Lane County Public Health COVID-19 Case Update: Lane County Virtual Town Hall On The Vaccination Effort Tomorrow - 01/20/21
Lane County Public Health (LCPH) was notified of at least 42 additional positive cases of COVID-19.This makes a total of ?eight thousand four hundred and seventy seven cases.
*Lane County Vaccine Town Hall tomorrow (1/21) from 7-8:30 pm. See below for details.*
8,477 (+42) total cases- Note that this includes confirmed and presumptive.
Of our cases (confirmed and presumptive):
Hospitalized: 27 (+1)
·ICU: 7 (of the 27)
Deaths: 110
Infectious: 353
Persons Under Monitoring: 626
Number of vaccine doses administered in Lane County: 13,553 Vaccines
Lane County Public Health is hosting a virtual town hall meeting on the COVID-19 vaccination effort here in Lane County tomorrow (1/21) from 7-8:30 pm. The meeting will include a panel of partners in the vaccine effort, featuring:
Dr. Patrick Luedtke, Lane County Public Health
Dr. Jim McGovern, PeaceHealth
JoAnna Kammpi- Eugene/Springfield EMS
Dr. Jessica Versage- McKenzie Willamette
Dr. Stacey Chance, Oregon Medical Group
Krista Dillon, University of Oregon
Tune in at one of the following locations:
Lanecounty.org/webcasts (https://lanecounty.org/cms/One.aspx?portalId=3585881&pageId=7842434)
http://Facebook.com/lanecountygovernment
Comcast Cable Channel 21
Testing: OHA is now excluding negative labs from Opera in an effort to improve performance. This includes historic negative labs.
Data regarding Lane County testing, patient status, case ZIP codes and more is available at www.LaneCountyOR.gov/localdata
The State of Oregon has created a COVID-19 web page with resources at http://coronavirus.oregon.gov.
High Risk Individuals who had contact with these community members will be contacted by Lane County Public Health so they can work with their health care providers on next steps. Communicable disease investigations are underway. If a public contact exposure point is identified, that information will be shared with the public.
* Presumptive cases are people without a positive PCR test who have COVID-19-like symptoms and had close contact with a confirmed case. Though not confirmed by a positive diagnostic test, presumptive cases have a high likelihood of having COVID-19 because of the specific nature of the symptoms and known exposure.