ONTARIO
A local businessman says data in the Oregon Health Authorityâs most recent weekly outbreak report released Jan. 27 is misleading.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has been in full swing, OHA has been releasing weekly a list of active and resolved outbreaks in schools, child care facilities, senior and congregate living settings and workplaces for every county in Oregon. The Jan. 27 report was 77 pages long and had data from the following week up to Jan. 24. When Malheur County Health Department regurgitated numbers from the list in a news release on Thursday, the agency indicated three active outbreaks in Vale and three in Ontario, with the latter including two food processing facilities and the prison. At the same time, the news release stated that numbers and dates in the report were âno longer accurate in some cases.â