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129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Wednesday, June 23:
Deschutes County cases: 10,041 (14 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 82 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,294 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,375 (4 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 39 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 207,333 (233 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,759 (2 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Wednesday: 19 (5 in ICU)
EMAIL
100
June 10*
50
new
cases
*Jan. 31: No
data reported.
*June 10:
Number
includes several
days of data
due to a
reporting delay.
60
50
40
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(Sept. 19)
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
March 2020
90
70
31 new cases
9 new cases
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110
80
(Nov. 14)
(July 16)
74
new
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(April 10)
(Feb. 17)
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
120
(May 8)
7-day
average
(Nov. 27)
130
115 new
cases
(Jan. 1)
47 new cases
28 new cases
ONLINE
(April 29)
108 new cases
90
new
cases
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GRAPHIC
125 new cases
(Dec. 4)
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Legislature on
track to fund 4K
preschool slots
BY HILLARY BORRUD
The Oregonian
Oregon lawmakers plan
to spend more than $67 mil-
lion over the next two years to
significantly expand publicly
funded preschools, under a
bill moving forward in the fi-
nal days of the legislative ses-
sion.
The proposal would pay
for more than 4,000 new pre-
school slots in public and pri-
vate programs. It comes as
lawmakers speak of the im-
portance of high-quality early
childhood education to in-
terrupt the school-to-prison
pipeline and support mothers
who disproportionately exited
the workforce during the pan-
demic.
Although sizable, the poten-
tial expansion under Senate
Bill 5513 is roughly two-thirds
as large as Gov. Kate Brown
proposed for the two-year
budget that begins in July.
Brown called for more than
$100 million to add approxi-
mately 6,000 openings for pre-
school students.
On Tuesday, the governor’s
deputy communications di-
rector Charles Boyle described
the Legislature’s plan as a step
in the right direction.
“It’s critical that we make
investments now for our
working families and children,
particularly after a pandemic
that has disproportionately
impacted working families
from historically underserved
communities,” Boyle wrote in
an email. “This is a great start
that we will need to build on
in future years.”
Oregon only serves 30% of
the children and families who
are eligible for publicly funded
early childhood programs, ac-
cording to the education de-
partment.
Your chances of winning Oregon’s
vaccination jackpot? 1 in 2.2M
BY AIMEE GREEN
The Oregonian
What are the odds of win-
ning Oregon’s $1 million vac-
cination lottery drawing on
Monday? With roughly 2.2
million adults vaccinated in
Oregon so far, it’s currently
one in 2.2 million.
In other words, you have a
better chance of getting struck
by lightning — 1 in 500,000 in
any given year, according to
the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention.
The prizes — $1 million,
three dozen $10,000 awards,
five $100,000 college schol-
arships and a smattering
of cash prizes in a limited
number of counties — are
only available to Oregonians
who’ve received at least one
shot of COVID-19 vaccine by
11:59 p.m. June 27.
Winners are expected to be
announced in the first week
of July.
The odds get a lot more in-
teresting when it comes to the
state’s $10,000 prizes.
Oregon will award $10,000
123RF
Oregon counts itself among
many other states offering cash
prizes to residents who get vac-
cinated for COVID-19.
to one person for each of its
36 counties — regardless of
the county’s population size.
That means up until recently
the odds of pocketing $10,000
were the best in Oregon’s
smallest county — Wheeler,
population 1,440 — where
one lucky person out of about
600 vaccinated adults will take
home the prize.
In recent days, however, 11
other Oregon counties have
added to the prizes offered to
their residents, using millions
of dollars of federal corona-
virus money allocated by the
vaccination rollout. Now the
chances of pocketing some
significant cash are best in
Gilliam County, population
1,990, where 11 of approxi-
mately 676 vaccinated adults
will win $10,000 each.
“I’d say your odds of win-
ning $10,000 are excellent,”
said Patrick Johnson, a
spokesman for the Oregon
Lottery, which is assisting the
governor’s office and the Ore-
gon Health Authority in ran-
domly drawing winners.
But the odds look consider-
ably less impressive in Oregon’s
largest county — Multnomah
— where county officials ar-
en’t supplementing the state’s
prizes with more awards.
More than 470,000 adults in
the county have received at
least one dose of vaccine. You
guessed it: That puts residents’
chances of taking home the
cash at about 1 in 470,000.
The odds are approximate
because state officials don’t
publish the precise county-by-
county numbers of residents
18 and older who’ve been in-
oculated.
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Lawmakers OK dental equivalent of physician’s assistant
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
A new class of dental thera-
pists, working under the super-
vision of dentists, would pro-
vide basic services to patients
under a bill that is headed to
Gov. Kate Brown.
Oregon lawmakers passed
House Bill 2528 — the House
by a 45-11 vote Wednesday
and the Senate by a 20-9 vote
the previous day — after they
narrowed the scope of practice
and expanded training oppor-
tunities, according to its chief
sponsor.
Rep. Tawna Sanchez, a Dem-
ocrat from Portland and the
Legislature’s only tribal mem-
ber, said dental therapists would
provide services to low-income
people and rural residents who
often lack access to it.
“This bill would create a mid-level dental care provider
that would deliver appropriate dental care, with the scope
of their training approved by the Commission on Dental
Accreditation.”
— Rep. Tawna Sanchez, D-Portland
“This bill would create a
mid-level dental care provider
that would deliver appropri-
ate dental care, with the scope
of their training approved by
the Commission on Dental
Accreditation,” she said. “A li-
censed dental therapist would
be supervised by a dentist to
provide care that will allow
many health care crises to be
avoided and to ensure rural
Oregonians they have the ser-
vices they need.”
47% of lawmakers say they was stark. Of the Legislature’s 55
Democrats, 41 — or 75% — said
have a COVID vaccination
Approximately 47% of Or-
egon lawmakers indicated
they’ve been fully vaccinated
against COVID-19, according
to a survey of all 89 members
of the Legislature.
None was willing to say they
were unvaccinated. But 7% de-
clined to answer the question,
and 46% didn’t respond at all .
The divide across party lines
they’d been fully immunized.
Meanwhile, just one of the 33
Republican lawmakers — or 3%
of the party’s elected members
in Salem — said he had.
That lone Republican —
Sen. Bill Kennemer of Canby
— said: “It’s good for me and
my family, … and I think as a
senator, I have some responsi-
bility to be a role model.”
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Dental therapists are akin
to physician assistants in med-
icine. They will undergo the
special training to perform
the basics of dental care, such
as exams, fillings and simple
extractions of teeth. They will
work under the supervision of
a dentist. They will differ from
dental hygienists, who clean
teeth and perform exams.
Licenses for dental thera-
pists who complete accredited
programs will be issued by the
Oregon Board of Dentistry
starting in 2025. They would
have to spend at least half their
time working with under-
served populations, or in areas
with shortages of health pro-
fessionals.
The Oregon Dental Associ-
ation took no stand on the bill.
But the Legislature’s two den-
tist members opposed it.
One of them, Rep. Cedric
Hayden, R-Lowell, com-
plained about recent cuts by
the Oregon Health Authority
in payments for dental care.
Hayden, a dental surgeon
and rancher, voted for the bill
in committee, but against it
both times in the full House.
“I have concerns about that
rare occasion that could take
place when the dentist isn’t in
the building and that patients
being provided (service) in
our low-income or rural ar-
eas, as this bill specifically calls
out, do not have the equity in
health care that they would
have had if the OHA hadn’t cut
the budget.”
As a nurse practitioner, Rep.
Rachel Prusak, D-West Linn,
said she has seen patients ad-
ministered antibiotics and
painkillers to combat infection
and alleviate pain until they
can obtain dental care.
“We have to pass this bill
that has been worked on for
years,” Prusak, who leads the
House Health Care Commit-
tee, said. “It is going to increase
access to dental therapy in this
state.”
Eight states now license den-
tal therapists.
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