Hood River County Health Department Director Trish Elliott told County Commissioners on Monday evening that there are 156 active COVID-19 cases as of Monday, and there will be more Tuesday.  Elliott said 248 of the 722 cases diagnosed in the County during the pandemic have been since the start of December.  She told Commissioners that Hood River County started its surge later than other parts of the state, adding with the arrival of winter they has been a shift from diagnosing one or two cases in families to all of the family, and that there have been a number of high risk outbreaks in workplaces.  Elliott says there have been 16 hospitalizations and 11 deaths related to COVID in Hood River County during the pandemic.