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Plummeting cases in U.S. show
a path to crushing COVID-19
BY JILL R. SHAH
AND EMMA COURT
Bloomberg News
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
A sick pine siskin. Signs of a sick bird can include sitting at a feeder or on the
ground for a longer period of time and fluffed or ruffled feathers.
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The current outbreak has
spread as far north as British Co-
lumbia and as far south as San
Francisco, affecting thousands
of birds.
“The range is pretty extensive,
and it’s all throughout Oregon,”
Compton said.
Jen Lair, an owner of Wild
Birds Unlimited in Bend, said
the outbreak occurs every win-
ter like the flu for humans. This
winter happened to have some
increased cases in areas around
Sisters and Redmond, she said.
Lair expects the outbreak to
subside locally since the most
susceptible bird, the pine siskins,
is starting to leave the area.
“I haven’t seen that many
around lately,” Lair said. “People
have not been buying as much of
the finch food.”
If people want to keep their
bird feeders up, they should
clean them at least once a week
with a diluted bleach solution,
Compton said.
Other nectar feeders for hum-
mingbirds are safe, and bird
baths can stay out as long as they
are cleaned daily.
Because salmonella can
spread to humans and pets, res-
idents need to be careful if they
see a sick or dead bird, Comp-
ton said. Residents should wear
gloves to remove a dead bird.
“You don’t want your dog or
cat to pick up the bird,” Comp-
ton said. “Also you don’t want
other birds to come in contact
with that sick bird.”
If a resident suspects a bird is
sick, they are encouraged to call
Think Wild’s hotline at (541)
241-8680.
Bird watching has become a
popular activity in quarantine
during the COVID-19 pan-
demic, and more people have
bird feeders, Compton said. It
may seem disappointing to take
down a bird feeder for the next
month, but it will keep birds
safe, she said.
“It’s something that keeps you
busy while you’re at home and
you want to have something nice
to look out your window,” Comp-
ton said. “But anything we can do
to minimize the spread will help
protect our native songbirds.”
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COVID-19 cases and
hospitalizations are drop-
ping dramatically across the
U.S., suggesting that mea-
sures to interrupt transmis-
sion are working, at least
for now.
More than 27.6 million
Americans have tested pos-
itive, likely giving them
some degree of immunity. A
rising number — 11.8% of
the population — has now
received at least one dose of
a vaccine. And data gath-
ered from mobile phones
suggest people are being
more cautious day-to-day.
If cases keep falling, it could
buy time for the vaccina-
tion effort to take hold in
the warm summer months
ahead, potentially under-
pinning a long-sought eco-
nomic recovery.
Health experts, though,
anticipate challenges. In-
oculations need to outpace
highly contagious variants
from the U.K. and South
Africa that are now in the
U.S. And the upcoming
holidays — Spring Break,
Easter and Mother’s Day
included — hold the threat
of group gatherings that
can swiftly boost the virus’s
spread.
“The history of surges is
they do come down,” said
Robert Wachter, chair of
the department of med-
icine at the University of
California-San Francisco.
“They generally come down
from some combination
of changes in behavior,
changes in government pol-
icy and the impact of im-
munity.”
Infectious disease ex-
perts agree it’s way too early
to call an end to the pan-
demic. The declines follow a
surge tied to the Thanksgiv-
ing and Christmas holiday
season, and infection lev-
els remain roughly on par
with trends from last fall at
around 91,000 new cases
confirmed daily.
Early on, the country ex-
perienced regional surges
in the northeast last spring,
Sun Belt states in the sum-
mer and Midwest and West-
ern states through the fall.
However, the latest surge
worsened nearly every-
where in January, producing
the deadliest month so far.
Since then, the numbers
have leveled off or declined.
Ali Mokdad, a professor of
health metrics at the Uni-
versity of Washington’s In-
stitute of Health Metrics
and Evaluation, said that af-
ter the holiday surge, Amer-
icans began to behave much
more cautiously.
“If you look at our data,
the week after Thanksgiv-
ing, the week after Christ-
mas, it was dead silence,”
Mokdad said. “People
stayed at home, even cell-
phone calls went down.”
The country is still far
C LASSIFIEDS
short of herd immunity, the
time when the country has
so much protection from
the dominant strain that it
can no longer spread effec-
tively. That will likely re-
quire 70% to 85% of the 330
million Americans be either
vaccinated or have natural
protection, experts say.
At the present vaccina-
tion rate, enough doses will
have been administered
by Spring Break in mid-
March to cover about 15%
of the U.S. population with
two doses, according to the
Bloomberg vaccine tracker.
By Easter Sunday, that will
rise to about 20% and by
Mother’s Day enough shots
could be given to cover
close to 30% of Americans.
And these estimates, based
on vaccination rates over
the last week, should rise
substanatially as more vac-
cine supply becomes avail-
able.
Still, the highly-conta-
gious U.K. variant, known
by scientists as B.1.1.7, is
already tied to about 1% to
4% of U.S. infections and
is predicted to become the
dominant strain by late
March or April, according
to Gregory Armstrong, di-
rector of the Advanced Mo-
lecular Detection Program
at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
That may set up a race
between vaccine dispersals,
which are likely to rise, and
the ability of the virus to
spread among Americans
who aren’t yet immunized,
some experts say.
Armstrong emphasized
in an interview that the mu-
tation today remains at rel-
atively low levels. Even if
the U.K. variant — which
is believed to be 50% more
transmissible — accounted
for 10% of all known infec-
tions, it would drive cases
up by just 5%, according to
Armstrong.
That’s “small enough that
we’re not even going to be
able to detect it,” Armstrong
said.
Still, as the variant be-
comes more prevalent, ad-
herence to measures like
mask-wearing, social dis-
tancing and vaccination will
have to be even better to
prevent infections from in-
creasing, he added.
Researchers at Cedars-Si-
nai recently claimed to have
found a U.S. variant in Cal-
ifornia linked to the holi-
day season in Los Angeles.
That finding has prompted
new concern about the role
being played to date by the
new mutations.
“There’s no consensus yet
on what to think of that,”
Armstrong said. “Across the
U.S., what’s happened in
the last several months, this
surge that peaked in the be-
ginning of January, a lot of
people have looked at this
and have not seen anything
in the virus itself that would
explain it.”
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DEED OF
TRUST AND PROP-
ERTY
DESCRIP-
TION: This instru-
ment
makes
reference to that cer-
tain that certain
Deed of Trust, As-
signment of Leases
and Rents and Se-
curity
Agreement
dated November 2,
2015, and recorded
November 3, 2015,
as Instrument No.
2015-045124, in the
Official Records of
Deschutes County,
Oregon
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ny, is the Grantor,
TICOR TITLE COM-
PANY is the original
Trustee, and NATIX-
IS REAL ESTATE
CAPITAL LLC, a Del-
aware limited liability
company, is the orig-
inal Beneficiary, as
assigned to WILM-
INGTON
TRUST,
NATIONAL ASSO-
CIATION,
AS
TRUSTEE FOR THE
REGISTERED
HOLDERS
OF
WELLS
FARGO
COMMERCIAL
M O R T G A G E
TRUST 2015-NXS4,
COMMERCIAL
MORTGAGE PASS-
THROUGH
CER-
TIFICATES, SERIES
2015-NXS4, by that
certain Assignment
of Deed of Trust, As-
signment of Leases
and Rents and Se-
curity
Agreement
dated effective as of
December 9, 2015,
and recorded Janu-
ary 27, 2016, as In-
strument No. 2016-
002903,
in
the
Official Records of
Deschutes County,
State of Oregon, as
assigned to the Ben-
eficiary, RSS WF-
CM2015NXS4-OR
SIB, LLC, an Oregon
limited liability com-
pany, by that certain
Assignment of Deed
of Trust, Assignment
of Leases and Rents
and Security Agree-
ment dated effective
as of March 26,
2019, and recorded
March 29, 2019, as
Instrument No. 2019-
09880, in the Official
Records
of
De-
schutes
County,
State of Oregon, (the
“Deed of Trust”). The
aforementioned
Deed of Trust covers
property (the “Prop-
erty”) described as:
A parcel of land lo-
cated in the South-
east Quarter (SE
1/4)
of
Section
Twenty (20), Town-
ship Seventeen (17)
South,
Range
Twelve (12) East of
the Willamette Me-
ridian,
Deschutes
County, Oregon, be-
ing more particularly
described as follows:
Beginning at a point
on the Westerly right
of way line of the
Dalles
California
Highway
(Oregon
State Highway) and
being 435 feet North
of the South line of
said Section 28,
from which a 3 inch
brass cap marking
the Southeast cor-
ner of said Section
20 bears South 46°
18’ 18” East, a dis-
tance of 640.40 feet;
thence following a
line parallel to and
f
f
435 feet North of
said South line of
Section 20, North
89° 05’ 00” West, a
distance of 605.47
feet to a point on the
Easterly bank of the
Deschutes
River
(Ordinary High Wa-
ter Line); thence fol-
lowing the said East-
erly river bank the
following
eight
courses and distanc-
es: North 41° 07’
26” West, a distance
of 74.71 feet; North
12° 56’ 43” West, a
distance of 103.65
feet; North 08° 18’
23” East, a distance
of 138.45 feet; North
19° 45’ 34” East, a
distance of 159.66
feet; North 16° 53’
45” East, a distance
of 113.07 feet; North
08° 09’ 43” East, a
distance of 138.76
feet; North 03° 50’
58” West, a distance
of 109.53 feet; North
21° 03’ 03” West, a
distance of 89.96
feet to a point on the
North line of the
Southeast Quarter
of the Southeast
Quarter (SE1/4 SE
1/4) of said Section
20; thence following
said North line South
89° 17’ 42” East, a
distance of 96.53
feet to a point on the
Westerly right of way
line of 0. B. Riley
Road
(County
Road); thence fol-
lowing said Westerly
right of way line the
following one curve
and one course and
distance: following
the arc of a 1233.57
foot radius curve left,
a distance of 330.93
feet (chord bears
South 30° 09’ 43”
East, 329.94 feet);
South 37° 50’ 50”
East, a distance of
49.49 feet to a point
on the Westerly right
of way line of the
said Dalles Califor-
nia Highway (Ore-
gon State Highway);
thence following the
said Westerly right of
way line of state
highway the follow-
ing one course and
distance and one
curve: South 52° 18’
00” West, a distance
of 20.33 feet; follow-
ing the arc of a
2241.82 foot radius
curve right, a dis-
tance of 640.05 feet
(chord bears South
29° 31’ 15” East,
637.87 feet) to the
point of beginning
the terminus of this
description. Together
with all buildings,
structures, fixtures
and other improve-
ments now or here-
after located thereon
(the
“Improve-
ments”), all Addition-
C
al Collateral de-
scribed in Exhibit A
attached hereto and
incorporated herein
by reference, and all
other personal prop-
erty described in the
Deed of Trust. The
undersigned hereby
certifies that he has
no knowledge of any
assignments of the
Deed of Trust by the
Trustee or by the
Beneficiary or any
appointments of a
Successor Trustee
other than the ap-
pointment of DAVID
W.
CRISWELL,
ESQ., as Successor
Trustee as recorded
in the property re-
cords of the county
in which the Proper-
ty described above
is situated. Further,
the undersigned cer-
tifies that no action
has been instituted
to recover the debt,
or any part thereof,
now remaining se-
cured by the Deed of
Trust. Or, if such ac-
tion has been insti-
tuted, it has been
dismissed except as
permitted by ORS
86.752(7). The name
and address of the
Successor Trustee
are as follows: David
W. Criswell, Succes-
sor Trustee, Lane
Powell PC, 601 SW
Second
Avenue,
Suite 2100, Portland,
OR 97204. The
Deed of Trust is not a
“Residential
Trust
Deed”, as defined in
ORS 86.705(6), thus
the requirements of
Chapter 304 [S.B.
558], Oregon Laws
2013, Chapter 112
[S.B. 1552], Section
4a, Oregon Laws
2012, and ORS
86.771(10) do not
apply. DEFAULT BY
GRANTOR: There
are continuing and
uncured defaults by
Shilo Inn, Bend, LLC
(the “Grantor”) that,
based on the provi-
sions of the Deed of
Trust and the loan
documents executed
in favor of RSS WF-
CM2015NXS4-OR
SIB, LLC, an Oregon
limited liability com-
pany (“Beneficiary”),
for Loan No. 30-
5010029, including
the promissory note
dated and effective
as of November 2,
2015 (“Note”), autho-
rize the foreclosure
of the Deed of Trust
and the sale of the
Property described
above, which un-
cured and continuing
defaults include but
are not necessarily
limited to the follow-
ing: 1. Grantor’s fail-
ure to pay to Benefi-
ciary, when and in
f
the full amounts due,
monthly installments
as set forth on the
Note secured by
said Deed of Trust.
Monthly installments
in the amount of
$61,046.17 include
principal and inter-
est. The Grantor
failed to make the
full amount of re-
quired principal and
interest
payments
under the Note due
on September 5,
2018, and for each
month
thereafter
through and includ-
ing March 5, 2020.
During the foregoing
time period, Grantor
made partial month-
ly
payments
or
non-default contract
principal and interest
payments from time
to time which have
been credited to the
indebtedness
evi-
denced by the Note.
Late charges, prop-
erty protection ad-
vances, special ser-
vicing fees, workout
fees,
taxes,
re-
serves,
insurance
and other charges
through March 5,
2020,
total
$1,423,374.53. De-
fault Interest from
September 5, 2018,
due as of (i.e.,
through and includ-
ing) February 28,
2020, is in the
amount
of
$713,341.32. In ad-
dition, Beneficiary is
owed prior default
interest of $77,611.67.
Default interest per
diem is $1,323.33.
In addition to the
foregoing, Grantor
failed to make the
monthly installment
payment under the
Note due January 5,
2021.
ALL
AMOUNTS are now
due and payable
along with all costs
and fees associated
with this foreclosure.
2. Additional defaults
include Grantor’s: (i)
allowing three City of
Bend liens to attach
to the property in the
amounts
of
$168,985.41 (Lien
#7414), $285,050.00
(Lien #7425), and
(Lien
$174,241.10
#7426); (ii) failure to
pay the Deschutes
County 2019/20 per-
sonal property taxes
when due in the total
amount
of
$13,897.95; (iii) al-
lowing a Personal
Property Tax War-
rant No. 2020-499
issued by Deschutes
County, Oregon to
attach to the proper-
ty for unpaid person-
al property taxes, in-
terest
and
surcharges in the
amount
of
$
( )
$15,603.31; and (iv)
failure to pay the De-
schutes
County
2020/2021 property
taxes when due in
the total amount of
$13,595.21. TOTAL
UNCURED MONE-
TARY (PAYMENT)
DEFAULT: By rea-
son of said uncured
and continuing de-
faults, the Beneficia-
ry has accelerated
and declared all
sums owing on the
obligation secured
by the Deed of Trust
and the Property im-
mediately due and
payable. The sums
due and payable (ex-
clusive of the Emer-
gency
Period
Amounts as defined
below) being the fol-
lowing: Unpaid prin-
cipal and interest
due and owing un-
der the Note as of
March
5,
2020:
$183,138.51. Unpaid
Default Rate interest
owing under the
Note as of March 5,
2020: $713,341.32.
Late
Fees:
$139,739.33. Prior
Default
Interest:
$77,611.67. Property
Protection Advances
including attorneys’
fees and costs paid
through January 31,
2020, costs of fore-
closure, consultants
and inspection fees:
$278,065.20. Taxes,
Reserves,
Insur-
ance,
Deposits:
$809,408.50. Spe-
cial Servicing Fees:
$72,683.33. Workout
Fees: $112,209.51.
Payoff
Fee:
$3,950.00. Interest
on
Advances:
$7,318.66. Subtotal:
$2,397,466.03. Un-
paid principal and
interest payable on
March 5, 2020, due
and owing under the
Note for March 1,
2020 to March 31,
2020:
$61,046.17.
Unpaid principal and
interest payable Jan-
uary 5, 2021, due
and owing under the
Note for January 1,
2021 to January 31,
2021:
$61,046.17.
Unpaid Default Rate
interest owing under
the Note for or Janu-
ary 1, 2021 to Janu-
ary
31,
2021:
46,865.59. Special
Servicing Fee – Jan-
uary
2021:
$3,500.00. Workout
Fee – January 2021:
$610.46.
TOTAL
DUE: $2,570,534.42.
Accordingly,
the
amount necessary
to effect a statutory
cure of the Deed of
Trust under ORS
86.778,
is
$2,570,534.42 as of
January 31, 2021,
together with interest
accruing on the prin-
cipal portion of that
amount, plus addi-
tional costs and ex-
penses incurred by
Beneficiary and/or
the Successor Trust-
ee (including their
respective attorney’s
fees, costs, and ex-
penses). In addition,
Grantor failed to
make and is respon-
sible for all missed
payments
and
amounts
accruing
under the Note and
the governing loan
documents
from
March 8, 2020, to
December 31, 2021
(the “Emergency Pe-
riod”) established by
HB 4204 (the “Emer-
gency
Period
Amounts”). These
Emergency Period
Amounts are not in-
cluded in the above
total which details
the amount neces-
sary to cure the de-
faults and cause the
discontinuance
of
the trustee’s sale in
accordance
with
ORS 86.778. To the
extent that HB 4204
is not invalidated or
ruled unenforceable
in whole or in part by
a court of competent
jurisdiction the fol-
lowing Emergency
Period
Amounts
shall be due at the
scheduled or antici-
pated date on which
full performance of
the obligation is due:
Unpaid principal and
interest due and ow-
ing under the Note
from April 5, 2020 to
December 31, 2020:
$488,369.36.
Un-
paid Default Rate in-
terest owing under
the Note from March
5, 2020 to December
31,
2020:
$369,056.68
(For
ease of reporting,
March default inter-
est accruing from
March
1,
2020
through March 7,
2020, has been in-
cluded in the de-
ferred
Emergency
Period
Amounts.)
Late
Fees:
$48,393.17. Proper-
ty Protection Ad-
vances including at-
torneys’ fees and
costs paid from
March
8,
2020
through December
31, 2020, costs of
foreclosure, consul-
tants and inspection
fees:
$53,695.30.
Taxes, Reserves, In-
surance, Deposits:
$442,163.71. Special
Servicing
Fees:
$31,500.00
(For
ease of reporting,
March special ser-
vicing fees accruing
from March 1, 2020
through March 7,
2020, have been in-
cluded in the de-
ferred
Emergency
Period Amounts.) In-
terest on Advances
(March 8, 2020
through December
31,
2020):
$11,343.23. TOTAL
EMERGENCY PE-
RIOD
AMOUNTS
DEFERRED
PER
HB
4204:
$ 1 , 4 4 4 , 5 2 1. 4 5 .
ELECTION
TO
SELL: Notice is
hereby given that the
Beneficiary, by rea-
son of the uncured
and continuing de-
faults
described
above, has elected
and does hereby
elect to foreclose
said Deed of Trust by
advertisement and
sale pursuant to
ORS 86.752 et seq.,
and to cause to be
sold at public auction
to the highest bidder
for cash, the Grant-
or’s interest in the
subject
Property,
which the Grantor
had, or had the pow-
er to convey, at the
time the Grantor ex-
ecuted the Deed of
Trust in favor of the
Beneficiary,
along
with any interest the
Grantor or the Grant-
or’s successors in
interest acquired af-
ter the execution of
the Deed of Trust, to
satisfy the obliga-
tions secured by the
Deed of Trust as well
as the expenses of
the sale, including
compensation of the
Trustee as provided
by law, and the rea-
sonable fees of
Trustee’s attorneys.
PLEASE TAKE NO-
TICE that the sale
will be held at the
hour of 11:00 a.m., in
accordance with the
standard of time es-
tablished by ORS
187.110, on Friday,
March 26, 2021, on
the front steps of the
main entrance to the
Deschutes County
Courthouse, at 1100
NW Bond, Bend, OR
97701. RIGHT OF
REINSTATEMENT:
Notice is further giv-
en that any person
named
in
ORS
86.778 has the right,
at any time prior to
five (5) days before
the date last set for
the sale, to have this
foreclosure proceed-
ing dismissed and
the Deed of Trust re-
instated by (A) pay-
ment to the Benefi-
ciary of the entire
amount then due,
other than such por-
tion of the principal
as would not then be
due had no default
occurred, together
with the costs and
expenses
actually
f