Coronavirus updates Sunday: Oregon reports 8 deaths, 1,421 cases; Lane reports 1 death, 57 cases
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The Oregon Health Authority reported eight coronavirus-related deaths on Sunday, raising the state pandemic death toll to 1,421. The agency also reported 1,421 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, bringing the statewide total to 117,745.
OHA recorded 3,430 doses of vaccine administered on Sunday, raising the state’s total of first vaccine doses administered to 48,725. This figure is based on preliminary reports of 1,717 doses administered Saturday, as well as 1,713 administered on prior days that had not been recorded.
All vaccinations occurred at Oregon hospitals, long-term care facilities, emergency medical service agencies, urgent care facilities and Local Public Health Authorities.
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CVS Pharmacist Jordan Tran prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Rose Villa Senior Living in Portland on Monday, Dec. 21, 2020,
Cold-storage concerns, the holidays and confusion about when doses will arrive have all meant the vaccine isn’t getting to health care workers as quickly as planned.
Oregon is well behind a target public health officials set earlier this month to get 100,000 people their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine before the years’ end.
Late Wednesday, just over 31,000 people had received their first dose, according to the state’s vaccination data portal, though there can be up to a 72-hour lag in reporting new vaccinations.