Authorities are reporting COVID-19 related fatalities involving residents of Wasco and Hood River counties.  The North Central Public Health District says a third resident of the Oregon Veterans Home has died as the result of an outbreak there.  The district did not offer an age or gender of the deceased, but did say this was the 20th COVID death in Wasco County.  This person had tested positive last Monday and died the same day.  There has been 32 COVID cases linked to the Oregon Veterans Home outbreak that was first reported on October 25.   Meanwhile, the Oregon Health Authority reported that a 78-year-old woman in Hood River County who tested positive for COVID on December 6 died on Sunday.  There have now been nine COVID-19 deaths in Hood River County according to state statistics.  The OHA reported 11 new confirmed or presumptive COVID-19 cases in Wasco County ten in Hood River County in its Monday report.  Wasco County is now at 797 COVID cases for the pandemic, with 427 listed as recovered defined as 30 days without symptoms and in stable medical condition.  Hood River County is at 719 cases.  Sherman County is now at 30 with 23 recovered, and Gilliam County is at 33 cases with 21 recovered.  The OHA reported on Monday 846 new cases statewide with six deaths, moving the state’s pandemic totals to 103,755 cases and 1,347 deaths.  The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon is 528, which is two fewer than Sunday.  There are 121 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit beds, which is the same as Sunday.