data that is updated on a regular basis.

The St. Charles Health System reported 18,289 COVID-19 vaccinations as of early Friday.

OHA Announces New COVID 19 Forecast

OHA released the latest COVID-19 model on Friday. This shows a decrease in the number of cases every day. The new report estimates that as of January 13, the state-wide reproduction rate was 0.81.

According to the latest predictions, continuing the current course of wearing masks, keeping physical distance, and limiting meetings reduced the average number of cases of COVID-19 per day to 420, with COVID-19 Related hospitalizations are reduced by 13 per day. Day.

With a 30% increase in infection, by mid-February there will be approximately 720 cases per day, 24 new hospitalizations per day, and 240 cases per 100,000.

The new modeling does not take into account the presence of a UK variant of COVID-19 in Oregon.

The report shows that two-thirds of the Oregon people surveyed are more likely to get the COVID-19 vaccine when it’s their turn.

COVID-19 hospitalized

The number of patients admitted to COVID-19 throughout Oregon is 288, three fewer than Thursday. There are 68 COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) bed, four less than Thursday.

The total number of patients in bed can fluctuate during reporting times. This number does not reflect the number of hospital stays or length of stay per day. This data does not include personnel limits and may further limit bed capacity.

St. Charles Bend reported 18 COVID-19 patients as of 4 am on Friday, one of whom was in the ICU and ventilator.

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Incident and death

Newly confirmed estimated COVID-19 cases reported on Friday were Baker (2), Benton (27), Clackamas (97), Clatsop (5), Colombia (10), Couse (16), Crook (5). ), Curry (2), Deschutz (43), Douglas (10), Harney (2), Hood River (5), Jackson (125), Jefferson (16), Josephine (20), Clackamas (14), Lake ( 1), Lane (61), Lincoln (11), Lynn (26), Marul (10), Marion (82), Morrow (5), Multnomah (143), Pork (27), Sherman (1), Tillamook (1) 3), Umatilla (33), Union (5), Wasco (10), Washington (135), Wheeler (2), Yamhill (22).

Share aggregated COVID-19 related deaths OHA Public Dashboard, Updated daily. The breakdown of deaths by age reported today is as follows:

New deaths by age group

Server maintenance

OHA schedules time to perform server and file migration maintenance on a data management system called the Oregon Pandemic Emergency Response Application (OPERA). OPERA acts as a state database of COVID-19 cases.

OPERA will be down from 10am to 10pm on Saturday, January 30th. Due to scheduled work, the OHA Health Information Center will not report information on COVID-19 cases and deaths on Sunday. Test results reported on Saturday will not be processed until Sunday, which may increase the total number of cases reported on Monday.

OHA’s daily media release will return on Monday, February 1st.

Details of COVID-19 vaccination

For more information on the status of the COVID-19 vaccine in Oregon, Web page, Distribution and other useful information breakdown.