Oregon COVID Cases & Hospitalizations Dropping

The Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Weekly Report, released Wednesday, shows a second consecutive week of declining cases and hospitalizations.  OHA reported 4,896 new daily cases of COVID-19 during the week that ended Sunday.  That represents a 12% decline from the previous week and marks the second consecutive week of lower weekly cases.  New COVID-19 related hospitalizations also declined from 272 to 245.  There were 31 reported COVID-19 related deaths, nearly doubling the previous week’s total.  There were 111,121 tests for COVID-19 for the week of May 2 through May 8.  The percentage of positive tests was 6.1%.  People 70 years of age and older have accounted for 39% of COVID-19 related hospitalizations and 75% of COVID-19 related deaths.

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