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A2 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2021 The Bulletin How to reach us CIRCULATION Didn’t receive your paper? Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday and holidays LOCAL, STATE & NATION DESCHUTES COUNTY COVID-19 data for Monday, May 31: Deschutes County cases: 9,666 (17 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 79 (zero new deaths) Crook County cases: 1,201 (zero new cases) Crook County deaths: 22 (zero new deaths) Jefferson County cases: 2,312 (zero new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths) Oregon cases: 201,475 (220 new cases) Oregon deaths: 2,671 (3 new deaths) 129 new cases (Jan. 1) 103 new cases (April 23) 120 110 100 90 74 new cases 80 (April 10) 50 new cases 70 60 (Feb. 17) 50 (Nov. 14) (Oct. 31) 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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They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. When adjusted for vaccinations, U.S. case and death rates remain high Average new daily cases per 100,000 residents Rate, all residents Rate adjusted for vaccinations WASHINGTON Street .............. 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive Suite 200 Bend, OR 97702 Mailing ........... P.O. Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 The unseen risk for unvaccinated people Lottery results can now be found on the second page of Sports. BY DAN KEATING AND LESLIE SHAPIRO The Washington Post The country’s declining COVID-19 case rates pres- ent an unrealistically optimistic perspective for half of the nation — the half that is still not vaccinated. As more people receive vaccines, COVID-19 cases are occurring mostly in the increasingly narrow slice of the unprotected population. So The Washington Post adjusted its case, death and hospitalization rates to account for that — and found that in some places, the virus continues to rage among those who haven’t received a shot. The rosy national figures showing declining case numbers led the Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention to loosen mask recommendations recently and President Joe Biden to advise people to take off their masks and smile. But adjustments for vaccinations show the rate among susceptible, unvaccinated people is 73% higher than the standard figures being publicized. With that adjustment, the national death rate is roughly the same as it was two months ago and is barely inching down. The adjusted hospitalization rate is as high as it was three months ago. The case rate is still declining after the adjustment. Unvaccinated people are getting the wrong mes- sage, experts said. “They think it’s safe to take off the mask. It’s not,” said Lynn Goldman, dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. “It looks like fewer numbers, looks like it’s getting better, but it’s not necessarily better for those who aren’t vaccinated.” States with high case rates The adjusted rates in several states show the pan- demic is spreading as fast among the unvaccinated as it did during the winter surge. Maine, Colo- rado, Rhode Island and Washington state all have COVID-19 case spikes among the unvaccinated, with adjusted rates about double the adjusted national rate. The adjusted rates of Wyoming, West Virginia, Ore- gon, Florida, Michigan and Pennsylvania are slightly lower than the highest states. Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia have adjusted rates below the national average. Before vaccines, Black people were about one third of new COVID-19 patients in Maryland and half in D.C. In COLORADO 60 60 40 May 5 40 Jan. 26 20 0 Adjusted U.S. rate 20 Dec. 14 May 26 0 Dec. 14 May 26 MAINE OREGON 60 60 40 40 May 10 May 12 20 0 20 Dec. 14 May 26 0 Dec. 14 May 26 The Washington Post the latest data, Black people are just under half of the new cases in Maryland and more than 80% in D.C. Oregon’s current surge is driven in part by a COVID-19 variant known as B.1.1.7, which is 50% more contagious, said Tom Jeanne, a deputy state epide- miologist and a senior health adviser, in an interview. It is characterized by outbreaks traced to social gatherings with unvaccinated people and no masks. “They’re at very high risk for infection,” Jeanne said. Washington state officials say they are caught be- tween applauding the optimism that comes with vac- cination and warning everyone who isn’t vaccinated that it’s still dangerous. “Things are getting safer for those who are vacci- nated,” the state’s secretary of health, Umair A. Shah, told the Post. “For those who are unvaccinated, they remain at risk. We have to make sure that nuanced message is getting to our community.” States with high death rates In addition to cases, several states still have rela- tively high death rates. Coronavirus vaccines are virtually perfect in pre- venting deaths, so the decline in deaths nationally hides the steady COVID-19 death rate among unvac- cinated people. Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maine, Florida and Illinois all have adjusted death rates about 50% higher than the national adjusted rate. Looking at the death rate is not a good measure of the current spread of the pandemic, experts said, be- cause it is a “lagging indicator” — people dying are usually infected at least a month earlier, which means deaths don’t reflect current community spread of the disease. The steady adjusted death rate, however, shows that unvaccinated people are not yet getting safer. More likely to end up in the hospital Experts often point to hospitalization rates as a critical measure of the pandemic, because they re- flect people getting very sick and aren’t dependent on how much coronavirus testing a community is doing. When current hospitalizations are spread across only the unvaccinated population, Washington, D.C., and Michigan have rates about twice as high as the ad- justed national rate. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida and Rhode Island have rates about 50% higher than the adjusted national hospitalization rate. Tale of two societies Washington state has been publicizing the extreme threat of hospitalization for unvaccinated people. It said unvaccinated seniors are 11 times as likely to get hospitalized than seniors who got the shot. For unvac- cinated people age 45 to 64, the chance of COVID-19 hospitalization is 18 times higher. Shah, the state secretary of health, worries people are being left behind while others feel the pandemic is past. “I hope this does not become a tale of two societies,” he said. “The people who are vaccinated and are pro- tected can resume their lives, taking off their masks. “The people who are not vaccinated are the ones who are not wearing a mask or washing their hands. Those are the very people who often times will socialize and be around similar like-minded people. You’re going to have the pandemic continue in those clusters.” About this report The Post adjusted COVID-19 rates for cases, deaths and hospitalization over time by combining CDC data on cases, hospitalization and vaccinations. The Post used a rolling seven-day average of daily cases, deaths and hospitalization. For vaccination, the Post used the number of people who had received at least one shot as of each date. LOCAL & STATE BRIEFING Bend man arrested after two-county crime spree him we wanted our tip money back. We work hard for that.” The man drove off toward Crook County sheriff’s Prineville with the gas cap re- deputies arrested a man who moved from his vehicle, Clark allegedly stole a bicycle and said. pickup, drove people off the After leaving the store, the road and stole cash from a tip man drove through a fence to jar at the Powell Butte County get around a locked gate, the Store on Saturday. sheriff’s report said. At a ranch Jacob Austin Schunke, 42, of in Powell Butte, the man al- Bend, faces charges of legedly burglarized the theft, burglary, crimi- ranch and rammed a nal mischief, criminal building to gain access trespass and reckless to the contents of the driving, according to building, the sheriff’s a Crook County Sher- department said. iff’s Office statement. After two high The sheriff’s office speed chases with Schunke said the crime spree Prineville Police and began with the theft the Crook County of a bicycle and then a Ford Sheriff’s Office on Highway pickup in the early morning 126, near the roundabout on hours Saturday in Bend, then Tom McCall Road and later continued in Redmond and on SW Williams Road, dep- ended in Crook County. The uties arrested Schunke about sheriff’s office said that while 12:32 p.m. after he crashed on state Highway 126 in Crook the truck at the dead end of County, a driver was reported Wampler Lane, officials said. to be running people off the “It could have been a lot road before stopping at the worse,” said Clark, who has Powell Butte Country Store. worked at the store for two Anna Clark, a shift manager years. “We had customers in at the Powell Butte store, was in the store. He could have had a the back room when a man en- gun or something.” tered the store and tried to pay for items. She said he had tried Climber dies after fall to get gas as well, but the hose at Mount Hood on Sunday wouldn’t reach around to his A 63-year-old man died gas tank. He then grabbed the money from the tip jar and left Sunday morning after fall- ing 500 feet while descending the store. Mount Hood, the Clackamas “All I heard is that he stole County Sheriff’s Office re- our tip money,” Clark said on Monday. “I ran outside and told ported. The man, whose name has not yet been released, had been climbing with his adult son when he fell at the 10,500-foot level on the Old Chute Route, deputies said. Rescue teams navigated what deputies said was a diffi- cult terrain and hazards from hydrogen sulfide and other toxic gases venting from fuma- roles along the route as they made their way to the accident scene. They saw the fallen climber, who was unmoving, then made their way down to the fallen climber by setting up rope sys- tems. The man was dead when rescuers reached him. Teams loaded the body onto a skiable rescue litter basket. At 4:20 p.m., they be- gan making their way down the mountain to Timberline Lodge. The climber’s name will be released after his family is noti- fied, deputies said. — Bulletin staff and wire reports
