PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – There are six new deaths related to COVID-19 in Oregon, which increases the death toll from the state to 1,930, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
OHA also reported 750 new confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Thursday, bringing the state to 140,783.
Vaccinations in Oregon
On Thursday, OHA reported that 19,010 new doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been added to the state immunization registry. Of this total, 12,292 doses were administered on Wednesday and 6,718 were administered previous days, but were entered in the vaccine register on Wednesday.
It may take a few days to finalize the total cumulative totals, as suppliers have 72 hours to report doses, and technical challenges have caused many suppliers to lag behind in their reporting. OHA has provided technical support to vaccination sites to improve the timeliness of their data entry into the state’s ALERT Immunization Information System (IIS).
Oregon has now administered a cumulative total of 359,370 first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines. To date, 606,725 doses of vaccine have been delivered to Oregon sites.
These data are provisional and subject to change. OHA’s dashboards contain regularly updated vaccination data, and Oregon’s dashboard was updated Thursday.
St Charles Health System reported a total of 15,782 vaccinations given early Thursday.
COVID-19 hospitalizations
The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Oregon is 291, which is 11 less than Wednesday. There are 72 COVID-19 patients in the intensive care unit (ICU beds), two less than on Wednesday.
The total number of patients in hospital beds may vary between check-in times. The numbers do not reflect admissions per day, nor the duration of the hospital. Staff restrictions are not captured in this data and may further limit bed capacity.
St. Charles Bend reported 19 COVID-19 patients at 4 a.m. Thursday, one of whom was in the ICU and in a ventilator.
More information on hospital capacity can be found here.
Matters and deaths
The new confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases reported on Thursday are in the following provinces: Benton (15), Clackamas (62), Clatsop (6), Columbia (4), Coos (26), Crook (2) , Deschutes (37)), Douglas (20), Harney (2), Hood River (5), Jackson (25), Jefferson (4), Josephine (22), Klamath (16), Lake (3), Lane ( 72), Lincoln (6), Linn (12), Malheur (8), Marion (90), Morrow (2), Multnomah (174), Polk (12), Tillamook (1), Umatilla (24), Union ( 3), Wasco (12), Washington (73) and Yamhill (12).
COMMENT: OHA no longer lists individual cases of COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon in its daily media statements. We share merged COVID-19 deaths on OHA’s public dashboards, which are updated daily.
Country statistics on cases and deaths are available on this dashboard:
https://public.tableau.com/profile/oregon.health.authority.covid.19#!/vizhome/OregonCOVID-19TestingandOutcomesbyCounty/OregonsCOVID-19TestingandOutcomesbyCounty
Below is a breakdown of the reported deaths Thursday by age category.
New deaths by age group
| <29 | 0 |
| 30-39 | 0 |
| 40-49 | 0 |
| 50-59 | 0 |
| 60-69 | 1 |
| 70-79 | 1 |
| 80+ | 4 |
| Total | 6 |
Due to unplanned downtime with Opera (Oregon’s COVID-19 case database), the processing of electronic laboratory reports is overdue. The backlog, which affects laboratory reports and the number of cases, will be processed over the next few days.
Learn more about COVID-19 vaccinations
For more information on the COVID-19 vaccine situation in Oregon, visit OHA’s Web site, which contains a breakdown of distribution and other useful information.