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DESCHUTES COUNTY
Deschutes County cases: 6,244 (21 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 70 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 799 (1 new case)
Crook County deaths: 18 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,005 (zero new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 31 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 162,806 (422 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,370 (2 new death)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles
Bend on Thursday: 1 in ICU
130
(Dec. 4)
What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus.
Symptoms (including fever, coughing and shortness of breath)
can be severe. While some cases are mild, the disease can be fatal.
108 new cases
120
(Jan. 1)
90
new
cases
7 ways to help limit its spread: 1. Wash hands often with soap
and water for 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.
110
*No data
available on
Jan. 31
due to state
computer
maintenence
(Nov. 27)
50
new
cases
90
70
60
(Feb. 17)
50
(Nov. 14)
7-day
average
28 new cases
(July 16)
40
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
100
80
47 new cases
9 new cases
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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Thursday, March 25:
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
10
(March 11)
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SAN FRANCISCO — The
endangered California con-
dor could return to the Pacific
Northwest for the first time in
100 years.
The U.S. Fish and Wild-
life Service plans to allow the
release of captive-bred giant
vultures into Redwood Na-
tional Park as early as this fall
to create a “nonessential exper-
imental population” for Cali-
fornia’s far north, Oregon and
northwestern Nevada, the San
Francisco Chronicle reported
Wednesday.
Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
San Francisco Chronicle
A California condor
takes flight in 2017
in the Ventana
Wilderness east of
Big Sur, California.
B
California condor could return to Northwest
The project will be headed
by the Yurok Tribe, which tra-
ditionally has considered the
California condor a sacred an-
imal and has been working for
years to return the species to
the tribe’s ancestral territory.
“Certainly within a year, we
hope to have birds in the sky,”
Tiana Williams-Claussen, di-
rector of the wildlife depart-
ment of the Yurok Tribe, told
the Chronicle.
The California condor is the
largest native North American
bird, with a wingspan of nearly
10 feet . The scavenger was
once widespread but had vir-
tually disappeared by the 1970s
because of poaching, lead poi-
soning from eating animals
killed by hunters and destruc-
tion of its habitat.
The Oregon Zoo operates
a California condor breeding
program at the Jonsson Center
for Wildlife Conservation in
rural Clackamas County.
The new initiative calls for
releasing four or six juvenile
condors each year for 20 years
throughout Redwood National
Park, which is about an hour’s
drive from the Oregon border.
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Oregon Health Authority
is monitoring 4 for Ebola
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
Four people in Oregon are
being monitored by the Ore-
gon Health Authority for pos-
sible exposure to the deadly
Ebola virus, state officials said
Thursday morning.
The four — whose identi-
ties, nationalities or current
locations have not been dis-
closed — have not tested pos-
itive for the virus or shown
symptoms, said Dr. Richard
Leman, an infectious disease
expert with the Oregon Health
Authority.
“There is low risk for peo-
ple in Oregon,” OHA said in a
statement.
OHA said it is following a
public health protocol to in-
form state residents when
someone who has been in an
area with a outbreak of a ma-
jor virus comes to or returns to
Oregon.
While Ebola and COVID-19
are viral infections, they differ
in how they spread and their
deadliness.
COVID-19 can spread rap-
idly through droplets in the
breath of an infected person.
The World Health Organiza-
tion reports COVID-19 has
a worldwide mortality rate
of about 3.4% of all those in-
fected. The nearly 2.75 million
COVID-19 deaths worldwide
are because of the rapid spread
that has caused 125 million in-
fections .
Ebola is spread through the
blood or body fluids of an in-
fected person exhibiting symp-
toms. That limits the spread of
the virus, but it is far deadlier
— an estimated 50% of those
infected die.
Medical workers and staff
Ebola is spread through the blood or body fluids of an
infected person exhibiting symptoms. That limits the spread
of the virus, but it is far deadlier — an estimated 50% of
those infected die. Medical workers and staff treating those
with Ebola are particularly at risk and can become ill from
patients, as well as from the vomit, feces or belongings of
those infected.
treating those with Ebola are
particularly at risk and can
become ill from patients, as
well as from the vomit, feces
or belongings of those in-
fected.
Ebola can be spread through
sex with an infected person.
Infections have also been re-
ported during the handling
of Ebola victims’ corpses
for burial and transmission
through the breast milk of in-
fected mothers.
Unlike COVID-19, someone
who is asymptomatic of Ebola
cannot spread the Ebola virus.
Leman said health authori-
ties need to balance the level of
possible threat to the general
public vs. the privacy of the in-
dividual who has been in an
outbreak zone but not shown
any symptoms.
Releasing more informa-
tion could generate unfounded
fears about the person or
their location, which Lehman
said would keep people from
self-reporting their presence
in the regions and staying in
touch with public health au-
thorities.
“It’s really a double-edged
sword,” Leman said.
Oregon has gone through
the Ebola reporting protocols
in 2014, 2015 and 2019, Leh-
man said.
No one in Oregon has be-
come infected with Ebola
during the prior periods.
The current alert came after
the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention an-
nounced a new outbreak in the
Democratic Republic of the
Congo and Guinea.
Lehman said people who
travel between Oregon and the
two countries could include
medical teams going to Africa
to aid in disease prevention,
religious missionaries, visitors
from the countries or residents
of Oregon who are from the
countries and are returning
home.
Though OHA would not say
where in Oregon the people
are located, their whereabouts
are known and local public
health officials are being in-
cluded in potential response
or care.
Lehman said Ebola usually
has an incubation period of
between two and 21 days and
that the four being monitored
are believed to be near the end
of that period.
When symptoms do arise,
they come on rapidly.
“It hits you like a ton of
bricks,” Leman said. “A fever,
very high, muscle aches, and
chills.”
gwarner@eomediagroup.com
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LOCAL BRIEFING
Boys & Girls Clubs plan
‘90s-themed fundraiser
Cue up your Smashing
Pumpkins CD and pull your
old flannel and Doc Martens
out of the closet: Boys & Girls
Clubs of Bend are holding a
’90s fundraising party.
On May 8, the Bend
branch of the national
youth-focused nonprofit will
host “House Party,” a virtual
fundraiser themed around
the ’90s, according to a Boys
& Girls Clubs press release.
Activities include an on-
line auction, a raffle, trivia, a
throwback photo contest and
gift bags with ‘90s gear, the
release stated.
Register for the event at
bgcbend.org/houseparty.
More than $13,000 worth
of tools stolen in Sisters
More than $13,000 in
equipment was stolen from
the Sisters Rental equipment
store Wednesday night, and
Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office deputies are searching
for two men.
Deputies went to the site
of the burglary Thursday
morning and were told two
men broke through the store’s
glass door and stole chain
saws and a concrete saw, ac-
cording to a sheriff’s office
news release.
The news release said au-
thorities are looking for two
Latino men in their late 20s
to early 30s, and states that
the pair allegedly drove a
newer white Honda Civic
with unknown license plates
to the scene. The two men
wore masks during the bur-
glary, the release states.
If you have information
about the burglary, deputies
are encouraging the public to
call the sheriff’s office at 541 -
693-6911.
— Bulletin staff reports
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