The Oregon Health Authority is expected to inform health care providers that the administration of booster doses for individuals 16 and older can begin after the Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup completed its review of the federal process.
The Workgroup provided its confirmation to the Governors of California, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington Thursday, December 9th, and has recommended expanding booster dose eligibility to 16 and 17 year olds at least six months after they have completed their primary vaccination series.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also authorized expanding booster shot eligibility for 16 and 17 year olds, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention affirmed that decision on Thursday.
Vaccination rates across the state now sit at 73.3% of Oregonians fully vaccinated, growing only .3% in the past week. The Oregon Health Authority and the Center for Disease Control assured individuals in July that the fully vaccinated are well protected from COVID, including the delta variant.
Oregon Health Authority data show breakthrough case records began being kept some twenty weeks ago. In that same twenty week period, approximately 185,279 Oregonians tested positive for COVID-19. However, in that same twenty week period, there have been 47,687 vaccine breakthrough cases identified in Oregon alone, adding 4,289 new breakthrough cases in the past week, and continues to total 26% off all new cases in the state.
Oregon has recorded 3.7 times more Breakthrough Cases than Delta Variant cases in the past twenty weeks with now 45,545 Breakthrough Cases, and 12,688 Delta Variant cases recorded by the Oregon Health Authority in the past twenty weeks. In the past week alone, Oregon added 4,289 Breakthrough Cases while recording only 370 new Delta Variant and 0 cases of the new Omicron Variant cases by comparison.
As of Friday, December 11th, the state of Oregon had tested 8,254,688 individuals, an increase of 112,597 individuals and now over 3,965,248 more people than the states 4,289,440 population. 7,711,787 have tested negative for the novel COVID-19 virus 542,901 have tested positive, and there are 399,361 total cases in the state.
Individuals hospitalized rose by 353 hospitalizations statewide in the past week, and now stands at 21,457 in the entire state since the pandemic began. In the past week 138 deaths were recorded statewide, and Oregonians who have unfortunately succumbed to COVID-19 has now reached 5,381 individuals throughout the entire state since the pandemic began.
Curry County’s latest numbers as reported Friday, December 3rd, by the Oregon Health Authority, now reports testing 26,147 individuals with 24,149 negative tests, 1,998 total positive COVID-19 tests, and the latest data from the Oregon Health Authority has recorded 1,947 total cases and 39 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Del Norte County Department of Health and Human Services reported adding 30 new cases in the past week, now reaching 3,915 total confirmed cases reported by Public Health, with 63 active cases, 2 current hospitalizations and 40 deaths.
Coos County to the north, reported testing 96,739 individuals last week with 90,187 negative results with now 6,552 total positive cases and 113 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
Josephine County has seen significant increases in recent weeks and has reported testing 157,153 individuals with 143,020 negative results, 14,133 total positive test results with 10,455 total cases of COVID-19 and now 254 deaths.
Jackson County, which includes the Medford area, with a total population of 223,240, reports testing 428,544 individuals, 205,304 more people than the counties total population, with 391,704 negative test results, 36,840 positive results, and 25,426 total cases of COVID-19 with now 366 deaths as of Friday, December 11th.
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