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Total COVID-19 cases as of Friday, Jan. 8:
Deschutes County cases: 4,412 (92 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 24 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 512 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 8 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 1,584 (3 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 20 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 122,847 (1,755 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 1,575 (7 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 35 (5 in ICU).
130
(Dec. 4)
120
108 new cases
(Jan. 1)
110
90 new cases
100
(Nov. 27)
7 ways to help limit its spread: 1. Wash hands often with soap and water for
at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid touching your face. 3. Avoid close contact with sick
people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public, stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth face
covering or mask. 6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into your
elbow. 7. Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
90
80
7-day
average
70
60
47 new cases
50
(Nov. 14)
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
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31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(July 16)
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
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What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus. Coronaviruses
are a group of viruses that can cause a range of symptoms. Some usually cause
mild illness. Some, like this one, can cause more severe symptoms and can be
fatal. Symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath.
28 new cases
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New COVID-19 cases per day
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
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BY BERNARD CONDON,
MATT SEDENSKY
AND CARLA K. JOHNSON
The Associated Press
The desperately awaited
vaccination drive against the
coronavirus in the U.S. is run-
ning into resistance from an
unlikely quarter: Surprising
numbers of health care work-
ers who have seen firsthand
the death and misery inflicted
by COVID-19 are refusing
shots.
It is happening in nursing
homes and, to a lesser degree,
in hospitals, with employees
expressing what experts say are
unfounded fears of side effects
from vaccines that were de-
veloped at record speed. More
than three weeks into the cam-
paign, some places are seeing
as much as 80% of the staff
holding back.
“I don’t think anyone wants
to be a guinea pig,” said Dr.
Stephen Noble, a 42-year-old
cardiothoracic surgeon in Port-
land, who is postponing get-
ting vaccinated. “At the end of
the day, as a man of science, I
just want to see what the data
show. And give me the full
data.”
Alarmed by the phenome-
non, some administrators have
dangled everything from free
breakfasts at Waffle House
to a raffle for a car to get em-
ployees to roll up their sleeves.
Jae C. Hong/AP file
A nurse puts on protective gear Thursday in a COVID-19 unit in California.
Some states have threatened to
let other people cut ahead of
health care workers in the line
for shots.
“It’s far too low. It’s alarm-
ingly low,” said Neil Pruitt,
CEO of PruittHealth, which
runs about 100 long-term care
homes in the South, where
fewer than 3 in 10 workers of-
fered the vaccine so far have
accepted it.
Many medical facilities from
Florida to Washington state
have boasted of near-universal
acceptance of the shots, and
workers have proudly plastered
pictures of themselves on so-
cial media receiving the vac-
cine. Elsewhere, though, the
drive has stumbled.
While the federal govern-
ment has released no data on
how many people offered the
vaccines have taken them,
glimpses of resistance have
emerged around the country.
The pushback comes amid
the most lethal phase in the
outbreak yet, with the death
toll at more than 350,000,
and it could hinder the gov-
ernment’s effort to vaccinate
somewhere between 70% and
85% of the U.S. population to
achieve “herd immunity.”
Administrators and public
health officials have expressed
hope that more health work-
ers will opt to be vaccinated as
they see their colleagues take
the shots without problems.
Oregon doctor Noble said
he will wait until April or May
to get the shots. He said it is
vital for public health authori-
ties not to overstate what they
know about the vaccines. That
is particularly important, he
said, for Black people like him
who are distrustful of gov-
ernment medical guidance
because of past failures and
abuses, such as the infamous
Tuskegee experiment.
Medical journals have pub-
lished extensive data on the
vaccines, and the Food and
Drug Administration has
made its analysis public. But
misinformation about the
shots has spread wildly online,
including falsehoods that they
cause fertility problems.
There have been no signs of
widespread severe side effects
from the vaccines, and scien-
tists say the drugs have been
rigorously tested on tens of
thousands and vetted by inde-
pendent experts.
States have begun turning
up the pressure. South Caroli-
na’s governor gave health care
workers until Jan. 15 to get a
shot or “move to the back of
the line.” Georgia’s top health
official has allowed some vac-
cines to be diverted to other
front-line workers, including
firefighters and police, out of
frustration with the slow up-
take.
“There’s vaccine avail-
able but it’s literally sitting in
freezers,” said Public Health
Commissioner Dr. Kathleen
Toomey. “That’s unacceptable.
We have lives to save.”
Oregon National Guard
Judge orders pretrial release
of accused eco-saboteur Dibee to support vaccinations
BY ANDREW SELSKY
The Associated Press
BY MAXINE BERNSTEIN
The Oregonian
A federal judge on Friday
ordered the pretrial release of
accused eco-saboteur Joseph
M. Dibee as soon as he tests
negative for COVID-19.
“It has become untenable
for him to review discovery
and in helping counsel pre-
pare for trial,” U.S. District
Judge Ann Aiken said. “I
think this is the most appro-
priate manner to move this
case forward.”
Dibee, 53, learned he had
tested positive for the corona-
virus after he was tested Dec.
21 in Multnomah County’s
Inverness Jail, at the urging of
his defense lawyer Matthew
Schindler. The lawyer had re-
ported to the court that Dibee
was ill and had lost his sense
of taste and smell. He began
suffering flu-like symptoms
just days after the jail had
moved him out of the medical
unit to another unit against
the judge’s direction.
Dibee had been in the
medical unit, recovering from
a broken jaw he had suffered
during an assault from an-
other inmate at the jail in
January 2020. He underwent
surgery but has not received
the necessary physical ther-
apy to repair his jaw, the judge
noted.
The judge said she was “re-
ally disturbed” by the medical
issues at the jail, considering
that she had received weekly
status reports that no one in
the jail had contracted coro-
FBI/file
Joseph Dibee, in an FBI file photo.
navirus, and learned only of
Dibee’s positive test when she
ordered he be tested after his
lawyer requested it. After that,
the jail reported a second in-
mate also had tested positive.
“I’m very concerned
whether I’ve been getting ac-
curate information about the
status of the health of inmates
at Inverness,” Aiken said.
This marks the second time
Aiken has ordered Dibee’s re-
lease pending trial. He was ar-
rested in August 2018 in Cuba,
a fugitive for 12 years accused
in a string of environmental
sabotage across the West.
On Dec. 18, 2019, a three-
judge panel of the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals
overturned Aiken’s release or-
der for Dibee, six days after
she had allowed for his pre-
trial release to live with his sis-
ter in Seattle. He was out for
less than a week when he sur-
rendered to federal authorities
in Seattle and returned to cus-
tody in Portland.
This time, Aiken ordered
Dibee to be released to his
sister’s home in Seattle and
quarantined there once he
tests negative for COVID-19.
He’ll be under GPS monitor-
ing and home detention with
special monitoring software
installed on his computer and
phone. After his quarantine,
he can live with and care for
his father, who is suffering
from a terminal illness, the
judge said.
SALEM — Oregon will be
stepping up its vaccinations
against COVID-19, including
by administering thousands of
doses at the state fairgrounds
in Salem this weekend with
the support of the National
Guard, Gov. Kate Brown said
Friday.
“The goal is to vaccinate
250 people per hour, vaccinat-
ing thousands of Oregonians,”
Brown announced during a
Zoom call with reporters.
Those eligible to receive the
vaccination are in the top pri-
ority category set by the Ore-
gon Health Authority, which
includes hospitals, health care
providers and residents at long-
term care facilities; emergency
medical service providers and
other first responders.
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Those who appear for the
vaccination “will be asked to
provide … a self attestation
that they qualify in the Phase
1a category,” said OHA Direc-
tor Patrick Allen. “This is part
of the process of simplifying 1a
and being able to get through
the category as quickly as we
can.”
On Friday, OHA recorded
7,994 doses of vaccine admin-
istered — including 578 sec-
ond doses — raising the state’s
total number of shots given to
74,914.
The agency also reported
Friday that COVID-19 claimed
seven more lives in Oregon,
raising the state’s death toll to
1,575.
There were also 1,755 new
cases, bringing the total to
122,847 in a state with a popu-
lation of around 4.2 million.
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