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in a “difficult spot” had there
been an increase in cases.
“Staffing is further exacer-
bated when health care work-
ers fall ill themselves or cannot
work due to child care and home-
schooling challenges,” Lindsay
said in an email Monday.
She said the uptick in cases
impacted Harney County’s hospi-
tal staffing levels as well.
“Occupancy does not get you
there,” she said. “You need peo-
ple to staff those (ICU) beds as
well.”
She said the hospitals in the
region had been sending peo-
ple to Elko, Nevada, and Boise,
Idaho, but those hospitals were
maxed out last week.
Lindsay said, with winter driv-
ing conditions, hospitals are “one
bad car accident” from a chal-
lenging situation when it comes
to ICU beds.
She said the county needs to
continue to ramp up its testing,
including testing both symptom-
atic and asymptomatic people.
Lindsay said she disagrees
with the belief that testing only
symptomatic people will bring
the positivity rate down.
“If you’re only testing peo-
ple that are sick, and we know
that COVID is raging across the
country, you’re going to end up
with more positive cases,” she
said. “You have to test asymp-
tomatic people too.”
The health department, she
said, is not trying to “manipu-
late” the numbers. Lindsay said
that the rate would be higher if
they were only to test symptom-
atic people.
She said the only way she
sees the county getting off of the
“Extreme Risk” list is for people
to do what she has recommended
since the start of the pandemic:
wear masks, maintain social dis-
tance and stay home when they
are sick.
“Politics aside,” she said, “I
believe in masks.”
The number of travelers
during the upcoming holi-
days is expected to be much
smaller than last year, before
the pandemic.
In November 2019, more
than 55 million Ameri-
cans traveled more than 50
miles during the Thanks-
giving weekend, according
to the U.S. Department of
Transportation.
That was less than half of
the 115 million people who
traveled during the Christ-
mas and New Year’s season
last year.
While the total numbers
are expected to be down,
a doubling of travelers at
Christmas would be trou-
bling. Thanksgiving trips
average three days between
two points. The average
Christmas trip is six days with
multiple stops.
The increase of COVID-
19 cases in Oregon reflects
a worldwide rise in infec-
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for each city council mem-
ber and their city employee
to meet remotely.
“It helps to be portable,”
Delano said.
Delano said the city also
purchased personal protec-
tive equipment and cleaning
supplies for the city’s busi-
nesses. He said they did not
start a grant program because
they are available through
Business Oregon.
He said they will give
what cannot be spent before
Dec. 31 to the county to go
toward food insecurity.
Monument
Monument City Recorder
Dorothy Jordon said the
Disease Activity
Rate of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 over 14 days
(counties with 30,0000 or more people)
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Lower Risk
Moderate Risk
High Risk
Extreme Risk
<50.0
50.0 to <100.0
100.0 to < 200.0
≥200.0
<30
30 to <45
45 to <60
≥60
<5.0%
5.0% to <8.0%
8.0% to <10.0%
≥10.0%
-or-
Number of COVID-19 cases over 14 days (counties
with less than 30,000 people)
-and-
Percentage test positivity over previous 14 days
tions. In the U.S., 13.5 million
have been infected and over
267,000 have died, according
to the Johns Hopkins Corona-
virus Resource Center.
Worldwide, 63 million
have become infected and 1.4
million have died.
Though the United States
accounts for only 4% of the
world’s population, it has
21% of COVID-19 cases
worldwide and 18% of all
deaths.
Eleven countries have
reported over one million
cases: United States (13.5
million), India (9.6 million),
Brazil (6.1 million), France
(2.2 million), Russia (2.15
million), Spain (1.6 million),
the United Kingdom (1.55
million), Argentina (1.28 mil-
lion), Colombia (1.26 million)
and Mexico (1.06 million).
Nations reporting over
100,000 deaths are the United
States (267,635), Brazil
(170,115), India (134,699)
and Mexico (102,739).
The Institute for Health
Metrics at the University of
Washington in Seattle proj-
ects that, at current rates, Ore-
gon could top 3,100 cases per
day by Jan. 1 and 6,300 cases
by Feb. 1.
Brown’s two-week freeze
order was followed by state-
ments from some county
sheriffs that they would
not enforce the rules. Sev-
eral local government lead-
ers, particularly in southern
and Eastern Oregon, voted to
either condemn or ignore the
rules.
The Oregon Restaurant
and Lodging Association
sought a restraining order
in federal court against the
council discussed on Nov. 18
the importance of updating
their technology for video
conferencing.
“We don’t know how long
this is going to go,” Jordan
said. “Right now our tech-
nology for video conferenc-
ing is outdated.”
The city will also be pur-
chasing electronic equipment
such as laptops so work and
meetings can be conducted
remotely.
The city will also use the
funds to make sure the city
has the personal protective
equipment they need and to
cover the expense from the
PPE purchased earlier this
year.
“The funds should be
used for anything to relieve
the financial impact to us
from COVID-19 and help
keep employees safe,” Jor-
dan said. “At the begin-
ning of the year when you
put your budget together
you had no idea that you’re
gonna go through three times
the Clorox wipes that you go
through in the past and those
types of things.”
areas in the near future.”
Dayville
Dayville City Recorder
Ruthie Moore said the city
is currently working on
improving its technology
capabilities and conducting
virtual meetings.
“Right now that’s a lit-
tle bit difficult with what
we have now,” Moore
said. “That’s the route
we’re going, and technol-
ogy is where we’re going
to start at this point, and
then we’ll explore other
Seneca
Amanda Born, Seneca
city manager, said the city
is still figuring out its alloca-
tion. She said they are check-
ing with the city attorney on
how they can help the school.
Born said Seneca also pur-
chased COVID-19-related
cleaning supplies for the city,
and they have not requested
reimbursement yet.
Born said they have dis-
cussed sending the money
to the county if they cannot
spend the money by the end
of the year.
Long Creek
Long Creek Mayor Don
Porter said the city is look-
ing into a utility relief grant
like the one Prairie City is
freeze. U.S. District Judge
Karin Immergut rejected the
request, saying that while she
recognizes “the heavy bur-
den” Brown’s order placed
on the association’s mem-
bers, “those burdens are out-
weighed by the benefits to all
Oregonians.”
The governors of Oregon,
California and Washington
issued a joint statement late
last week that anyone trav-
eling into their states should
self-quarantine for two weeks.
Three major pharma-
ceutical companies have
announced they could have
a vaccine approved for use
by the end of the year. Pfizer,
Moderna and AstraZeneca say
that, with federal approval,
they could begin shipping the
first doses immediately.
The initial batches in the
low millions would go to
states based on their popu-
lation and used on front-line
health care workers who are
the most likely to either be
exposed to the virus or carry
the virus into a facility with
older and at-risk patients.
offering its residents. Addi-
tionally, he said, the city pur-
chased roughly $800 in per-
sonal protective equipment
for its first responders, and
he wants to see about getting
reimbursed.
He said early in the pan-
demic the city did not know
what it could be reimbursed
for.
“We did not know what
we did not know,” he said.
He said the city also sent
small crews of people to the
food bank in John Day to
pick up meals for up to 25
families in Long Creek.
Canyon City
Canyon
City
City
Recorder Corry Rider said
the city does not have a plan
with the COVID-19 relief
funds as of Nov. 19.
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