Gov. Brown advises OHA to release more details on deaths weekly
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – There are 19 new deaths related to COVID-19 in Oregon, including two in Deschutes County, which increases the death toll from the state to 1,957, the Oregon Health Authority reported Saturday.
OHA also reported 707 new confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 as of 00:01 Saturday, bringing the state’s total to 142,416 cases.
After criticism arose over OHA’s decision to stop releasing daily detailed information on the deaths of COVID-19, Gov. Kate Brown instructed the agency to continue it weekly.
In a pandemic, Oregon residents must have access to timely information to keep themselves and their families safe. I directed @OHAOregon to disclose weekly all data on COVID-19 deaths, including the date the individual tested positive, their age, location and underlying health conditions.
– Governor Kate Brown (@OregonGovBrown) 29 January 2021
Vaccinations in Oregon
On Saturday, OHA reported that 25,500 new doses of COVID-19 vaccines had been added to the state immunization registry. Of this total, 19,867 doses were administered on Friday and 5,633 on previous days, but were entered in the vaccine registry on Friday.
It can take a few days to complete the total daily 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 407,869 first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines. To date, 665,325 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 Saturday.
COVID-19 hospitalizations
The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Oregon is 280, which is eight less than Friday. There are 67 COVID-19 patients in intensive care beds (ICU), which is less than on Friday.
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.
More information on hospital capacity can be found here.
Matters and deaths
The new confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases reported on Saturday are in the following provinces: Benton (7), Clackamas (64), Columbia (14), Coos (15), Crook (7), Curry (1) , Deschutes (26)), Douglas (8), Hood River (6), Jackson (42), Jefferson (8), Josephine (30), Klamath (22), Lake (1), Lane (62), Lincoln ( 5), Linn (18), Malheur (9), Marion (63), Morrow (7), Multnomah (122), Polk (25), Tillamook (1), Umatilla (36), Union (5), Wasco ( 9), Washington (82), and Yamhill (12).
New deaths by age group
| <29 | 0 |
| 30-39 | 0 |
| 40-49 | 0 |
| 50-59 | 0 |
| 60-69 | 3 |
| 70-79 | 3 |
| 80+ | 13 |
| total | 19 |
| County | Incidents1 | Total deaths2 |
| Baker | 589 | 5 |
| Looking forward to | 1899 | 14 |
| Clackamas | 12469 | 145 |
| Clatsop | 732 | 5 |
| Columbia | 1116 | 19 |
| Coos | 1086 | 16 |
| Thief | 689 | 15 |
| Curry | 330 | 5 |
| Delay | 5403 | 45 |
| Douglas | 1850 | 48 |
| Gilliam | 53 | 1 |
| Award | 217 | 1 |
| Harney | 194 | 6 |
| Hood river | 1012 | 24 |
| Jackson | 7456 | 100 |
| Jefferson | 1774 | 25 |
| Josephine | 1954 | 36 |
| Klamath | 2634 | 52 |
| More | 268 | 6 |
| Lane | 9091 | 113 |
| Lincoln | 1066 | 18 |
| Linn | 3305 | 50 |
| Malheur | 3259 | 56 |
| Marion | 17181 | 259 |
| Tomorrow | 986 | 11 |
| Multnomah | 29920 | 474 |
| Polk | 2684 | 41 |
| Sherman | 49 | 0 |
| Tillamook | 378 | 2 |
| Umatilla | 7150 | 74 |
| Union | 1173 | 18 |
| Wallowa | 100 | 3 |
| Wasco | 1159 | 23 |
| Washington | 19769 | 191 |
| Wheeler | 22 | 1 |
| Yamhill | 3399 | 55 |
| Large total | 142,416 | 1 957 |
1These include cases confirmed by diagnostic testing and suspected cases. Suspected cases are those without a positive diagnostic test that showed COVID-19-like symptoms and had close contact with a confirmed case. Country of residence for business may change as new information becomes available. If changes occur, we will update our numbers accordingly.
2Consult our press releases for more information on individuals who died of COVID-19 in Oregon
ELRs (electronic laboratory reports) receive 1/29
| County | Negative ELRs | Positive ELRs | Total ELRs | Percentive positivity |
| Baker | 173 | 5 | 178 | 2.8% |
| Looking forward to | 571 | 10 | 581 | 1.7% |
| Clackamas | 1462 | 75 | 1537 | 4.9% |
| Clatsop | 189 | 3 | 192 | 1.6% |
| Columbia | 174 | 11 | 185 | 5.9% |
| Coos | 280 | 21 | 301 | 7.0% |
| Thief | 75 | 5 | 80 | 6.3% |
| Curry | 30 | 0 | 30 | 0.0% |
| Delay | 602 | 18 | 620 | 2.9% |
| Douglas | 228 | 4 | 232 | 1.7% |
| Gilliam | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0.0% |
| Award | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0.0% |
| Harney | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0.0% |
| Hood river | 112 | 4 | 116 | 3.4% |
| Jackson | 856 | 70 | 926 | 7.6% |
| Jefferson | 95 | 7 | 102 | 6.9% |
| Josephine | 391 | 27 | 418 | 6.5% |
| Klamath | 280 | 14 | 294 | 4.8% |
| More | 13 | 1 | 14 | 7.1% |
| Lane | 2035 | 62 | 2097 | 3.0% |
| Lincoln | 73 | 9 | 82 | 11.0% |
| Linn | 730 | 30 | 760 | 3.9% |
| Malheur | 66 | 7 | 73 | 9.6% |
| Marion | 1408 | 111 | 1519 | 7.3% |
| Tomorrow | 67 | 11 | 78 | 14.1% |
| Multnomah | 4081 | 149 | 4230 | 3.5% |
| Polk | 233 | 13 | 246 | 5.3% |
| Sherman | 2 | 1 | 3 | 33.3% |
| Tillamook | 36 | 2 | 38 | 5.3% |
| Umatilla | 191 | 32 | 223 | 14.3% |
| Union | 27 | 1 | 28 | 3.6% |
| Wallowa | 16 | 0 | 16 | 0.0% |
| Wasco | 131 | 7 | 138 | 5.1% |
| Washington | 2152 | 113 | 2265 | 5.0% |
| Wheeler | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0.0% |
| Yamhill | 675 | 21 | 696 | 3.0% |
| Statewide | 17477 | 844 | 18321 | 4.6% |
Total ELRs received
| County | Negative ELRs | Positive ELRs | Total ELRs | Percentive positivity |
| Baker | 7017 | 1617 | 8634 | 18.7% |
| Looking forward to | 91017 | 2868 | 93885 | 3.1% |
| Clackamas | 309933 | 17589 | 327522 | 5.4% |
| Clatsop | 24182 | 1202 | 25384 | 4.7% |
| Columbia | 29148 | 1426 | 30574 | 4.7% |
| Coos | 26710 | 1083 | 27793 | 3.9% |
| Thief | 10837 | 920 | 11757 | 7.8% |
| Curry | 7035 | 257 | 7292 | 3.5% |
| Delay | 116176 | 7113 | 123289 | 5.8% |
| Douglas | 45249 | 1616 | 46865 | 3.4% |
| Gilliam | 765 | 28 | 793 | 3.5% |
| Award | 3115 | 172 | 3287 | 5.2% |
| Harney | 2325 | 180 | 2505 | 7.2% |
| Hood river | 22859 | 1267 | 24126 | 5.3% |
| Jackson | 145484 | 9372 | 154856 | 6.1% |
| Jefferson | 13338 | 1532 | 14870 | 10.3% |
| Josephine | 38477 | 1872 | 40349 | 4.6% |
| Klamath | 34139 | 2669 | 36808 | 7.3% |
| More | 2149 | 283 | 2432 | 11.6% |
| Lane | 295252 | 10017 | 305269 | 3.3% |
| Lincoln | 31792 | 2061 | 33853 | 6.1% |
| Linn | 92945 | 6107 | 99052 | 6.2% |
| Malheur | 16173 | 4592 | 20765 | 22.1% |
| Marion | 234824 | 24260 | 259084 | 9.4% |
| Tomorrow | 5018 | 1140 | 6158 | 18.5% |
| Multnomah | 710319 | 41721 | 752040 | 5.5% |
| Polk | 47782 | 3349 | 51131 | 6.5% |
| Sherman | 1003 | 44 | 1047 | 4.2% |
| Tillamook | 10114 | 342 | 10456 | 3.3% |
| Umatilla | 45727 | 7370 | 53097 | 13.9% |
| Union | 8974 | 919 | 9893 | 9.3% |
| Wallowa | 1813 | 59 | 1872 | 3.2% |
| Wasco | 23569 | 1224 | 24793 | 4.9% |
| Washington | 446693 | 27784 | 474477 | 5.9% |
| Wheeler | 298 | 20 | 318 | 6.3% |
| Yamhill | 90064 | 4681 | 94745 | 4.9% |
| Statewide | 2992315 | 188756 | 3181071 | 5.9% |
Server maintenance
OHA has scheduled time for the maintenance of server and file migration on its data management system, known as the Oregon Pandemic Emergency Response Application (OPERA). OPERA serves as the state database for COVID-19 cases.
OPERA will be today, Saturday 30 January from 10:00 to 22:00. The work being done means OHA’s health information center will not report information on COVID-19 cases and deaths on Sunday. We may see an increase in the total number of cases reported on Monday, as laboratory results reported on Saturday will only be processed until Sunday.
OHA’s daily media releases will return on Monday, February 1st.
In addition to OPERA, the Oregon COVID-19 Reporting Portal was down 10–11 hours Saturday to accommodate server maintenance. Suppliers could not submit test results in the portal during that time.
Learn more about COVID-19 vaccinations
For more information on the COVID-19 vaccine situation in Oregon, visit our Web site, which contains an outline of distribution and other helpful information.