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News Release
Oregon reports 111 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 1 new death - 02/21/21

Feb. 21, 2021

Contact: OHA External Relations, orcovid19.media@dhsoha.state.or.us

Oregon reports 111 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 1 new death

PORTLAND, Ore. — There is one new COVID-19 related death in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,155 the Oregon Health Authority reported at 12:01 a.m. today.

Oregon Health Authority reported 111 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of 12:01 a.m. today bringing the state total to 152,818.

Note: Due to a server error, a large number of electronic lab results (ELR) were not processed yesterday. As a result, today’s case and ELR totals are lower than usual and the total for tomorrow is expected to be higher than usual. The backlog of ELRs is currently being processed.

Vaccinations in Oregon

Today, OHA reported that 21,202 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added to the state immunization registry. Of this total, 17,894 doses were administered on Feb. 20 and 3,308 were administered on previous days but were entered into the vaccine registry on Feb. 20.

Cumulative daily totals can take several days to finalize because providers have 72 hours to report doses administered and technical challenges have caused many providers to lag in their reporting. OHA has been providing technical support to vaccination sites to improve the timeliness of their data entry into the state’s ALERT Immunization Information System (IIS).

Oregon has now administered a cumulative total of 802,404 first and second doses of COVID-19 vaccines. To date, 924,575 doses of vaccine have been delivered to sites across Oregon.

These data are preliminary and subject to change. OHA's dashboards provide regularly updated vaccination data, and Oregon’s dashboard has been updated today.

COVID-19 hospitalizations

The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon is 166, which is three more than yesterday. There are 44 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit (ICU) beds, which is seven fewer than yesterday.

The total number of patients in hospital beds may fluctuate between report times. The numbers do not reflect admissions per day, nor the length of hospital stay. Staffing limitations are not captured in this data and may further limit bed capacity.

More information about hospital capacity can be found here

Cases and deaths

The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported today are in the following counties: Benton (3), Clackamas (4), Columbia (9), Coos (9), Curry (3),  Deschutes (11), Douglas (21), Jackson (2), Jefferson (3), Josephine (1), Klamath (1), Lake (1), Lane (13), Lincoln (1), Linn (1), Marion (11), Multnomah (8), Polk (4), Umatilla (1), Washington (3), Yamhill (1).

Oregon’s 2155th COVID-19 death is an 84-year-old man in Clackamas County who tested positive on Feb. 16 and died on Feb. 20 at Kaiser Westside Medical Center Hospital. He had underlying conditions.

County

Total Cases1

Total deaths2

Baker

629

7

Benton

2252

16

Clackamas

13198

170

Clatsop

766

6

Columbia

1217

21

Coos

1356

18

Crook

765

18

Curry

397

6

Deschutes

5849

58

Douglas

2333

51

Gilliam

53

1

Grant

221

1

Harney

266

6

Hood River

1057

29

Jackson

8117

108

Jefferson

1921

27

Josephine

2267

48

Klamath

2753

54

Lake

374

6

Lane

10046

121

Lincoln

1121

19

Linn

3534

55

Malheur

3331

58

Marion

18183

280

Morrow

1031

13

Multnomah

31534

514

Polk

2981

42

Sherman

52

0

Tillamook

403

2

Umatilla

7581

80

Union

1264

19

Wallowa

142

4

Wasco

1218

25

Washington

20867

209

Wheeler

22

1

Yamhill

3717

62

Statewide

152,818

2,155

1 This includes cases confirmed by diagnostic testing and presumptive cases. Presumptive cases are those without a positive diagnostic test who present COVID-19-like symptoms and had close contact with a confirmed case. County of residence for cases may change as new information becomes available. If changes occur, we will update our counts accordingly.

2 For additional details on individuals who have died from COVID-19 in Oregon, please refer to our press releases

There is no single-day ELR table for yesterday due to the ELR processing error that occurred.

Cumulative ELRs 

County

Negative ELR

Positive ELR

Total ELR

Percent Positivity

Baker

7842

1529

9371

16.32%

Benton

102100

3297

105397

3.13%

Clackamas

334789

18404

353193

5.21%

Clatsop

25893

1243

27136

4.58%

Columbia

31443

1534

32977

4.65%

Coos

29955

1379

31334

4.40%

Crook

11810

997

12807

7.78%

Curry

7909

316

8225

3.84%

Deschutes

126267

7483

133750

5.59%

Douglas

50560

1925

52485

3.67%

Gilliam

887

28

915

3.06%

Grant

3298

176

3474

5.07%

Harney

2534

207

2741

7.55%

Hood River

24700

1314

26014

5.05%

Jackson

159710

10217

169927

6.01%

Jefferson

14742

1629

16371

9.95%

Josephine

43145

2127

45272

4.70%

Klamath

37036

2782

39818

6.99%

Lake

2423

356

2779

12.81%

Lane

341070

11152

352222

3.17%

Lincoln

34262

2133

36395

5.86%

Linn

102629

6474

109103

5.93%

Malheur

17476

4545

22021

20.64%

Marion

253862

25502

279364

9.13%

Morrow

5393

1189

6582

18.06%

Multnomah

771133

43377

814510

5.33%

Polk

52572

3644

56216

6.48%

Sherman

1083

47

1130

4.16%

Tillamook

10930

359

11289

3.18%

Umatilla

49990

7859

57849

13.59%

Union

9775

950

10725

8.86%

Wallowa

2004

72

2076

3.47%

Wasco

26094

1277

27371

4.67%

Washington

483296

29161

512457

5.69%

Wheeler

331

20

351

5.70%

Yamhill

98413

5074

103487

4.90%

Statewide

3,277,356

199,778

3,477,134

5.75%

 

Learn more about COVID-19 vaccinations

To learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine situation in Oregon, visit our webpage, which has a breakdown of distribution and other useful information.

 

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