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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. This week, Klamath County has the highest COVID-19 test positivity rate in the state. Now, its largest hospital is struggling to adapt to the demand.
Monday, Sky Lakes Medical Center said it intended to open a second COVID-19 isolation unit, but couldn’t, due to staffing issues. Tuesday, the center had 19 patients in its COVID-19 unit. That’s near the record number of patients it had back in December.
Covid-19 is hitting Klamath County hard. It’s seen a drastic increase in COVID-19 cases in the last few weeks.
Tom Hottman, Spokesperson for Sky Lakes Medical Center says it was averaging 8-12 people per week, then 12-15, but recently its hit 19. During the worst of the pandemic in December, its high was 21.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. People 75 or older in Klamath Falls were able to get their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at Sky Lakes Medical Center today.
Public information officer for Sky Lakes Medical Center, Tom Hottman, says over 500 people signed up for the vaccine today.
He says they’re getting the Moderna vaccine.
“There are a lot of smiles, a lot of happy people. Not only the patients, but staff – it represents hope and that’s kind of been a rare commodity in the age of COVID,” said Hottman.
He says another special vaccination clinic is happening for the 65 and older age group on February 28th.
The complaints peaked in October with 302 reports of ransomware, which is malicious software that infects a computer system and threatens to publish the victim’s data or block access to it unless a ransom is paid.
The rest of 2020 had just two months with 200 ransomware complaints to the FBI, according to the data, which does not capture unreported ransomware attacks.
The bureau did not track ransomware attacks by industry, but contemporaneous reports show that the health care industry was under siege.
Sky Lakes Medical Center in Oregon was hit with ransomware in October. Spokesman Tom Hottman said he recalled reading about dozens of similar attacks nationwide in the same time frame.
Sky Lakes Medical Center In Klamath Falls, Ore.
Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls reached capacity for the first time on Monday night because of the coronavirus pandemic. The strain on the local health care system is happening the same week that a group of local businesses are reopening in spite of public health guidelines.
The only hospital in a sizable portion of southwest Oregon, Sky Lakes is currently limited not by bed space but by the number of medical staff available, according to Tom Hottman, a hospital spokesman.
“It’s stretched staff pretty thin to the point where, at times, there aren’t enough staff to take care of more patients in the in-patient care areas,” Hottman says.