State COVID Hospitalizations Decline – St Charles Rise While this week’s Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Weekly Report shows a second consecutive week of declining cases and hospitalizations, St. Charles Health Care is reporting 40 COVID-19 patients, nine of whom are in ICU, with six on ventilators. OHA reported 4,896 new daily cases of COVID-19 during the week of Monday, May 3 through Sunday, May 9. That represents a 12% decline from the previous week and marks the second consecutive week of lower weekly cases. New COVID-19 related hospitalizations also declined from 272 to 245. There were 31 reported COVID-19 related deaths, nearly doubling the previous week’s total.