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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.
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108 new cases
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90 new cases
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(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.
Jefferson County cases: 1,627 (19 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 23 (2 new deaths)
Oregon cases: 127,780 (1,203 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 1,667 (54 new deaths)
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129 new cases
Total COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday, Jan. 12:
Deschutes County cases: 4,635 (56 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 31 (4 new deaths)
Crook County cases: 550 (19 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 8 (zero new deaths)
7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday
and holidays
SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
90
80
7-day
average
70
60
47 new cases
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(Nov. 14)
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BY MATTHEW BROWN • Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. —
W
ildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-
damaging small particle air pollution in the Western U.S. in
recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes,
according to a study released Monday.
Even as pollution emissions de-
clined from other sources including
vehicle exhaust and power plants,
the amount from fires increased
sharply, said researchers at Stanford
University and the University of
California, San Diego.
The findings underscore the
growing public health threat posed
by climate change as it contrib-
utes to catastrophic wildfires such
as those that charred huge areas of
Oregon and California in 2020. Na-
tionwide, wildfires were the source
of up to 25% of small particle pollu-
tion in some years, the researchers
said.
‘Many, many people
will see wildfire smoke’
“From a climate perspective,
wildfires should be the first things
on our minds for many of us in the
U.S.,” said Marshall Burke, an asso-
ciate professor of earth system sci-
ence at Stanford and lead author of
the study.
“Most people do not see sea-level
rise. Most people do not ever see
hurricanes. Many, many people will
see wildfire smoke from climate
change,” Burke added. The study
was published in the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers used satellite im-
ages of smoke plumes and govern-
crease in smoke pollution is driven
by climate change versus the forest
fuel buildup, she added.
Mickley and researchers from
Colorado State University also cau-
tioned that fires can vary signifi-
cantly from year to year because of
weather changes, making it hard to
identify trends over relatively short
periods such as the decade exam-
ined in the new study.
ment air quality data to model how
much pollution was generated na-
38 million breathe unhealthy air
tionwide by fires from 2016 to 2018
An AP analysis of data from
compared to a decade earlier. Their
government monitoring stations
results were in line with previous
found that at least 38 million people
studies of smoke emissions across
in California, Oregon, Washing-
earlier time periods and more lim-
ton, Idaho and Montana were ex-
ited geographic areas.
posed to unhealthy levels of wildfire
Large wildfires churn out plumes
smoke for at least five days in 2020.
of smoke thick with microscopic
Major cities in Oregon suffered the
pollution particles that can drift
highest pollution levels they had
hundreds or even thousands of
ever recorded.
miles. Driving the explosion in fires
Smoke particles from those wild-
in recent years were warmer tem-
fires were blamed for
peratures, drought
health problems rang-
and decades of accu-
ing from difficulty
mulated brush, small
“From a climate
breathing to a pro-
trees and other fuels in
perspective,
jected spike in prema-
forests.
ture deaths, according
Air pollution experts
wildfires
should
to health authorities
say residents of the
be the first things
and researchers.
West Coast and North-
Fires across the West
ern Rockies in partic-
on our minds
emitted more than a
ular should expect ma-
million tons of partic-
jor smoke events from
for many of us
ulate pollution in 2012,
wildfires to become
in the U.S.”
2015 and 2017, and al-
more frequent.
most as much in 2018.
There’s little doubt
— Marshall Burke,
Scientists study-
air quality regulations
lead author of
ing
long-term health
helped decrease other
the study
problems have found
sources of pollution
correlations between
even as wildfire smoke
smoke exposure and
increased, said Loretta
decreased lung function, weakened
Mickley, an atmospheric chemist at
immune systems and higher rates
Harvard University. But it’s difficult
of flu.
to separate how much of the in-
Trump administration finishes sage grouse review
BY MATTHEW BROWN
Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. — The
Trump administration has
completed a review of plans
to ease protections for a
struggling bird species in
seven states in the West, but
there’s little time to put the re-
laxed rules for industry into
action before President-elect
Joe Biden takes office.
The ground-dwelling,
chicken-sized greater sage
grouse has been at the cen-
ter of a long-running dispute
David Zalubowski/AP file
Sage grouse can be found in Or-
egon and other Western states.
over how much of the Amer-
ican West’s expansive public
lands should be developed.
A federal judge blocked
the Trump administration
in 2019 from its plans to re-
lax rules on mining, drilling
and grazing across millions
of acres of land because of
potential harm to the sage
grouse.
After releasing an envi-
ronmental study in Novem-
ber aimed at justifying the
changes, Bureau of Land
Management officials said in
a notice Monday they stand
behind their plans.
But the ruling that blocked
the changes is still in place.
And with just eight days left
before Biden’s inauguration,
environmentalists said the
Trump administration’s latest
move won’t change anything,
barring a last-minute reversal
by the court.
“It’s a nothing burger. It’s a
parting shot on the way out
the door,” said Greta Ander-
son with Western Watershed
Project, one of the group’s in-
volved in the legal case. “We
don’t expect the Biden ad-
ministration to defend these
terrible plans.”
Angela Davis to speak for
OSU’s virtual MLK Day event
Civil rights activist, educator
and author Angela Davis will be
the keynote speaker for Oregon
State University’s virtual Dr. Mar-
tin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
Davis’ hour-long keynote
speech, delivered remotely, will
begin at 9:30 a.m. Monday, which
is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
according to a press release from
the university. After that, Erin
Rook — Oregon State Universi-
ty-Cascades’ diversity coordina-
tor — will host a discussion about
how to apply the civil rights lead-
ers’ wisdom to one’s everyday life.
OSU-Cascades students will
also embark on various volun-
teer projects throughout Central
Oregon for MLK Day, the release
stated.
Those interested in listening to
Davis’ speech and participating in
the following discussion can regis-
ter at OSU-Cascades’ website.
COCC hosts Season of
Nonviolence programs
Central Oregon Community
College is hosting its 13th annual
Season of Nonviolence program-
ing virtually this year, with two
speakers and a book discussion.
The virtual book discussion will
begin the week of Jan. 25 at var-
ious locations found online. The
discussion will focus on the book,
“Caste: The Origins of Our Dis-
contents,” by Pu-
litzer Prize-win-
ner Isabel
Wilkerson. The
book examines
the unseen and
unspoken sys-
tems of hierar-
Cobb
chy that shaped
and continue to
affect systems
of oppression
in America, ac-
cording to the
college.
The program-
ing will continue
Sherman
Feb. 2 with a
talk, “The Half-
Life of Freedom: Race and Justice
in America Today,” by Jelani Cobb,
a New Yorker staff writer and pro-
fessor at Columbia University.
Cobb’s talk will be held at 5 p.m.
The next speaker will be Larry
S. Sherman, a professor of neuro-
science at Oregon Health & Sci-
ence University. Sherman’s talk,
“Neuroscience of Prejudice: Rac-
ism and the Brain” will be held at
4 p.m. Feb. 21.
Each talk is free, but registration
is required.
Human remains found on
Warm Springs reservation
Unidentified human remains
were found Tuesday on the Warm
Springs Indian Reservation.
A man salvaging wood from
an old wooden cattle chute along
Tenino Road made the discovery
and called police. He told them
he’d noticed a round thing on the
ground and thought it looked like
a human skull, said Bill Elliott,
chief of the Warm Springs Tribal
Police Department.
Officers searched the area and
collected several other bones
found nearby.
Preliminary examinations
from the medical examiner sug-
gest the remains have been at the
location for one to 10 years.
Warm Springs Police has re-
quested a cadaver dog to assist
the search.
People with information are
asked to call 541-553-2202.
— Bulletin staff report