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KWSO COVID-19 UPDATE 5/5/21
May
The Warm Springs community COVID-19 Update today reports 1 new case of COVID-19 from 61 tests conducted on Tuesday (05/04/21) at the Warm Springs Health & Wellness Center. There are currently 19 active cases of COVID-19 and 28 close contacts receiving daily monitoring from CTWS & IHS staff.
TESTING
If you would like to be tested for COVID-19 – check in at the front gate at the Warm Springs Health & Wellness Center and they will direct you where to go.
- 10664 tests have been conducted at the Health & Wellness Center – 750 Total Positive Cases resulted
- 92 positive tests have come from outside facilities
- There have been a total of 842 cases of COVID-19 in Warm Springs since the Pandemic Began.
VACCINATIONS
- 2360 primary doses, of COVID-19 vaccine, have been administered
- 1972 2nd (Booster) doses have been given
HOSPITALIZATION & DEATHS
- 22 Warm Springs people have died from COVID-19
- 82 people from our community have been hospitalized with COVID-19 and 82 have been discharged
- Charles hospitals are at 90.497% occupancy and ICUs are at 76.67% (there are 31 cases of Covid-19 with 6 of those patients in the ICU)
RISKS
Counties in the COVID-19 Extreme risk category will move back down to high risk this Friday – just a week after the tighter rules took effect in an effort to beat back a fourth surge of COVID-19. That includes Deschutes, Crook and Wasco counties. Jefferson County remains in the high risk category (A full list of updated county risk levels, effective this Friday (5/7/21) released by the state, is available HERE.) That means restaurants in Portland, Gresham, Salem, Eugene, Bend and Medford can restart in person dining service at 25% capacity or a maximum of 50 people, whichever is lower. According to OPB the decision hinged on improvement in a single metric: slowing growth in the weekly cumulative total of hospital beds occupied by COVID-19 patients.
There is a new Data Dashboard that the Oregon Health Authority has created to track COVID-19 variants in the state. You can click on your region to see the case counts for different types of variants that have been found. You can find that dashboard HERE
For up to date information about the Covid-19 Pandemic visit:
US CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
