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COVID-19 data for Saturday, Feb. 6:
Deschutes County cases: 5,538 (28 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 47 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 715 (5 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 16 (1 new death)
Jefferson County cases: 1,824 (8 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 25 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 146,741 (624 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,019 (17 new deaths)
SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
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What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus. Coronavi-
ruses are a group of viruses that can cause a range of symptoms. Some usually
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can be fatal. Symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath.
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(Nov. 27)
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Two members of an Ore-
gon group charged with de-
ciding who gets coronavirus
vaccines next received racist,
hateful and upsetting mes-
sages, prompting state officials
to close public access to the
group’s last two meetings, state
officials revealed Friday.
The Vaccine Advisory Com-
mittee’s explicit focus has been
to bring equity to the vaccine
equation, speaking for un-
derserved communities and
helping combat the racism in-
grained in Oregon’s health care
system.
But the group appeared to
be the victim of some of what
it was fighting, with one mem-
ber receiving “multiple hateful,
racist emails” and another get-
ting “upsetting communica-
tions,” a spokesman for the Or-
egon Health Authority said.
“It was just so dishearten-
ing. These are folks who vol-
unteered their time,” Rachael
Banks, the public health di-
rector, told The Oregonian.
“They’re there advocating on
behalf of their communities.”
The 27-member commit-
tee made its final recommen-
dations Jan. 28 as part of its
eighth meeting open to the
public. State officials said they
learned about the emails the
“It was just so disheartening.
These are folks who
volunteered their time.
They’re there advocating on
behalf of their communities.”
— Rachael Banks,
public health director
following day, prompting them
to close access to meetings
Tuesday and Thursday in the
interests of the members’ com-
fort and safety, and because the
formal recommendations had
already been finalized.
Banks said she believes
members were more comfort-
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able speaking openly during
the closed meetings. But the
lack of transparency prevented
the public from hearing mem-
bers’ concerns about the pro-
cess, including the little time
they had to come up with rec-
ommendations and what one
member said was a desire for
some form of oversight of how
vaccines are allocated locally.
Members did not ask the
health authority to close the
meeting to the public, Banks
said, but multiple people on
the committee were concerned
when they learned about the
racist emails.
The agency acknowledged
the fine line it has to walk
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A view of Wizard Island at Crater Lake National Park in July 2020.
Oregon man banned from Crater
Lake after years of poaching elk
BY KALE WILLIAMS
The Oregonian
An Oregon man was
banned from Crater Lake
National Park, ordered to
pay tens of thousands in res-
titution and sentenced to
three years’ probation after
he pleaded guilty to poach-
ing a trophy bull elk in the
park several years ago, pros-
ecutors said Friday.
The guilty plea and sen-
tence came as the result of
a yearslong investigation
into the activities of Adrian
Wood, a 44-year-old White
City resident whom the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service
began tracking after they
received reports he was ille-
gally hunting in the park in
2014.
“Our nation’s environ-
mental laws are in place to
protect vulnerable wildlife
populations and ensure that
future generations will have
the opportunity to enjoy
these animals as we do to-
day. Mr. Wood preyed on elk
and deer who were unaccus-
tomed to being hunted and
thus uniquely vulnerable to
poaching,” U.S. Attorney for
Oregon Billy Williams said
in a statement.
Two people told officials
that Wood had been illegally
hunting in the park in July
2014, and, over the next two
years, investigators obtained
text messages in which he
told his wife he was trying
to find a bleeding elk he had
shot. In another text message,
Wood texted another person
that he was “pretty good at
finding elk around here.”
“I’ve killed 24 and get one
every year,” the text read, ac-
cording to court documents.
In 2016, Wood was
stopped by an Oregon State
Police trooper near the
park’s boundary with blood
on his hands and clothing.
The next day, the trooper re-
turned to the area and found
a partially butchered elk car-
cass.
“The trooper noted that
the elk’s head was sawed
off and some meat was re-
moved,” prosecutors said in
a statement. “Shortly there-
after, Wood texted photos
of himself posing with the
elk. (Oregon State Police)
obtained the photos and
matched them to the car-
cass.”
Soon after, federal agents
searched Wood’s residence
and found several guns, am-
munition and various spec-
imens of hunted animals.
A DNA analysis showed
that several of the samples
matched at least 12 deer, a
black bear and 13 elk, in-
cluding the one discovered
by the trooper inside the
park boundary.
Wood was indicted by
a grand jury in 2019 on
charges of violating the
Lacey Act, which forbids
hunting in national parks.
He pleaded guilty last
year and was sentenced to a
lifetime ban from the park,
three years of probation and
ordered to pay $42,500 in
restitution.
“The defendant’s blatant
disregard for the law caused
great harm to the elk herd in
the park,” James Ashburner,
an agent with the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, said
in a statement. “Our public
lands are special places for
both people and wildlife.”
LA CENTER, Wash. — A
woman has been arrested on
suspicion of leaving a pas-
senger who jumped to her
death from the woman’s car
while they were traveling on
a southwest Washington free-
way.
The Washington State Pa-
trol arrested Lacee Cabrera
on Thursday on suspicion of
hit and run resulting in death,
The Oregonian reported.
Investigators say she and
Kendra Fain were arguing
on Jan. 31 while driving on
Interstate 5 and that Fain of
Sutherlin, Oregon, jumped
out of the car while the vehi-
cle was moving at highway
speeds.
Cabrera drove away with-
out calling 911, according to
the state patrol. State troopers
said Fain was discovered Sun-
day on Interstate 5 north of La
Center, Washington. Emer-
gency crews pronounced her
dead at the scene.
Investigators went to Cabre-
ra’s boyfriend’s apartment
where the boyfriend said
Cabrera had told him that
Fain jumped from the mov-
ing vehicle and was dead, ac-
cording to a probable cause
affidavit obtained by The Co-
lumbian.
Cabrera said she kept driv-
ing after Fain jumped and that
she started to slow down un-
til she saw another driver pull
onto the shoulder near Fain’s
body.
Cabrera was arrested at the
apartment and booked into
the Clark County Jail.
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