Oregon reports 41 more COVID-19 deaths, 1,346 new cases

89 new cases in deschutes County, 19 in Crook County, 23 in Jefferson County

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – There are 41 new deaths related to COVID-19 in Oregon, which increases the death toll from the state to 1,708, the Oregon health authority reported Wednesday.

OHA also reported 1,346 new confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday at 12:01 p.m., bringing the state total to 129,109.

Note: A human error led to the loss of a small number of reports submitted by the online portal on Wednesday from 06:45 to 08:30.

OHA does not know what types of reports have been lost (laboratory reports, REALD reports or MIS-C reports). Based on the recent reporting volume, we estimate that these results were likely negative or pending laboratory results and that no more than 20 would be received during the time of the error. We would like to ask all parties who have recently submitted reports via the online portal to re-submit the results to anyone who submitted on January 13 from 06:45 to 08:30.

OHA will continue to review and evaluate the process.

Vaccinations in Oregon

On Wednesday, 14,722 new doses of COVID-19 vaccines were added to the state immunization registry. Of this total, 9,071 doses of vaccine were administered on Tuesday and 5,651 were administered previous days, but were entered in the vaccine registry on Tuesday.

Oregon has now administered a cumulative total of 129,782 first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines. All vaccinations were administered by Oregon hospitals, long-term care agencies, emergency medical services agencies (EMS), emergency care facilities, and local public health authorities (LPHAs).

To date, 321,225 doses of vaccine have been delivered to sites in Oregon.

These data are provisional and subject to change.

The St. Charles’ healthcare system reportedly gave 4,898 vaccinations to Pfizer-BioNTech early Wednesday.

OHA’s dashboards contain regularly updated vaccination data.

COVID-19 hospitalizations

The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Oregon is 434, which is 31 more than Tuesday. There are 103 patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), which is 10 more than on Tuesday.

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 45 COVID-19 patients at 4 a.m. Wednesday, nine of whom were in the ICU, six of whom were on ventilators.

More information on hospital capacity can be found here.

Matters and deaths

COMMENT: Death details are being reviewed and will be posted in an updated version of this press release.

The new confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases reported on Wednesday are in the following provinces: Baker (16), Benton (29), Clackamas (105), Clatsop (10), Columbia (13), Coos (9) , Crook (19)), Deschutes (89), Douglas (25), Gilliam (1), Grant (8), Harney (2), Hood River (6), Jackson (58), Jefferson (23), Josephine (23). 64), Klamath (32), Lake (2), Lane (98), Lincoln (3), Linn (50), Malheur (24), Marion (97), Morrow (9), Multnomah (307), Polk ( 28), Tillamook (11), Umatilla (52), Union (7), Wasco (13), Washington (110) and Yamhill (26).