Oregon reports 28 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 7 new presumptive cases, 0 new deaths
PORTLAND, Ore. — The state’s death toll from COVID-19 is unchanged and remains at 147 as of 12:01 a.m. Saturday, the Oregon Health Authority reported today.
Oregon Health Authority reported 28 new confirmed cases and seven new presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Saturday, bringing the state total to 3,888. The new confirmed and presumptive cases reported today are in the following counties: Clackamas (2), Clatsop (1), Crook (3), Deschutes (2), Jackson (1), Jefferson (1), Lane (1), Marion (10), Multnomah (4), Umatilla (2), Wallowa (1), Washington (6), Yamhill (1).
Notes:
- The cutoff for data has changed to 12:01 a.m., which means the reporting period for this report was 16 hours. Subsequent reports will have the same data cutoff, so the reporting period will return to 24 hours.
Oregon Health Authority is now including a link to the Oregon COVID-19 Daily Update in the daily news release. The Daily Update is a detailed look at COVID-19 in Oregon, including testing data, hospital capacity, and cases broken down by demographic information such as age groups, gender, race and ethnicity.
Note: The COVID-19 weekly report will now be published on Wednesdays, rather than on Tuesdays, starting May 27.
To see more case and county level data, please visit the Oregon Health Authority website, which OHA updates once a day: www.healthoregon.org/
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As far as I know our county is still testing 1% of the people here which means we don’t know about the other 99%. This virus is unique as there are many asymptomatic carriers. Most of the cases in our county were community spread, meaning that the source of infection was in the community. As things open up with visitors from more infected counties and states, I have no doubt that there will be more infection here where we live. We have been very fortunate as both Yachats and Waldport showed 0 cases thus far. This will change with an influx of visitors. There are more important matters, such as the health of the people of our community that should come before other people making money from tourism.