Oregon reports 41 more deaths from COVID-19, 1,346 new cases

89 new cases in Deschutes County, 19 in Crook County, 23 in Jefferson County

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – There are 41 new COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, bringing the state’s death toll to 1,708, the Oregon Health Authority reported on Wednesday.

The OHA also reported 1,346 new confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases as of midnight 01 Wednesday, bringing the state total to 129,109.

Note: Human error resulted in the loss of a small number of reports submitted through the online portal from 6:45 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The OHA does not know what types of reports were lost (lab reports, REALD reports, or MIS-C reports). Based on the recent reporting volume, we estimate that these results were likely negative or pending lab results and no more than 20 would have been received during the error period. We are reaching out to all parties who have recently submitted reports through the online portal to ask anyone who submitted between 6:45 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on January 13 to resubmit these results.

The OHA will continue to review and evaluate the process.

Vaccinations in Oregon

As of Wednesday, 14,722 new doses of COVID-19 vaccines were added to the state’s immunization registry. Of this total, 9,071 doses of vaccine were administered Tuesday and 5,651 were administered the previous days, but were entered in the vaccine registry Tuesday.

Oregon has now administered a cumulative total of 129,782 first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines. All vaccinations were administered by hospitals in Oregon, long-term care facilities, emergency medical services (EMS) agencies, emergency care facilities, and local public health authorities (LPHA ).

To date, 321,225 doses of the vaccine have been delivered to sites across Oregon.

These data are preliminary and subject to change.

The St. Charles Health System said it administered 4,898 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccinations as of early Wednesday.

OHA dashboards provide regularly updated immunization data.

COVID-19 hospitalizations

The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Oregon is 434, up 31 from Tuesday. There are 103 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit (ICU) beds, 10 more than Tuesday.

The total number of patients in hospital beds may fluctuate between reporting times. Figures do not reflect admissions per day or length of hospital stay. Staff limitations are not taken into account in this data and may further limit bed capacity.

St. Charles Bend reported 45 COVID-19 patients as of 4 a.m. Wednesday, nine of them in intensive care, six on ventilators.

For more information on the capacity of the hospital, click here.

Cases and deaths

NOTE: Details of the death are under review and will be published in an updated version of this press release.

The new confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases reported on Wednesday are in the following counties: Baker (16), Benton (29), Clackamas (105), Clatsop (10), Columbia (13), Coos (9), Crook ( 19), Deschutes (89), Douglas (25), Gilliam (1), Grant (8), Harney (2), Hood River (6), Jackson (58), Jefferson (23), Josephine (64), Klamath (32), Lac (2), Lane (98), Lincoln (3), Linn (50), Malheur (24), Marion (97), Morrow (9), Multnomah (307), Polk (28), Tillamook (11), Umatilla (52), Union (7), Wasco (13), Washington (110) and Yamhill (26).