COVID-19 is spreading across Oregon at a rapid rate, prompting some of the state's largest schools to close or shift to distance learning as they grapple with staffing shortages and sick students. And the news keeps coming: of skyrocketing diagnoses, climbing hospitalizations, scammers selling fake tests, hospitals getting new treatments and more.
The state's most recent weekly count, 47,272 cases, is nearly three times more than the record set last August. Here's the latest about school cancelations, the spread of the virus, and options for getting a COVID-19 test.