Hood River County Health Department Director Trish Elliott told County Commissioners on Monday that with 40 COVID cases in the County for the two week period that ended Friday, she anticipates the County will be moved up to the moderate risk category by the state.  But she also noted the County is second in Oregon in percentage of residents vaccinated, with 8,479 people fully vaccinated and 3,192 in progress.  Elliott says moving forward, county health officials plan to stick with their current plans, but also emphasize smaller scale vaccination events.  Elliott said the increasing case numbers are a product of large social gatherings.  She added there is a possibility the Oregon Health Authority may start to use hospitalization numbers in their metrics, and pointed out that Hood River County has had only one COVID related hospitalization in the last month.