Oregon voices: What has a year of COVID-19 taught you? Updated Mar 02, 2021; Posted Mar 02, 2021 Kayla Nhim, CMA, preps vials of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be administered to teachers and educators at The Oregon Convention Center on January 27, 2021, in Portland.Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian Facebook Share It’s been a year since the first case of COVID-19 was discovered in Oregon. In the weeks and months since that discovery, the state shut down schools, parks and businesses, encouraged social distancing and masking, and asked people to stay home, all in an attempt to control the virus which continued to rage.