The Oregon Health Authority announced Tuesday that it has rescinded the state’s mandate requiring people to wear masks in crowded outdoor settings. Officials said the rule is no longer necessary.
In Del Norte County, even though transmission levels in Del Norte County have declined to Orange level or below for 4 consecutive weeks according to the Centers for Disease Control, the Del Norte County Department of Public Health issued an Order requiring all individuals to wear face coverings when indoors in workplaces and public settings, as well as outdoor crowded public spaces and events, with limited exemptions.
In Santa Cruz County, California, a sweeping indoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status, has been imposed for private settings, including homes for those gathering with people who don’t live in the same household. The guidelines also apply to businesses, with exceptions for eating and drinking, and in both the Del Norte County as well as the Santa Cruz County orders, schools and student athletes are required to comply going into the winter sports programs.
Vaccination rates across the state continue to lag and now sits at 72.2% of Oregonians fully vaccinated, growing only .2% in the past week. The Oregon Health Authority and the Center for Disease Control assured individuals that the fully vaccinated are well protected from COVID, including the delta variant.
Oregon has recorded 3.6 times more Breakthrough Cases than Delta Variant cases in the past eighteen weeks with now 43,398 Breakthrough Cases, and 11,926 Delta Variant cases recorded by the Oregon Health Authority in the past 18 weeks. In the past week alone Oregon added 2,141 Breakthrough Cases while recording only 868 new Delta Variant cases by comparison.
Oregon Health Authority data show breakthrough case records began being kept some eighteen weeks ago. In that same eighteen week period, approximately 179,367 Oregonians tested positive for COVID-19. However, in that same eighteen week period, there have been 43,398 vaccine breakthrough cases identified in Oregon alone, adding 2,141 new breakthrough cases in the past week, and continues to total 24% off all new cases in the state.
As of Friday, November 26th, the state of Oregon had tested 7,999,746 individuals, an increase of 81,159 individuals and now over 3,710,306 more people than the states 4,289,440 population. 7,471,621 have tested negative for the novel COVID-19 virus 528,125 have tested positive, and there are 387,485 total cases in the state.
Individuals hospitalized rose by 234 hospitalizations statewide in the past week, and now stands at 20,716 in the entire state since the pandemic began. In the past week 202 deaths were recorded statewide, and Oregonians who have unfortunately succumbed to COVID-19 has now reached 5,116 individuals throughout the entire state since the pandemic began.
Curry County’s latest numbers as reported Friday, November 26th, by the Oregon Health Authority, now reports testing 25,127 individuals with 23,180 negative tests, 1,932 total positive COVID-19 tests, and the latest data from the Oregon Health Authority has recorded 1,947 total cases and 36 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Del Norte County Department of Health and Human Services reported adding 30 new cases in the past week now reaching 3,821 total confirmed cases reported by Public Health, with 43 active cases, 0 current hospitalizations and 40 deaths.
Coos County to the north, reported testing 92,685 individuals last week with 86,510 negative results with now 5,573 total positive cases and 106 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Josephine County has seen significant increases in recent weeks and has reported testing 151,839 individuals with 138,167 negative results, 13,672 total positive test results with 10,057 total cases of COVID-19 and now 240 deaths.
Jackson County, which includes the Medford area, with a total population of 223,240, reports testing 415,294 individuals, 192,054 more people than the counties total population, with 379,424 negative test results, 35,870 positive results, and 24,672 total cases of COVID-19 with now 350 deaths as of Friday, November 26th.
