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DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Saturday, April 24:
Deschutes County cases: 7,551 (82 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 73 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 931 (8 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 19 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,094 (3 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 32 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 179,930 (830 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,484 (8 new deaths)
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GRAPHIC
129 new cases
130
(Dec. 4)
What is COVID-19? A disease caused by a coronavirus.
Symptoms (including fever and shortness of breath) can
be severe, even fatal, though some cases are mild.
108 new cases
(Jan. 1)
90
new
cases
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
6 feet from others and wear a face covering or mask.
5. Cover a sneeze with a tissue or cough into your elbow.
6. Clean frequently touched objects and surfaces.
120
7-day
average
103 new cases
(April 23)
110
100
(Nov. 27)
90
80
50
new
cases
(Feb. 17)
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INFORMATION
47 new cases
70
60
47 new cases
(April 8)
50
(Nov. 14)
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16 new cases
(July 16)
30
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
ONLINE
40
*State data
unavailable
for Jan. 31
31 new cases
28 new cases
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
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
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Family calls for special prosecutor
Associated Press
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PORTLAND | MAN KILLED BY POLICE
Lottery results can now be found on
the second page of Sports.
PORTLAND — The fam-
ily of the man fatally shot by a
Portland police officer is call-
ing on the governor and state
attorney general to appoint a
special prosecutor to do an in-
dependent investigation of the
incident.
Robert Delgado was shot
April 16 by Officer Zach-
ary DeLong at Lents Park in
Southeast Portland.
His children and other rel-
atives gathered Friday at the
Portland law offices of their at-
torney, J. Ashlee Albies.
The family recognizes that
we don’t know everything that
happened and that the inves-
tigation is still underway, Al-
bies said. But she said video of
the encounter and witness ac-
counts are “deeply disturbing
and alarming.”
“We see that Robert is hav-
ing a mental health crisis,” she
said. “He is clearly struggling
to keep his composure and we
hear the way that the police
were responding.”
A 911 caller reported that
a man in the park was doing
quick-draws with a gun but
not pointing it at anyone, ac-
cording to the Police Bureau.
DeLong got there and radioed
that Delgado wasn’t following
police commands. Minutes
later, DeLong fired at Delgado
from behind a tree about 90
feet away.
Police recovered a replica
handgun with an orange tip on
it and a magazine to the gun
that Delgado had. Police pho-
tographed the gun in the grass
but did not say exactly where
it was.
Delgado suffered from anx-
iety and depression and had
been living outside and “couch
surfing,” according to his fam-
ily and court records. His sister
said he struggled with sub-
stance abuse addiction.
Delgado is survived by four
grown children .
Speaking on the family’s
behalf, Albies said a special
prosecutor would ensure an
independent review of the
shooting.
Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPB
Kennedy Garrett, 24, center, speaks about her father, Robert Delgado,
during a Friday press conference held by his family. Delgado was killed
by Portland Police in Lents Park earlier in the month.
Pacific Northwest Ranchers want relief from imports
blood shortage
prompts ‘code red’
BY CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
BY MARTÍN BILBAO
The Olympian (Wash.)
Hospitals and trauma cen-
ters are in dire need of donated
blood, according to the pri-
mary blood provider in the Pa-
cific Northwest.
Seattle-based Bloodworks
Northwest declared a “Code
Red” alert Friday in response
to a three-week-long blood
shortage. The blood provider
says it now has less than a 24-
hour supply, far less than the
four-day inventory it needs.
As of Friday, donations are
short 700 units a week com-
pared to the need, according to
a news release. About 35,000
donors would need to fill ap-
pointments by Memorial Day
and 78,000 by Independence
Day to meet the demand,
Bloodworks says.
The dearth of supply means
Bloodworks cannot keep hos-
pital inventories full, Vicki Fin-
son of Blood Services said in
the release. Bloodworks serves
90 hospitals in Western Wash-
ington and Oregon.
“Blood is being shipped to
hospitals faster than it’s being
collected,” Finson said. “We’re
actively communicating with
hospitals to conserve blood
and appealing to donors to
book appointments so that
doctors don’t need to make
difficult decisions like cancel-
ing surgeries or postponing
treatments based on the blood
supply.”
Residents can book appoint-
ments to donate blood every
56 days, the release says. No-
tably, there is no waiting pe-
riod before giving blood after
receiving a COVID-19 vacci-
nation.
Due to the pandemic,
Bloodworks is no longer ac-
cepting walk-ins. A related is-
sue is contributing to the short-
age: The appointment no-show
rate is the worst Bloodworks
has seen since shortly after the
pandemic began.
Appointments are required
to accommodate a fixed num-
ber of donations per day, ac-
cording to the news release. So
people who fail to show up to
their appointments, without
canceling first, can impact the
ability to collect enough blood.
If residents cannot make
their scheduled appointments,
they should cancel them so
others can fill them, Finson
said in the release.
“Maintaining a safe and reli-
able blood supply is critical to
public health and the ability of
trauma centers to respond to
emergencies,” said Bloodworks
Northwest President and CEO
Curt Bailey. “The community
must immediately prioritize
donating blood for the health
of local patients, including
individuals with cancer and
other life-threatening diseases.”
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Thelma’s Place:
In anticipation of a summit between U.S.
Trade Representative Katherine Tai and her
counterparts from Mexico and Canada, 18
ranching groups sent a letter to Tai and USDA
Secretary Tom Vilsack seeking immediate re-
lief from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
The ranchers contend USMCA and its pre-
decessor, the North American Free Trade
Agreement, have “severely weakened” the U.S.
cattle supply chain and harmed producers.
The letter states that since 2014 U.S. imports
of Mexican and Canadian cattle and beef have
averaged $4.4 billion a year while U.S. exports
of the same products to those countries have
averaged less than $2 billion a year.
On a volume basis, the U.S. has imported
an average of 2.7 billion pounds of Mexican
and Canadian cattle and beef annually and ex-
ported less than 1 billion pounds of the same
product per year, the letter states.
“The U.S. live cattle supply chain — con-
sisting of America’s three-quarters of a million
family cattle farmers and ranchers — cannot
be expected to prosper when multinational
beef packers, processors and importers contin-
ually source greater quantities of undifferenti-
ated beef and cattle from Mexico and Canada,”
the ranchers said.
Those imports are direct substitutes for U.S.
cattle and beef and act to leverage down do-
mestic cattle prices, they said, adding that the
Agri Beef via Capital Press
Livestock groups have written to the U.S. trade
representative and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vil-
sack voicing concerns about the cattle trade imbal-
ance between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico.
benefits to multinational companies come at
considerable expense to U.S cattle producers.
“United States cattle producers are being
deprived the opportunity to expand produc-
tion, or even to remain profitable in the face of
increasing domestic beef demand, increasing
beef consumption and increasing wholesale
and retail beef prices,” the ranchers said.
“As a direct result, U.S. cattle producers, their
domestic live cattle supply chain and the rural
communities they support are being irrepara-
bly harmed,” they said.
The letter also points out that following last
year’s outbreak of COVID-19, U.S. cattle pro-
ducers couldn’t get a bid for their cattle from
beef packers for as long as seven weeks.
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