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to decline.
“But, COVID-19 re-
mains a serious threat to
unvaccinated individuals
and communities with
low vaccination rates. If
you have been waiting to
get vaccinated, go get your
shot today. It’s never been
easier to get vaccinated,
and you may just win $1
million through the Take
Your Shot, Oregon cam-
paign.”
On May 11, Governor
Brown announced that
counties that vaccinate
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which reaches moderate
risk of community spread
of COVID-19.
“The science is clear:
vaccines are very effec-
tive in keeping people safe
from COVID-19, and they
are the key to returning
to normal life and lift-
ing health and safety re-
strictions statewide,” said
Brown. “Thanks to all the
Oregonians who have been
vaccinated so far, Oregon’s
case rates have continued
at least 65% of their adult
residents with at least one
dose and submit documen-
tation on how they will
close equity gaps in their
vaccination efforts are eli-
gible to move to the Lower
Risk level.
As of Tuesday, a total of
2,863 prime doses need to
be administered in Lane
County to achieve 65 per-
cent Lane County Public
Health reported.
A county vaccination
data dashboard is avail-
able on OHA’s website at
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People should note that
the dashboard displays
state vaccine allocations
only, and does not track
federally administered vac-
cine doses.
While additional coun-
ties submitted equity plans
this week, none of those
counties achieved the 65%
threshold needed to move
to Lower Risk this week.
As case rates continue to
decline, county risk level
changes will be announced
every week. Counties can
move to lower risk levels
based either on vaccination
rates and the submission of
an equity plan, or declin-
ing case rates and positiv-
ity rates. The next risk level
changes will be announced
on Tuesday, June 8, to take
effect on Friday, June 11.
Counties facing moves
back up to higher risk levels
this week are in a warning
week only, giving county
health partners an addi-
tional week to focus efforts
on driving case numbers
back down before addition-
al health and safety restric-
tions are renewed.
When Oregon achieves
a first dose 70% statewide
vaccination rate for resi-
dents 18 or older, Oregon
will lift all risk level health
and safety restrictions.
Some restrictions based on
CDC guidance for use of
masks and physical distanc-
ing may remain in place.
[Note: Previous announce-
ments had based the 70%
vaccination metric on resi-
dents 16 or older, however,
in order to align state data
with CDC data, the Oregon
Health Authority is track-
ing adult vaccination rates
for residents 18 and older.]
Data regarding Lane
County testing, patient
status, case ZIP codes and
more is available at www.
LaneCountyOR.gov/local
data.
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of experience in running
polls like this one. They
will continue the poll until
they get a total of 300 re-
sponses. If someone does
not answer their phone, a
message will be left includ-
ing a number that they can
call and participate in the
poll if they would like to.
The caller ID should in-
dicate Western Lane Am-
bulance or Siuslaw Valley
Fire.”
Currently, both districts
are in the process of up-
dating their respective
strategic plans. For Schick,
this is another reason for
taking the poll and inte-
grating the thoughts of the
respondents into the final
decisions as to which op-
tion is best suited for Flor-
ence area residents, first
responders and the city.
“There have been many
discussions by the boards
and with our employees
and volunteers on if we
should merge operations
and how to do it. The one
bit of information that
we are missing is how the
public feels about a po-
tential merger,” Schick
said. “We aren’t even sure
if people know that there
are two separate districts
providing fire suppression
and EMS.”
Data gathered from the
poll will be made available
during the strategic plan-
ning processes of the two
district.
“The community’s par-
ticipation is very import-
ant so these two emer-
gency service districts
can better understand the
community’s
opinions
and point of view on fire
and ambulance services,”
Schick said.
There are at least three
possible outcomes that
could come about as a re-
sult of the information
gathered, including a con-
tinuation of the merger,
a return to separate op-
erations and a possible
third party, either private
or contracted, to handle
all emergency calls in this
area.
For more information,
visit www.svfr.com and
westernlaneambulance.
com.
Fire and EMS Chief
Michael Schick is coordi-
nating the numerous ele-
ments of the merger and
has responded to concerns
by hiring a professional
polling firm to elicit the
opinions of residents re-
garding the merger.
The poll will start Mon-
day, June 7, with calls made
to random phone numbers
divided by precincts.
According to Schick, the
poll will add more public
input to the decision-mak-
ing process and assist with
the creation of an updated
strategic plan.
“The idea of a public
poll first came up when we
established a committee
made up of directors from
Western Lane Ambulance
District and Siuslaw Valley
Fire and Rescue to look at
what it will take to merge
the operations of the two
Districts,” Schick said. “We
are using a polling com-
pany and they have a lot
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