North Central Public Health District Health Officer Dr. Mimi McDonell told Wasco County Commissioners Wednesday morning that there have been 11 deaths in the last two weeks as the result of the COVID-19 outbreak at Flagstone Senior Living.  There have been 50 cases involving patients, staff, and close contacts since September 5 linked to Flagstone, and two hospitalization.  Nearly all the cases were in the memory support wing, and McDonell says that brought a number of response challenges, including difficulty in following protective guidelines and communicating symptoms.  McDonell said most of the remaining patients in that wing have been transferred to different facilities that have dedicated memory support or COVID-positive patients, and two more residents are about to be transferred.  Once that occurs the memory support unit will be closed for a deep cleaning.  Weekly testing of residents and staff to continue until there are two weeks of all negative tests.  She noted that there were delays in receiving results of the initial tests done on Flagstone staff and residents due to a closure of the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory due to wildfire smoke.