Originally published on January 29, 2021 6:28 pm
Gov. Kate Brown on Friday backtracked on the state’s decision to shield some data on COVID-related deaths.
Throughout much of the pandemic, state officials have shared biographical information for each person who has died from COVID-19. The individualized information included a person’s age, county, location of death, when they tested positive for coronavirus and when they died.
Earlier this week, the Oregon Health Authority abruptly reversed course and said it would stop providing the demographic data in an individualized form but instead provide a more aggregate picture, such as listing ages of people who have died in a range rather than giving specifics. Initially, the governor defended her state agency’s decision. On Friday, however, she tweeted she had changed her mind and directed the agency to once again release individualized, specific, data.
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COVID-19 spikes fourfold among Washington’s Latinos and it’s reaching almost every corner of the population By Nina Shapiro, The Seattle Times
Published: January 24, 2021, 12:36pm
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People are praying for her husband all over the world, Lizbeth Garcia told the doctors. From American churches. Latin American churches. He’s a pastor, she wanted them to know, this man who lay in a hospital bed, felled by COVID-19 and with so many tubes sticking out of him that she found it hard to reach for his hand.
A pastor herself, she and Hector Garcia co-lead Iglesia Celebracion de Vida in Edgewood, near their Federal Way home. When he became ill in October, and airlifted to a Portland hospital because of a machine offering a last-ditch chance to save his life, word spread.
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