Oregon reports 1 more COVID-19 related death, 993 new cases
Four more cases than Wednesday; highest count in 3 months
PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) There is one new COVID-19 related death in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,467, the Oregon Health Authority reported Thursday.
OHA also reported 993 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. Thursday, bringing the state total to 178,110. That s four more cases than Wednesday s report, and once again the highest total since mid-January.
Vaccinations in Oregon OHA reported that 48,387 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added Thursday to the state immunization registry. Of this total, 28,535 doses were administered on Wednesday and 19,852 were administered on previous days but were entered into the vaccine registry on Wednesday.
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After bout with COVID, nursery worker encourages everyone to get vaccinated
For about two months in the summer, Maria I. Mota Garcia didn’t leave her Dayton home. Mota-Garcia, 53, along with her husband, daughter, son-in-law and three grandchildren, all caught COVID-19.
When Mota Garcia, who for 11 years has worked at a nursery in Dayton, had an opportunity to take the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine a few weeks ago, the choice was obvious.
“It’s meant so much to me. I don’t want to get sick again,” Mota Garcia said in Spanish. “Everyone in my family got the vaccine.”
In this March 31, 2021, file photo, a nurse fills a syringe with Johnson & Johnson s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine at the Vaxmobile, at the Uniondale Hempstead Senior Center, in Uniondale, N.Y. U.S. health regulators on Tuesday, April 13, is recommending a “pause” in using the vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots.
U.S. authorities said they are reviewing data involving six reported U.S. cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot in individuals after receiving the J&J vaccine.
The Oregon Health Authority on Tuesday morning asked the state’s vaccine providers to immediately stop administering the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.