Unique partnership will foster collaboration between UChicago, Army medical personnel
The University of Chicago Medicine will become the latest premier trauma training site for U.S. Army physicians, nurses and medics ahead of their deployments in a unique partnership that seeks to share knowledge and experience.
Through the Army Medicine Department (AMEDD) Military-Civilian Trauma Team Training (AMCT3) program, Army personnel serving on Forward Resuscitative Surgical Teams (FRSTs) will train at UChicago Medicine’s South Side trauma center. Together with their civilian counterparts, the experienced teams will provide critical care and trauma treatments to patients at the academic medical center located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.
We ll update this story throughout the day with the latest news about coronavirus and its effects in Oregon on Wednesday, April 14.
COVID-19 variants exploding in Oregon
Reports of COVID-19 variants of concern have exploded in Oregon.
On Wednesday, the state reported eight cases of the B.1.351 variant, first identified in South Africa. It previously was unreported in Oregon.
The state reported four cases of the P.1 variant, first identified in Brazil. That’s up from one case last week.
It reported 69 cases of the B.1.1.7 variant, first reported in the U.K., up from 22 last week.
And it reported 598 combined cases of the two California variants (B.1.427 and B.1.429), up from 271 last week.
Updated: 5:21 PM PDT April 14, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) reported a total of 816 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 in its daily update on Wednesday. It also reported an additional three deaths.
Wednesday’s numbers bring the total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic to 172,206 and the death toll moved to 2,449. This is the highest number of positive cases that Oregon has seen since Feb. 5 when 846 cases were reported.
OHA notes in its report that this is the third consecutive week that the number of cases has surged, hospitalizations have been up and there have been more deaths than the week prior.
Apr 15, 2021
The Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Weekly Report, released today, shows a third consecutive week of surging daily cases, higher hospitalizations and higher deaths than the previous week.
OHA reported 3,722 new daily cases of COVID-19 during the week of Monday, April 5 through Sunday, April 11. That represents a 26% increase from the previous week.
New COVID-19 related hospitalizations rose to 156, up from 150 last week.
There were 47 reported COVID-19 related deaths, which is the highest weekly total in five weeks.
There were 103,928 tests for COVID-19 for the week of April 4 through April 10. The percentage of positive tests was 4.4%.
People 70 years of age and older have accounted for 40% of COVID-19 related hospitalizations and 76% of COVID-19 related deaths.
Coronavirus in Oregon: 3 deaths, 816 new cases most in two months
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The Oregon Health Authority on Wednesday reported three new COVID-19 deaths and 816 coronavirus cases, the highest daily total in more than two months.
The spike came as Oregon recorded a 6.1% daily test positivity rate, indicating increased spread and the need to test more people to keep up with infections.
Cases have been steadily rising and have more than doubled since March 21, now averaging 583 a day over the past week. Active hospitalizations have also roughly doubled over that span, hitting 200 Wednesday.
Gov. Kate Brown last week announced she would not prohibit indoor dining and drinking in the hardest hit counties unless hospitalizations reach 300 statewide, backing away from earlier benchmarks for closures. Officials have said they’re in a race to get more people vaccinated before more contagious variants spread widely.