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Deschutes County cases: 5,692 (22 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 56 (4 new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 1,882 (5 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 27 (1 new death)
130
(Dec. 4)
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
cause mild illness. Some, like this one, can cause more severe symptoms and
can be fatal. Symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath.
108 new cases
120
(Jan. 1)
90
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cases
110
*No data
available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
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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.
Oregon cases: 150,034 (474 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,137 (43 new deaths)
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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Saturday, Feb. 13:
Crook County cases: 743 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 18 (2 new deaths)
7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday
and holidays
SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
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47 new cases
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(Oct. 31)
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(Sept. 19)
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Rep. Hernandez challenges sexual
harassment findings in $1M suit
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Rep. Diego Hernandez, a
Portland Democrat who faces
an expulsion vote after law-
makers determined he sex-
ually harassed three women,
filed a $1 million lawsuit Fri-
day against the Oregon Leg-
islature, House Speaker Tina
Kotek and others.
In his 105-page filing, Her-
nandez counters the narrative
laid out by the two outside in-
vestigators who spent months
looking into complaints that
he sexually harassed or cre-
ated a hostile workplace for
five women whose work
brought them to the Capitol
at times. Jackie Sandmeyer,
the legislature’s acting equity
officer who oversaw the pro-
cess, and the Republican and
Democratic House members
who co-chaired the Conduct
Committee charged with de-
ciding the investigation out-
come are also named in the
lawsuit.
The lawsuit seeks $1 mil-
lion in non economic damages
as well as money to cover any
legal fees.
Two of the women, who
were not named in legisla-
tive proceedings, said they
feared Hernandez might use
his political position to hurt
their careers if they rebuffed
his unwanted advances. The
committee concluded Her-
nandez pressured them to
restart romantic relation-
ships and subjected a long-
term partner to controlling
PORTLAND
Cops not meeting
federal use of force
requirements
The Associated Press
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian file
Rep. Diego Hernandez, D-Portland, who was elected in 2018, is
shown at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem.
and abusive treatment.
Hernandez, who was
elected in 2018, argues in the
lawsuit that the legislature’s
conduct committee process
was flawed in numerous
ways, including that dead-
lines were extended to benefit
the women, he was not in-
formed of most of the wom-
en’s complaints in a timely
fashion and he did not receive
a copy of the investigator’s re-
port in the appropriate time
period.
Hernandez contends that
Conduct Committee mem-
bers, who voted to recom-
mend the House expel him,
never saw his most important
evidence, captured in con-
temporaneous emails, texts
and Facebook posts: that the
women in question reached
out to him and actively pur-
sued relationships with him.
Sandmeyer, in preparing
Hernandez’s statement for
committee members to re-
view, entirely blacked out all
texts, emails and social media
exchanges between Hernan-
dez and the women.
Last Friday, the four-person
conduct committee unani-
mously determined that Her-
nandez took 18 specific ac-
tions that constituted sexual
harassment or created a hos-
tile workplace.
The full House is now ex-
pected to vote as early as Feb.
16 on Hernandez’s case. It
would take a two-thirds vote,
or 40 House lawmakers, to ex-
pel a member.
Danny Moran, spokes-
man for House Speaker Tina
Kotek, would not comment
on the lawsuit.
PORTLAND — U.S. De-
partment of Justice lawyers
say police in Portland no lon-
ger meet several key reforms
required under a settlement
agreement adopted after fed-
eral investigators found officers
used excessive force against
people with mental illness.
They cited inappropriate use
and management of force last
year during protests, inadequate
training, subpar police oversight
and a failure to adequately share
an annual Police Bureau report
with the public as required, The
Oregonian reported.
Police used force during
2020 mass protests that violated
bureau policy, with officers
conflating active versus pas-
sive resistance as the basis for
firing rubber bullets and other
impact munitions considered
to be less lethal, according to a
Justice Department review filed
Wednesday in federal court.
Supervisors frequently failed
to probe or analyze officers’
use of force, gave blanket ap-
proval of force and often “cut-
and-paste” identical or similar
language into their reviews, the
Supervisors frequently failed
to probe or analyze officers’
use of force, gave blanket
approval of force and often
“cut-and-paste” identical or
similar language into their
reviews, the report said.
report said.
The Portland Police Bureau
“repeatedly has asserted that
certain impactful events —
COVID 19, national political
turmoil, and a wildfire season
— were beyond its control.
True though that may be, those
events do not eliminate the
City’s obligations under this
Agreement and the Constitu-
tion,” the 78-page report said.
The next court hearing on
the settlement status is set for
Aug. 26 before U.S. District
Judge Michael H. Simon.
Police Chief Chuck Lovell
said of the report’s findings,
“We will use the valuable feed-
back to continue to improve
and grow as an agency.”
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Limited COVID-19 vaccinations
arrive at retail pharmacies
BY ERIN ROSS
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Oregon Health Authority
Director Patrick Allen said
Friday that over 127 pharma-
cies — including Walgreens,
Costco, Albertsons-Safeway
and Health Mart-affiliated re-
tailers — had each received
100 doses of the vaccine that
morning. Those pharmacies
will start taking appointments
soon.
The pharmacies are in 27 of
Oregon’s 36 counties. The lo-
cations were chosen using the
Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention’s COVID-19
vulnerability index .
The news comes as OHA
officials announced that the
state’s COVID-19 vaccination
program has administered
first-dose vaccines to over
466,000 Oregonians as of Fri-
day. That’s almost 10% of the
state, a big milestone.
There is no list available
of all pharmacies taking ap-
pointments.
People will need to call
their local pharmacies, use the
Google tool “Get Vaccinated
Oregon” to register for alerts
or reach out to local public
health authorities.
Stephen Certo, Director of
Pharmacy Operations at Alb-
ertsons-Safety for Oregon and
Washington said over a hun-
dred Oregon stores will have
the vaccine.
Albertsons-Safeway will
set up an online tool people
can use to book COVID-19
vaccinations at local pharma-
cies. Safeway’s can be found at
safeway.com/pharmacy, and
Albertson’s at albertsons.com/
pharmacy/covid-19.html. Us-
ers can input their ZIP code
and check availability .
That tool can also be used
to make appointments. The
tool will screen potential re-
cipients for eligibility and au-
tomatically schedule them.
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