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News Release
Lane County Public Health February 23rd COVID-19 Case/Vaccination Update: Live Virtual Press Conference at 10:30 - 02/23/21

Lane County Public Health (LCPH) was notified of at least 39 additional positive cases of COVID-19 and one new death.This makes a total of  ?ten thousand one hundred and six cases. Sixty six thousand five hundred and eleven vaccine doses administered. 

 

10,106  (+39) total cases-  Note that this includes confirmed and presumptive.

 

Of our cases (confirmed and presumptive): 

Hospitalized: 19

·ICU: 5 (of the 19)

Deaths: 122 (+1)

Infectious: 162 (+7)

 

Persons Under Monitoring: 416 (-20)

Total persons fully vaccinated: 16,665 (+142)
Total persons received first dose only: 32,480 (+2,078)
Total doses administered: 66,511 (+2,367)

Percentage of Lane County population fully vaccinated: 4.36%

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.

 

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