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8 Jan

OHA Director Pat Allen speaking during today's press conference: "I want to give you an update on the actions we announced earlier this week to speed vaccination in Oregon and share what our latest forecast tells us about the severity of the #COVID19 pandemic in state."

"As of January 6th, Oregon has received a cumulative total of 128,700 doses of Pfizer vaccine and 121,400 doses of Moderna vaccine for a total of 250,100 doses."

"As of yesterday, Oregon has vaccinated a total of 73,286 health care workers, first responders, and others – as well as staff and residents at skilled nursing facilities and memory care centers, where our most vulnerable seniors live."

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5 Jan

OHA Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dana Hargunani speaking at today's media briefing: "As a pediatrician, I know vaccines are a vital tool to help stop the spread of disease. The COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective."

"At the same time, these safe and effective vaccines have posed new
challenges to our robust system of vaccination distribution in Oregon.
Distributing and administering large numbers of COVID-19 vaccines are
different than flu vaccines."

"We’re rolling out a new vaccine in a pandemic: Scheduling, physical distancing and the observation period immediately after a vaccine is administered all have an impact on the logistics of organizing mass vaccination events."

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5 Jan

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OHA Director Pat Allen speaking at today's media briefing: "We wanted to give you an update on where we stand in our #COVID19 vaccination effort and the steps we're taking achieve @OregonGovBrown's goal of 12,000 vaccinations per day within the next two weeks."

"Our pace of COVID-19 vaccinations is on par with other states, but there's more we can do to accelerate progress. According to CDC data, Oregon currently ranks 36th in the nation in vaccine distribution, with more than 1.2% of our pop. having been vaccinated as of yesterday."

"WA is just ahead at 1.3 percent and CA has also vaccinated 1.2 percent. We've outperformed nearly all other states in containing the #COVID19 virus and preventing COVID-19 deaths."

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25 Nov 20

OHA Director Patrick Allen during today's press conference: "At OHA, we’re paying attention to collateral effects of the pandemic: the impact on behavioral health, indicators of toxic stress, barriers to medical care, economic underpinnings of health & other measures of health."

"Looking at the data, you won’t be surprised to hear that COVID-19 has had damaging effects beyond the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths:"

"Behavioral health: In mid-July, nearly 50 percent of adult Oregonians experienced symptoms of depression and anxiety, according to a new monthly pulse household survey conducted by the CDC. That percent tapered off in the early fall, but has begun to rise again."

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25 Nov 20

OHA State Health Officer Dr. Dean Sidelinger speaking during today’s press conference: "Over the past two weekend days, we set new records for daily #COVID19 cases and have since reported nearly 5,000 additional cases over the past three days."

"We are also seeing severely ill #COVID19 patients filling hospital beds at an alarming rate - the highest numbers since the pandemic began. We have had more than a tripling of COVID-19 hospitalizations since Oct. 26."

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"The new tools @OregonGovBrown announced today are rooted in science and will enable us to focus our efforts where the disease is most prevalent:
o By studying case rates/positive test rates
o By closely monitoring hospital capacity
o By closely examining the impacts of COVID-19"

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20 Nov 20

OHA Senior Health Advisor Dr. Melissa Sutton during today's media availability: "Currently, Oregon reports the number of persons tested for #COVID19 each week. Our data shows that to date, more than 966,000 people -- nearly 1 in 4 Oregonians – have been tested."

"Until this point, we have counted and reported people tested, because our infectious disease database was created and formatted to track people as opposed to laboratory results. Many other states report people tested for this same reason."

"Why have we reported the total number of people tested, instead of the total number of tests? Early in the pandemic, testing was occurring mostly through the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory or in hospital systems. Cases were being retested frequently."

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