View Comments Oregon health officials have linked 13 more COVID-19 cases to People’s Church in Salem, bringing the total to 87 cases over the past five weeks and making it the state’s largest workplace outbreak this year. The additional cases were reported three days after Pastor Scott Erickson vowed to never stop holding in-person services. “We have been open for the last 68 years and I don’t think it’s appropriate to close down now,” Erickson said during one of three in-person Mother’s Day services Sunday. The services, which were broadcast live, showed children standing shoulder-to-shoulder singing, without masks. Adults, too, sung maskless.