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COVID-19 data for Thursday, March 11:
Deschutes County cases: 6,089 (23 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 66 (1 new death)
Crook County cases: 786 (2 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 1,988 (2 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 30 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 158,644 (367 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,316 (11 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized
at St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 8 (2 in ICU)
129 new cases
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.
130
(Dec. 4)
108 new cases
120
(Jan. 1)
90
new
cases
110
*No data
available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
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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.
50
new
cases
90
70
60
50
(Nov. 14)
7-day
average
40
31 new cases
28 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(July 16)
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
100
80
47 new cases
9 new cases
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With ‘big one’ coming, quake
alert system launches in Oregon
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SALEM — People in Ore-
gon will be better prepared for
earthquakes — particularly
important in the Pacific North-
west because experts say “the
big one” is coming — as an
early warning system launched
Thursday, the 10th anniversary
of a devastating quake and tsu-
nami in Japan.
California already has the
system, while Washington state
will join in May to complete
coverage of the West Coast. The
ShakeAlert system operated by
the U.S. Geological Survey uses
seismographic sensors to detect
significant earthquakes quickly
so alerts reach smartphones
and people can seek cover be-
fore the shaking starts.
“It’s very important that (the
three states) are all partners
in ShakeAlert, because earth-
quakes don’t respect geographic
boundaries, and we have huge
population centers all across the
West Coast where earthquake
risk is the highest in the contig-
uous U.S.,” said Gabriel Lotto,
ShakeAlert user engagement
facilitator for the Pacific North-
west Seismic Network.
Earthquakes in the Cascadia
subduction zone, which ex-
tends from the ocean off North-
ern California to Canada’s Van-
couver Island, have an average
magnitude of around 9, making
them among the world’s big-
gest.
A quake in that zone has a
37% probability of happening
off Oregon in the next 50 years,
with a slightly lower chance of
one striking near Washington
state, according to Chris Gold-
finger, an Oregon State Univer-
sity professor and earthquake
geologist.
“When a Cascadia event
happens, the critical seconds
of notice ShakeAlert warnings
provide will save lives and re-
duce damage to important life-
Richard Vogel/AP file
An earthquake early warning system operated by the U.S. Geological
Survey was activated Thursday in Oregon on the 10th anniversary of the
devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. California already has the
system. Washington state joins it in May, which will complete coverage
of the West Coast of the contiguous United States.
line systems,” Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown said.
The system cannot predict an
earthquake but can give people
a jump on seeking cover from
falling objects and time to brace
themselves.
When an earthquake is de-
tected, people who have alerts
activated on their smartphones
will get a message saying,
“Earthquake detected! Drop,
cover, hold on. Protect your-
self.” Mobile apps also carry the
alerts.
Jenny Crayne of the Oregon
Museum of Science and Indus-
try told reporters Wednesday
that the system works by de-
tecting an initial wave sent out
by an earthquake.
“The P wave is first and fast.
It travels out and ahead of the
S wave, and it is not producing
the shaking,” Crayne said. “The
S wave is slower and second,
and it’s the one that produces
the real shaking and damage
that you experience during an
earthquake.”
The system’s sensors can rap-
idly detect that initial P wave
and send that data to a process-
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Portland pays $2.1 million
in police shooting of teen
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Portland
will pay more than $2 million
to settle a wrongful death law-
suit arising from the police kill-
ing of a Black teenager in 2017,
but family members of Quan-
ice Hayes say they are still upset
that the officer who pulled the
trigger was not disciplined.
City commissioners apolo-
gized to the 17-year-old’s fam-
ily on Wednesday before ap-
proving the settlement during
a City Council meeting. Hayes’
death sparked protests in 2017
and was among those fre-
quently cited by protesters who
demonstrated against police
brutality and racial injustice in
Portland for months last sum-
mer.
A Multnomah County grand
jury found no criminal wrong-
doing by Officer Andrew
Hearst, who fired three shots at
Hayes on Feb. 9, 2017, while in-
vestigating an armed robbery.
According to previously re-
leased investigations, police
discovered Hayes in an alcove
in front of a home and ordered
him to keep his hands up and
crawl on the driveway toward
officers. When Hayes appeared
to reach toward his waistband,
Hearst said he fired, killing
Hayes.
Officers found a fake airsoft
pistol in a flowerbed about 18
inches away from Hayes, ac-
cording to court records.
The lawyer for Hayes’ family,
J. Ashlee Albies, called on the
city this week to make mean-
ingful changes so another Black
teenager doesn’t die by police
hands.
“There was no accountabil-
ity,” said Steven Hayes, Quanice
Hayes’ uncle, according to The
Oregonian.
The family’s lawyers hired
forensic biomechanical engi-
neer Jesse L. Wobrock, who re-
viewed Hayes’ wounds and the
paths of the three bullets that
hit him.
Wobrock found that Hayes
was on his knees, his head and
neck bent forward and his
torso leaning slightly forward
to comply with officer orders
to “go down to his face” when
Hearst fired the shots.
Hayes likely moved his hand
to the ground to help him lie
prone, Wobrock’s opinion said.
ing center, where algorithms
can determine and estimate
the geographical extent of the
earthquake, the magnitude and
the expected shaking intensity
in different areas, Crayne said.
If an area is expected to expe-
rience significant shaking, peo-
ple there will receive an alert.
But those at or very close to the
epicenter of the quake won’t
receive the warning in time
because the waves will be too
close together.
ShakeAlert can also slow
trains to reduce derailments,
open firehouse doors so they
don’t jam shut and protect wa-
ter systems with automatic
shutoffs.
Installing early-warning
shutoffs to things like electrical
utilities and wastewater systems
also are being considered, said
Robert de Groot of the U.S.
Geological Survey in Pasadena,
California.
In action in California, an
alert was sent to some 2.5 mil-
lion people as a magnitude 4.5
earthquake struck the Los An-
geles suburb of El Monte last
September, de Groot said.
LOCAL BRIEFING
Redmond man charged
with 21 felony sex crimes
first-degree acts of rape, sod-
omy and sex abuse, as well as
incest, from June 2014 until
A Redmond man faces
Feb. 1.
21 felony child sex
Whitelaw was
abuse counts involv-
arrested Feb. 10
ing the same alleged
on suspicion of 12
victim.
charges, but a grand
Thomas
jury approved a new
Whitelaw, 34, ap-
charging document
peared Thursday in
with additional
Deschutes County
charges earlier this
Whitelaw
Circuit Court to
month. He’s sched-
be arraigned on
uled to enter a plea
an amended indictment re-
May 11.
cently approved by a grand
Whitelaw is represented by
attorney Karla Nash.
jury. The indictment al-
leges Whitelaw committed
— Bulletin staff report
Southern Oregon man faces
federal kidnapping charge
Associated Press
MEDFORD — A South-
ern Oregon man faces a new
federal charge accusing him
of forcing a man across state
lines for ransom last year. The
kidnapping sparked a North-
ern California police chase in
which an officer held onto the
side of a moving vehicle until
the suspect pulled over, au-
thorities said.
David Brian Scott, 46, was
charged Monday in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Medford with
kidnapping. He is accused of
forcing a 30-year-old man to
travel into California in an
attempt to collect a disputed
$25,000 debt, according to an
FBI affidavit.
On Sept. 5, Scott made con-
tact with the victim at a Med-
ford warehouse by pretending
to have car trouble and asking
the victim to fill a jug of wa-
ter for his vehicle, according
to statements the victim and
other witnesses gave the FBI.
Scott then used a Taser on the
victim and poured water on
him, the affidavit says.
Scott said he was there to
collect $25,000 owed to an-
other person and forced the
victim into the passenger seat
of his Chevrolet Avalanche,
according to court docu-
ments.
The victim made contact
with friends in Yuba City, Cal-
ifornia, and told them that he
had been kidnapped, docu-
ments said. Scott then called
the victim’s friend and made
threats to kill the victim, ac-
cording to a witness. One
friend worked to gather the
$25,000 ransom, while an-
other friend called police.
The victim was safely re-
leased that afternoon at a Red
Bluff, California, Starbucks.
After the exchange, however,
a Red Bluff police sergeant
initiated a traffic stop on the
Avalanche.
The police officer was at the
driver’s-side window when
Scott drove away with the of-
ficer standing on the running
boards, according to a release
from the Red Bluff Police De-
partment and the FBI affidavit.
When Scott neared an In-
terstate 5 on-ramp, the police
sergeant ordered Scott at gun-
point to stop the vehicle. Scott
complied, ran away and was
arrested.
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