Deadlines are on the horizon from state governors that have imposed restricting COVID mandates. Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced Thursday a statewide requirement that attendees at large events show proof of being vaccinated against COVID-19 or proof of a negative test taken in the 72 hours prior the event beginning November 15th.
Earlier in the month, California’s Governor Newsom announced the first K-12 vaccine mandate in the U.S., and Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s mandate that vaccination requirements for teachers, educators, support staff, and volunteers in K-12 schools be fully vaccinated and that health care workers will no longer have a testing alternative and be required to be fully vaccinated by this coming Monday, October 18th.
Vaccination rates for the state continue to lag across the state. In the past week the state sat at 75.9% vaccinated, and to date, now sits at 76.3%, an increase of just 1.1% in the past week. Oregon Health Authority and the Center for Disease Control assured individuals that the fully vaccinated are well protected from COVID, including the delta variant.
According to the latest data from the Oregon Health Authority, breakthrough case records began being kept some twelve weeks ago. In that same twelve week period, approximately 130,000 Oregonians tested positive for COVID-19. However, in that same twelve week period, there have been 30,687 vaccine breakthrough cases identified in Oregon alone, adding 2,612 breakthrough cases alone in the past week, and now totaling 22% off all new cases in the state.
Vaccine breakthrough cases are defined as instances in which an individual received a positive COVID-19 test result at least 14 days following the completion of any COVID-19 vaccine series.
As of Friday, October 15th, the state of Oregon had tested 7,256,343 individuals, an increase of 126,643 individuals and now over 3,563,097 more people than the states 4,289,440 population. 6,677,788 have tested negative for the novel COVID-19 virus 478,555 have tested positive, and there are 348,766 total cases in the state.
Individuals hospitalized rose by 368 hospitalizations statewide in the past week, and now stands at 18,758 in the entire state since the pandemic began. In the past week 179 deaths were recorded statewide, and Oregonians who have unfortunately succumbed to COVID-19 has now reached 4,161 individuals throughout the entire state since the pandemic began.
Curry County’s latest numbers as reported Friday, October 15th, by the Oregon Health Authority, now reports testing 22,717 individuals with 20,914 negative tests, 1,803 total positive COVID-19 tests, and the latest data from the Oregon Health Authority has recorded 1,781 total cases and 22 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Del Norte County Department of Health and Human Services reported adding 14 new cases in the past week now reaching 3,657 total confirmed cases reported by Public Health, with 32 active cases, 2 current hospitalizations and 40 deaths.
Coos County to the north, reported testing 81,377 individuals last week with 75,909 negative results, adding 153 new cases in the past week with now 4,896 total positive cases and 91 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Josephine County has seen significant increases in recent weeks and has reported testing 138,990 individuals with 126,269 negative results, 12,721 total positive test results with 9,233 total cases of COVID-19 and now 195 deaths.
Jackson County, which includes the Medford area, with a total population of 221,290, reports testing 376,553 individuals, 155,263 more people than the counties total population, with 343,409 negative test results, 33,144 positive results, and 22,632 total cases of COVID-19 with now 300 deaths as of Friday, October 15th.
