Hood River County Health Department Health Officer Christopher Van Tilburg says the County has seen several COVID-19 outbreaks in the last few weeks as cases have risen.  Van Tilburg said in a Facebook video that there has been a small outbreak at a long-term care facility, another at a workplace, and some students in the Hood River County School District have tested positive.  Van Tilburg does emphasize they have no evidence of COVID-19 spread in the schools themselves, and that the schools have done “a great job at protection students and staff.”  Van Tilburg does say they have vaccinated roughly half of the County’s residents at this point, adding 20 percent of the County’s population are ineligible due to age, and about 20-to-25 percent have opted out, which is in the range of the national average.