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Many states have had trouble distributing the coronavirus vaccine
equitably. In North Carolina, Black people account for 22% of the popula-
tion but 11% of first dose recipients, according to state data. White peo-
ple, a category in which the state includes both Hispanic and non-His-
panic whites, are 68% of the population and 82% of those vaccinated. An
Associated Press analysis shows Black people in several other parts of the
U.S. are lagging behind whites in receiving COVID-19 vaccinations.
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JAIMIE DING AND
JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
Armed protesters tried to
force their way into a hospi-
tal near Vancouver on Friday
night, authorities said. Deputies
from the Clark County Sher-
iff’s Office pushed them away,
though no arrests were made.
The protesters gathered in
response to a social media call
that claimed a woman who
had refused a COVID-19 test
was not allowed to leave the
medical facility. However, the
sheriff’s office determined the
patient willingly stayed in the
hospital to receive medical
treatment.
According to a live stream
shared online, protesters said
a woman in her 70s had been
hospitalized at Legacy Salmon
Creek the previous night with
a urinary tract infection and
declined to take a coronavirus
test. A woman narrating the
livestream said hospital em-
ployees did not allow her to
leave, prompting demonstra-
tors to gather outside.
According to hospital per-
sonnel, the patient had refused
a COVID-19 test upon ad-
mittance to the hospital and
was put in quarantine while
receiving medical treatment,
the Clark County Sheriff’s Of-
fice said. The woman’s daugh-
ter was not allowed to see her
mother in quarantine because
she had refused to wear a mask
upon entering the hospital.
Dispatchers received a call at
4:48 p.m. from a woman that
reported her mother was be-
ing held against her will at the
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital.
She said she had medical power
of attorney over her mother but
was not being allowed inside
the facility, according to the
sheriff’s office.
The responding deputy
spoke to the patient at the hos-
pital and determined she was
able to make her own decisions.
She told the deputy that she
wanted to stay in the hospital to
receive treatment, the sheriff’s
office said.
The sheriff’s office said Leg-
acy security requested addi-
tional support as protesters ar-
rived and a total of 22 deputies
responded to the scene.
Videos posted online show a
woman who identified herself
as the hospital patient’s daugh-
ter standing at the door with-
out a mask, yelling at officers
and demanding to be allowed
inside.
Several demonstrators came
with firearms and gas masks,
the sheriff’s office said. At one
point, some attempted to force
their way into the hospital and
had to be pushed back out.
A man who tried to assault a
deputy in the process was pep-
per-sprayed in the face, accord-
ing to the sheriff’s office.
The patient asked to be dis-
charged at 7:55 p.m., according
to the sheriff’s office. She was
released around 8:40 p.m. to
the family, and the crowd dissi-
pated shortly after, the sheriff’s
office said.
The live stream of the
demonstration attracted thou-
sands of views, in part because
it was posted on the YouTube
channel of Ammon Bundy, one
of the men who led the armed
occupation of the Malheur Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge in 2016.
Bundy himself was not visible
on the livestream, and it’s not
clear if he was in attendance.
The live stream posted to
Bundy’s page showed a crowd
of about 30 protesters outside
the hospital, most of whom
weren’t wearing masks. Sev-
eral protesters said they were
waiting for the woman to be
released.
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Deputies block Vancouver medical center from protesters
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Cannon Beach is drawing tourists,
but business doesn’t always follow
LOCAL BRIEFING
BY JAMIE HALE
The Oregonian
The winter sun sank behind
Haystack Rock on a Friday in
January, turning the horizon a
brilliant gold. A crowd of peo-
ple swarmed in the deep pur-
ple shadow, their voices hushed
by crashing waves as they took
selfies at the rock and dug
small fires into the sand.
January is supposed to be
the slow season on the north
Oregon Coast, but this year —
despite, or perhaps because of,
the ongoing pandemic — Can-
non Beach is still bustling with
activity.
Locals said the coastal town
has been busier than usual this
winter, populated primarily by
regional tourists seeking a brief
escape to the ocean. That’s
been a boon for some local
businesses in Cannon Beach,
but for many the crowds hav-
en’t translated into dollars.
Jim Paino, executive director
of the Cannon Beach Cham-
ber of Commerce, confirmed
that this winter has been bus-
ier than normal, with hotels
and vacation rentals filling
up as people visit the Oregon
Coast during what the cham-
ber hopefully advertises as “the
magic season.”
“We are getting more peo-
ple coming to our community
to escape and get out of their
day-to-day routine,” Paino said.
However, “I wouldn’t quite call
it normal tourism.”
There’s a general attitude
that while travel is safe, going
inside businesses still feels too
risky for many people, he said.
And while some businesses
have found ways to survive —
a florist who now works from
home, a clothing store that
moved online — restaurants
are still struggling to get by.
Unlike attraction-centric
coastal towns like Newport
or Seaside, Cannon Beach
is above all else a restaurant
town, where high-priced sea-
food and wine commingle with
craft breweries and fried fish,
all in the shadow of the iconic
Haystack Rock.
It’s that high-class tourism
that Holly Lorincz-MacGregor
and her husband, Chip Mac-
Gregor, hoped to tap with their
twin businesses, MacGregor’s
Whiskey Bar in Manzanita and
their offshoot bar and restau-
rant in Cannon Beach, which
opened in 2019, and in June
expanded into a neighbor-
ing space that was previously
occupied by Morris’ Fireside
Restaurant.
Oregon’s recent approval
of cocktails to-go has been
Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office
Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office rescue personnel transport a
6-year-old Springfield girl who was injured in a sledding mishap
Saturday near Paulina Lake Lodge.
Jamie Hale/The Oregonian
People flock to Haystack Rock during a winter sunset in Cannon Beach
on the north Oregon Coast.
a relief for the whiskey bar,
Lorincz-MacGregor said, but
the new rule is just the latest
twist in what has otherwise
been an extraordinarily frus-
trating year, when even basic
planning has been impossible.
Forget knowing what sea-
sons will bring business, she
said, their challenge has been
knowing what days of the week
will be successful.
“There has been consistently
no consistency,” Lorincz-Mac-
Gregor said. “We’re always
trying to gauge what it is that
a tourist community like this
wants, if there’s even going to
be any tourists here, and how
best to go about it so we’re not
losing money.”
The biggest challenge for
restaurants in Cannon Beach
this winter has been the lack of
indoor seating — or rather, the
lack of consistency in what’s
been allowed.
Restaurant regulations in
Oregon are determined by the
COVID-19 risk level for each
county, updated with new data
every two weeks. This winter,
Clatsop County has bounced
between “high” and “extreme”
risk, straddling the line be-
tween indoor dining being
allowed at smaller levels, or
prohibited entirely. On Jan. 26,
the state announced the county
would remain at “extreme risk”
through at least Feb. 12.
That’s meant two-week
stretches of limited indoor din-
ing and two-week stretches
of outdoor dining or takeout
only — a maddening dance for
restaurant managers. Those
who only have indoor dining
areas are forced to rely on a
shaky takeout model to get by,
while restaurants with outdoor
seating have seen waits of up
to two or three hours to get a
table.
The Driftwood Restaurant &
Lounge, a staple in downtown
Cannon Beach, has long been
known for its patio seating,
which has expanded around
the corner during the pan-
demic. When indoor dining
has been closed this winter,
people have waited for hours
just to get a seat outside.
General manager Jordan
Maier said while it’s nice to
be busy, it’s frustrating that
the restaurant can’t meet the
demand. The five tables the
restaurant added outside don’t
make up for what’s been lost
inside, and the smaller staff
sometimes can’t keep up with
the glut of takeout orders. Now
he also needs to train serv-
ers on the new rules for to-go
cocktails, which at least prom-
ise a helpful source of revenue.
Girl injured in sledding mishap near Paulina Lake Lodge
Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office rescue personnel trans-
ported a 6-year-old girl from Paulina Lake Lodge to a waiting
ambulance after a sledding accident Saturday afternoon.
A lodge employee called 911 about 12:20 p.m. and asked
authorities to transport the injured child, who is from Spring-
field, to Ten Mile Sno-park, according to a release from the
sheriff’s office.
Sheriff’s rescue personnel using snowmobiles and a tracked
Polaris side-by-side ATV reached the girl about 2 p.m. She was
taken to the sno-park where a La Pine Fire Department am-
bulance was waiting to take her to St. Charles Bend, the release
states.
The sheriff’s office did not release injury information or the
child’s condition.
— Bulletin wire report
NORTHWEST BRIEFING
Teen arrested in death at Clackamas County rest stop
Police arrested a 16-year-old Washington boy in connection
with the death of a teen boy whose body was found Tuesday
inside a car parked at an Interstate 5 rest stop in Clackamas
County.
The victim, a 16-year-old boy from Vancouver, Washington,
was found about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the northbound French
Prairie rest stop near Aurora, Oregon state troopers said. He
died from a gunshot wound.
According to Oregon State Police, the suspect was an ac-
quaintance of the victim. He was lodged in the Clark County
Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of murder, assault and
unlawful use of a weapon.
The Oregon State Police said they worked with the Vancou-
ver Police Department to arrest the suspect. The names of the
suspect and the victim have not been released by state police.
— The Oregonian
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