One month after Governor Kate Brown announced on October 6th her plan to deploy a huge influx of rapid COVID-19 tests from the federal government and that Oregon would be receiving 60,000 to 80,000 COVID-19 rapid tests per week until the end of the year, Oregons single day COVID-19 case record has more than doubled.
On the day Governor Brown announced the increase in testing numbers, COVID-19 cases averaged in the upper 200 to low 300 new cases per day. On October 6th, Oregon had tested 711,633 individuals and had identified 35,340 total COVID-19 cases in the state. On Friday, November 13th, Oregon had tested 940,403 individuals and had identified 54,937 total COVID-19 cases. The state of Oregon had averaged testing approximately 101,661 individuals per month since the state began testing, until October 6th. Since the announcement in the first week of October, until Friday, November 13th, the state of Oregon has tested 228,770 individuals, more than doubling the previous monthly average.
What hasn’t been noted is that more that twice the monthly average of people were tested in the past month. On October 13th, there were 37,780 total COVID-19 cases in Oregon with 2,741 hospitalizations, and 605 unfortunate deaths. That is an average of 5,397 total COVID-19 cases per month, 771 hospitalizations per month, and 86 deaths per month.
Oregon, which now has 54,937 COVID-19 cases, added 10,549 cases of COVID-19 in the past week, a 51% increase in confirmed cases. Just as the testing doubled, so did the confirmed cases. However, hospitalizations were down from the monthly average of 919 as only 887 have been hospitalized in the past month. In mid October 49 ICU beds were in use in the state with 18 individuals on ventilators, one month later 70 ICU beds are occupied and 30 patients are on ventilators with 740 ventilators available.
“With this increased testing capacity, we hope to be able to diagnose more people quickly so they can get the care they need. We want to identify more cases of COVID-19 so we can also isolate and quarantine people.” said Governor Brown.
Curry County’s latest report Friday, November, 13th, now reports testing 2,667 individuals with 2,586 negative tests, and now has 17 active confirmed cases of COVID-19. Curry County has 81 total cases and has recorded 2 deathsn.
Del Norte County Department of Health and Human Services reported testing 9,863 individuals with 9,643 negative results, 220 total confirmed cases, 10 new cases and 22 active cases reported to Public Health, with no current hospitalizations and now 3 deaths.
Humboldt County to the south of Del Norte County reports 658 total cases, adding 53 new CoVID-19 cases in the past week after testing 39,044 individuals with now 57 active cases, 591 recoveries, 39 hospitalizations, and 10 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic as of Friday, November, 13th.
Coos County to the north, reported testing 10,328 individuals with 10,086 negative tests, adding 38 new cases of COVID-19 in the past week with now 320 total positive cases and 1 death since the beginning of the pandemic.
Josephine County reports testing 16,671 individuals with 16,378 negative results, adding 38 new cases in the past week, now with 333 total positive cases of COVID-19 and 4 deaths.
Jackson County continues to see significant increases after reporting another 497 cases of COVID-19 this past week after testing 48,853 individuals with 46,307 negative test results, 2,694 total cases of COVID-19, and two new deaths in the past week totaling 10 deaths as of Friday, November, 13th.
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