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“Really throughout the pandemic,
there has been an undercount,” said
Jeanne. When the only people report-
ing COVID infections are hospitals,
he said it’s difficult to get an accurate
number.
“What’s changed is that we have a
significant number of people who are
testing at home, and if they take a test
that indicates a negative result, they
often just throw it out - we have no way
of tracking those, so we try to account
for that,” said Jeanne. “Our methodol-
ogy - OHSU’s methodology - incorpo-
rates mask wearing when we’re making
our estimates. The lifting of the man-
date for transportation just happened,”
he said in reference to available data.
The OHA officials assured report-
ers they had confidence in Oregon’s
ability to avoid the worst of the BA.2
variants, and recommended continued
mask-wearing for people at high risk of
infection.
“We now have 83% of Oregonians
who have received at least one course
of the vaccine,” said Jeanne. “The vac-
cines are designed to keep people out
of the hospital.”
“The vaccine is still offering signif-
icant protection,” added Cieslak. “But
I think you can take it as a given that
there is a lot of COVID out there.”
Oregon officials strive to rebuild trust as
1 in 5 voters don't believe 2020 results
BY JULIA SHUMWAY
Of the Oregon Capital Chronicle
About one in five Oregon voters,
including about half of Republicans,
believe voter fraud changed the results
of the 2020 election.
That’s one result of a February sur-
vey from the Oregon Values and Beliefs
Center, a nonpartisan public opinion
research organization, which also found
that Oregonians are sharply divided over
how to describe an attack on the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
While a majority of Democrats
describe the incident as an “attempted
coup or insurrection,” a plurality of
Republicans called it a “riot out of con-
trol” and voters unaffiliated with either
party were split between those options.
Nearly a quarter of Republicans
endorsed the false claim that the violence
was perpetrated by political opponents
of former President Donald Trump, and
16% of Republicans and 10% of other vot-
ers claimed it was a reasonable protest.
Respondents were similarly divided
along partisan lines when it came to
questions about fraud in the 2020 presi-
dential election. About 86% of Democrats
surveyed in Oregon agreed that there
was virtually no fraud or very little fraud
with no impact on the results, and a
slim majority of independents and other
voters felt the same way. Less than a
A stack of counted and signed ballot envelopes at the Marion County Elections Of-
fice.
Photo By Amanda Loman of Salem Reporter.
third of Republicans agreed with those
statements.
Instead, 49% of Republicans said major
fraudulent voting changed the outcome
of the election. These survey results
resemble research that Reed College
conducted at the behest of the Oregon
Secretary of State’s Office in 2020, which
found a majority of Republican vot-
ers believed illegal voting occurred in
Oregon and throughout the country.
Secretary of State Shemia Fagan told
the Capital Chronicle the results of both
surveys showed that she has a lot of work
to do to rebuild trust with Oregonians.
“Oregon's elections are safe, secure
and accessible,” she said. “It's not for any
actual failing of the election system that
trust has been eroded. It's unfortunate
that it's really false information about our
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