A doctor who amassed a social media following for posting TikTok videos dancing in his scrubs has been hit with a $45 million sexual assault lawsuit by a former colleague and social worker in Portland who says he sent inappropriate text messages and touched her inappropriately, according to court papers and reports.
Updated February 6 The first Oregonian to die from COVID-19 was a 70-year-old Multnomah County man who died March 14 at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The 2,000th person to die from the virus was a 90-year-old Yamhill County woman who died Feb. 2 in her home. In between, Oregonians have died from the virus who ve hailed from all but one of the state s 36 counties. (That lucky locale is Sherman County, a sparsely populated spot on the eastern edge of the Columbia River Gorge.) Oregon s COVID-19 death toll reached 2,002 after five new fatalities were announced Friday afternoon. Nearly a quarter of Oregon s 2,002 deaths 481 of them were in Multnomah County, which contains Portland. The pace of fatalities sped up significantly in the fall and winter, when holiday gatherings aided transmission of the virus. New cases and deaths have declined in 2021 although not as quickly as they accelerated.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen says the vaccines provide hope, but it's not the end of COVID-19. She shares an analogy comparing the pandemic to falling in a well.
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Two outbreaks in Oregon have been traced back to one individual who, according to Douglas County officials, went to work while sick last week
One of those outbreaks resulted in seven deaths while the other recent outbreak has led to more than 300 people placed in quarantine
Douglas County is home to about 111,000 people, and as of Tuesday has recorded more than 1,300 coronavirus cases and 37 deaths
Officials have not revealed where the infected worker was employed
Officials in Oregon say a superspreader who knowingly went to work despite feeling sick is probably behind two recent Covid-19 outbreaks in the state, which has left seven dead and more than 300 quarantined.