Dec 16, 2020
Oregon has 54 COVID-19 related deaths on Tuesday which is a new daily record. The Oregon Health Authority reported 1,129 new cases.
Since the pandemic began, there have been 1,214 deaths and 96,092 confirmed cases. Today’s record-high death toll tragically reminds us that the pandemic is far from over despite the arrival of vaccines in Oregon, said Patrick Allen, director of the Oregon Health Authority. These Oregonians and the ones who passed before them were loved ones who will be dearly missed by their families, for whom we express our sincerest condolences.”
Oregonians can continue to work together to prevent more lives being lost to the virus by doing the following:
Dec 16, 2020
Oregon has 54 COVID-19 related deaths on Tuesday which is a new daily record. The Oregon Health Authority reported 1,129 new cases.
Since the pandemic began, there have been 1,214 deaths and 96,092 confirmed cases. Today’s record-high death toll tragically reminds us that the pandemic is far from over despite the arrival of vaccines in Oregon, said Patrick Allen, director of the Oregon Health Authority. These Oregonians and the ones who passed before them were loved ones who will be dearly missed by their families, for whom we express our sincerest condolences.”
Oregonians can continue to work together to prevent more lives being lost to the virus by doing the following:
Dec 16, 2020
Oregon has 54 COVID-19 related deaths on Tuesday which is a new daily record. The Oregon Health Authority reported 1,129 new cases.
Since the pandemic began, there have been 1,214 deaths and 96,092 confirmed cases. Today’s record-high death toll tragically reminds us that the pandemic is far from over despite the arrival of vaccines in Oregon, said Patrick Allen, director of the Oregon Health Authority. These Oregonians and the ones who passed before them were loved ones who will be dearly missed by their families, for whom we express our sincerest condolences.”
Oregonians can continue to work together to prevent more lives being lost to the virus by doing the following:
Oregon Health Authority reports record 54 COVID-19 deaths, citing death certificate lag
While 54 deaths is easily the most deaths reported in Oregon on a single day, health officials alluded to a lag in how those deaths are processed and reported.
Posted: Dec 15, 2020 5:30 PM
Updated: Dec 15, 2020 5:37 PM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
SALEM, Ore. The Oregon Health Authority marked 54 more deaths attributed to coronavirus on Tuesday, easily the most fatalities from the virus reported on a single day since the pandemic began and raising the state s death toll to 1,214. Today’s record-high death toll tragically reminds us that the pandemic is far from over despite the arrival of vaccines in Oregon, said Patrick Allen, director of the Oregon Health Authority. These Oregonians and the ones who passed before them were loved ones who will be dearly missed by their families, for whom we express our sincerest condolences.”
Oregon s health care workers first in the state to get COVID-19 vaccine News Staff and Associated Press
Oregon s health care workers first in the state to get COVID-19 vaccine
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon started administering the state’s first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine that it received this week, with more vaccine expected in the coming weeks.
Legacy Health and Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland and Saint Alphonsus Medical Center on the Oregon-Idaho border are among those that began vaccinating staff Wednesday. This is the moment we have all been waiting for, Governor Brown said on Wednesday. We kick off this historic vaccine campaign in Oregon with our health care workers, who have been our first line of defense against COVID-19. Today they received the first vaccinations in our state.