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COVID-19 data for Thursday Jan. 27
Deschutes County cases: 40,430 (454 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 231 (zero new deaths)
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Crook County cases: 5,145 (106 new cases)
8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday
Crook County deaths: 62 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 6,348 (88 new cases)
The Bulletin had been tracking the seven-day average case
Jefferson County deaths: 71 (zero new deaths)
count based on state data since local cases were first reported,
Oregon cases: 613,221 (7,871 new cases)
until the state stopped providing county-level data for
Oregon deaths: 6,067 (19 new deaths)
weekends or holidays. When data is available, The Bulletin will
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Thursday: 83 (9 in iCu).
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‘Super immunity’ more widely possible
FEDOR ZARKHIN
The Oregonian
Getting a COVID-19 in-
fection before or after the
COVID-19 vaccine can create
“super immunity,” research-
ers in Oregon found, comple-
menting previous research that
could point to an eventual path
to co-existence with the virus.
“These results, together with
our previous work, point to a
time when SARS-CoV-2 may
become a mostly mild endemic
infection like a seasonal respi-
ratory tract infection, instead
of a worldwide pandemic,” one
of the Oregon Health & Sci-
ence University study’s co-au-
thors, Marcel Curlin, said in a
statement.
More immediately, the re-
search indicates people who
have had COVID-19 should
get vaccinated, senior co-au-
thor Fikadu Tafesse said.
“The combination is the
best,” Tafesse said in an inter-
view.
The OHSU research team
previously found that the
blood of those who had an
ryan Brennecke/TheBulletin
Sam Hester, a family practice medical assistant supervisor with Mosaic Medical, administers the second dose
of COVID-19 vaccine into the arm of Julie Stamper, the kitchen coordinator at Family Kitchen, during a vacci-
nation clinic Feb. 19 at Bethlehem Inn in Bend.
infection after being vacci-
nated — called a breakthrough
infection — produced a dra-
matic antibody response when
exposed to the virus, as com-
pared to blood from people
who were vaccinated but didn’t
get sick.
Now, the research shows that
getting a shot after recover-
ing from COVID-19 provides
similarly strong protections,
dubbed “super immunity.” In
both cases, antibodies in the
blood were found to be 10
times or more as potent as the
antibodies in people who have
been vaccinated but never had
the disease, the researchers
found.
People with this “super im-
munity” should be better pro-
tected from both infection and
severe illness, the researchers
said.
Tafesse was cautious about
how the public should inter-
pret the results, warning that
it is not worth intentionally
getting a COVID-19 infection,
especially with the risk of long-
term consequences.
“Trust me,” Tafesse said. “I get
that question almost every day.”
But the question could be
moot because the omicron
variant is so incredibly trans-
missible that health officials
have said they believe most Or-
egonians will come in contact
with it.
The “end game” could be
that a combination of vaccina-
tions, booster shots and infec-
tion-derived immunity make
infections from the virus less
and less severe, Tafesse said.
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Oregon reopens applications for rent assistance
JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
Oregon’s housing depart-
ment resumed taking applica-
tions for emergency rental as-
sistance on Wednesday after an
eight-week hiatus.
The state agency stopped
distributing aid to renters in
December, saying it had used
up or allocated its $289 million
in federal rental funds.
Delia Hernández, a spokes-
person for the Oregon Hous-
ing and Community Services
department, said the state has
an estimated $43 million to
$60 million to distribute to
Delia Hernández, a spokesperson for the Oregon Housing
and Community Services department, said the state
would prioritize applicants with the greatest need— larger
households, farther behind on rent payments, impacted by
the 2020 wildfires or living in an area with a high number of
low-income voters.
renters who submit new appli-
cations for the Oregon Emer-
gency Rental Assistance Pro-
gram on or after Wednesday.
The Oregon Legislature set
aside the funds during its De-
cember special session held to
address evictions.
Hernández said the state
would prioritize applicants
with the greatest need— larger
households, farther behind on
rent payments, impacted by
the 2020 wildfires or living in
an area with a high number of
low-income voters.
The state agency has sent
more than $240 million in
rental assistance to about
35,000 households since June,
when an early pandemic mor-
atorium on evictions expired.
They’ve received about 30,000
that they haven’t processed.
In June, the Legislature
passed a “safe harbor” bill,
which gave 60 days of eviction
protections to those who had
applied for rental assistance
but had not yet gotten aid. The
Legislature discarded that rule
during the special session, giv-
ing renters protections until
their applications were pro-
cessed.
But while the state distrib-
uted more aid in that short pe-
riod of time than it did in pre-
vious full years, it also lagged in
sending funds to people who
had applied, and some renters
said they were left waiting for
weeks with pending requests
or without a status update on
their applications. Many were
waiting past the deadline when
their protections expired.
Those who need assistance
can apply on the state’s rental
assistance portal.
Lewis & Clark College announces 1st woman, Black president
associated Press
PORTLAND — Dr. Robin
Holmes-Sullivan will be the first
woman and first Black person to
become president of Lewis & Clark
College in the school’s 155-year
history.
She will step into the role in July
after president Wim Wiewel re-
tires, Oregon Public Broadcasting
reported.
Holmes-Sullivan is currently
vice president for student life and
dean of students at Lewis & Clark,
which is a private liberal arts col-
lege in Portland.
“It’s obviously something that
is going to be, and is, very mean-
ingful to me and to our school
and also to the young people who
will be looking at me as someone
who they can feel inspired by,”
Holmes-Sullivan said. “They can
realize that they can dream big.”
Prior to Lewis & Clark,
Holmes-Sullivan worked for the
University of California system as
vice president of student affairs.
Before that, she spent almost three
decades at the University of Ore-
gon.
She started at the University of
Oregon as a clinical coordinator
in the university’s counseling cen-
ter and eventually became the vice
president of student life.
The Lewis & Clark board of
trustees selected Holmes-Sullivan
as president following a nationwide
search that attracted over 100 ap-
plicants, according to the college.
“In these tumultuous times, es-
pecially in regard to student issues,
I can’t think of a more level-headed
and experienced leader than
Robin,” Wiewel said.
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Dr. Robin Holmes-Sullivan has been named the new president of Lewis & Clark College in Portland.
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