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LOCAL, STATE & REGION
DESCHUTES COUNTY
COVID-19 data for Wednesday, May 26:
Deschutes County cases: 9,525 (38 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 78 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,191 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,286 (4 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 37 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 199,784 (399 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,639 (11 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Wednesday: 42 (6 in ICU)
New COVID-19 cases per day
129 new cases
(April 23)
100
(Nov. 27)
90
74 new cases
80
(April 10)
50
new
cases
70
60
50
(Nov. 14)
(July 16)
40
*State data
unavailable
for Jan. 31
31 new cases
(Oct. 31)
16 new cases
30
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
EMAIL
110
103 new cases
(Feb. 17)
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120
7-day
average
47 new cases
28 new cases
ONLINE
90
new
cases
130
(April 29)
108 new cases
(Jan. 1)
BULLETIN
GRAPHIC
125 new cases
(Dec. 4)
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about the COVID-19
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
20
(May 20)
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(March 11)
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LOCAL BRIEFING
KLAMATH IRRIGATION DISPUTE
Bundy-linked farmers buy
land for camp near shut canal
Associated Press
KLAMATH FALLS — Two
farmers with ties to anti-gov-
ernment activist Ammon
Bundy have purchased land by
a shut-off irrigation canal in
Oregon that would normally
deliver water to a massive fed-
eral irrigation project along the
California-Oregon border and
have set up a protest encamp-
ment there .
The move comes after fed-
eral regulators shut off all wa-
ter deliveries from the project’s
main “A Canal” due to extreme
drought and the need to bal-
ance the water demands of
farmers with threatened and
endangered fish species in
the Upper Klamath Lake and
Klamath River.
The last time water was
substantially cut off to farm-
ers, in 2001, demonstrators
forced open the canal’s head
gates three times before federal
marshals arrived and stayed
all summer. They also held a
“bucket brigade” that attracted
national media attention and
stirred calls by some in the Re-
publican Party for a re exam-
ination of the Endangered Spe-
cies Act.
The two men who pur-
chased the land near the canal,
Dan Nielsen and Grant Knoll,
have set up an information
center at the site along with
local members of the Ore-
gon chapter of People’s Rights
Network, a group founded by
Bundy last year .
The group first orga-
nized in Idaho in response to
COVID-19 mask rules and
other government-mandated
safety regulations and has
grown in its scope. Bundy, who
was acquitted for his role in a
42-day armed standoff with
the U.S. government in 2016 at
the Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge in southeast Oregon, is
also running for Idaho gover-
nor in 2022.
Nielsen and Knoll are both
landowners who receive irri-
gation water from the project.
Knoll is also a member of the
Klamath Irrigation District
board of directors, which over-
sees a majority of Klamath
Project land.
Nielsen said he and Knoll
decided to buy the property
so they have a place to gather
where they can’t be “run off”
by the federal government.
A demonstration is planned
for Thursday.
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Oregon discloses huge surge
in wasted COVID-19 vaccines
The Oregonian
More than half of all Or-
egonians are now at least
partially vaccinated against
COVID-19. But demand has
slowed in recent weeks, and
that’s apparently playing a
role in the growing number of
wasted doses reported by state
health officials.
On Tuesday, the Oregon
Health Authority reported
9,090 vaccine doses have now
been wasted, spoiled or ex-
pired since December. That’s
more than double the total
disclosed last week, which
stood at 4,418, and it’s more
than quadruple the 1,922 re-
ported three weeks ago.
For context, Oregon
through May 4 had reported
administering nearly 3.1 mil-
lion doses of vaccine, mean-
ing just 0.06% of doses had
been wasted, spoiled or ex-
pired.
But since then, Oregon
has reported administering
719,665 doses against 7,168
that have been wasted, ac-
cording to calculations of state
data by The Oregonian.
That means that for every
100 doses recently admin-
istered, one dose has been
wasted — a far higher rate
than during the first five
months of vaccinations.
Tim Heider, a spokesman
for OHA, said in an email that
wastage “may increase as the
vaccine rollout continues.” He
said that’s because vial sizes
for some vaccines have in-
creased, those vials may be
opened without every dose
being used, and more provid-
ers, including smaller sites, are
now receiving vaccines.
Heider’s response matches
wording from a Centers for
Disease Control and Preven-
tion document written last
week, which he did not attri-
bute to the CDC.
“CDC and our partners are
doing everything possible to
minimize the amount of vac-
cine that goes unused,” the
federal document reads.
“We recognize that as we
continue to create more op-
portunities to vaccinate more
people, it may increase the
likelihood of leaving unused
doses in a vial,” the CDC
document also said. “While
we want to continue to fol-
low best practices to use ev-
ery dose possible, we do not
want that to be at the expense
of missing an opportunity to
vaccinate every eligible per-
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son when they are ready to
get vaccinated.”
OHA began regularly dis-
closing wasted doses in early
April, when only 656 doses
had been wasted compared to
more than 2 million admin-
istered.
“We believe that our health
system partners are managing
their vaccine responsibly and
doing everything that they
can to minimize waste,” the
agency’s chief financial officer,
Dave Baden, said in an April 7
statement.
“At this point, considering
the logistical complexity of
operating large-scale vacci-
nation programs, the small
amount of wasted vaccine in
Oregon is expected and not
surprising,” he added. “This
amount is a small fraction of
the more than 2 million doses
that have been safely deliv-
ered, managed and injected in
the arms of Oregonians.”
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A U.S. Forest Service equipment operator checks the blades on a
mower attachment hooked to a tractor.
Forest Service plans
mowing operations
Hikers, bikers and others
in the Deschutes National
Forest west of Bend will need
to be mindful of heavy equip-
ment operating in the area as
the U.S. Forest Service con-
ducts mowing operations.
The mowing will occur
on approximately 740 acres
of land east of Forest Road
41 from behind the Seventh
Mountain Resort property,
continuing along areas adja-
cent to the Deschutes River.
Mowing reduces brush
that can ignite the forest can-
opy in areas where wildfire
occurs. Mowed areas help
firefighters to contain wild-
fire and may reduce fire in-
tensity.
The mowing will take place
into much of the summer un-
less fire safety concerns arise,
according to a release from
the Forest Service.
The Forest Service advises
visitors to the area that mow-
ing can result in objects flying
from the equipment. Visitors
are encouraged to keep dis-
tance from mowing equip-
ment to avoid possible injury.
Former Deschutes County
man sentenced for abuse
A former Deschutes
County resident will serve
more than 14 years in prison
for sexually abusing a girl.
Daniel Uribe Sanchez, 34,
declined to speak at his sen-
tencing hearing Wednesday
in Deschutes County Circuit
Court. But his victim, now
22, spoke at length and de-
scribed a young life derailed
by often -daily abuse.
“It’s not easy to open these
wounds because all these
years have been about silence
— hiding these scars while
smiling,” she said. “As you all
may know, I was raped when
I was a little girl. I felt like I
didn’t have a voice to speak
up for me, all because of the
simple fear that no one would
believe me.”
Judge Alison Emerson
thanked the victim for her
statement
before issu-
ing the sen-
tence. She
said Uribe
Sanchez’s
conduct
was com-
Uribe Sanchez
pounded
by the close
family connection he shared
with the victim.
“Her pain is palpable,” she
told the defendant. “You can
see it in her body language
and hear it in her words.”
The judge agreed with the
conditions of the plea deal
negotiated with the state.
Upon release from prison,
Uribe Sanchez must serve
five years post-prison super-
vision, register as a sex of-
fender and have no contact
with the victim or her family.
The criminal case began in
October 2019, 10 years after
the first charged instance of
abuse. Uribe Sanchez was ini-
tially charged with 14 felony
sex crimes, including several
Measure 11 offenses pun-
ishable by lengthy automatic
prison terms. The maximum
penalty he could have re-
ceived was 25 years in prison.
In April, he pleaded guilty to
two counts of second-degree
sodomy and one of attempted
second-degree sodomy.
— Bulletin staff report