The Oregon Health Authority announced seven new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 Sunday morning, doubling the number of known cases in Oregon.
Gov. Kate Brown said she is declaring a state of emergency to bring additional resources to the state’s response.
Sunday’s announcement brings the number of cases of the virus in Oregon to 14.
Five of the new cases are in Washington County, officials said. Douglas and Marion counties announced their first cases.
All seven new cases are the result of community spread or contact with another known case. None are the result of international travel. Three were hospitalized at the time they were diagnosed.
At least one person with the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is being treated at the Oregon Health & Science University, according to a message sent to employees of the hospital Sunday morning.
“Because OHSU screens patients prior to admission, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, and asks anyone with respiratory symptoms to wear a mask,” the message says, “the risk of employee exposure is low.”
“We have been preparing for this moment since January,” the message reads. “This is what we do every day.”
Douglas County officials said one new case there is a resident but offered no more details, such as whether the infection is related to travel or another case. They also did not disclose the patient’s condition beyond “medically stable.”
Washington County officials said four new cases are linked to the state’s first case, while the fifth isn’t linked to any known case.
The Oregon Emergency Board on Monday will consider a $5 million funding request for the state’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.
The first person to test positive for COVID-19 in Oregon was a male custodian between the ages of 40 and 50 at Forest Hills Elementary School in Lake Oswego. The man, who lives in Washington County, had not recently traveled, suggesting the case was attributable to community spread. The man remained hospitalized, his condition unknown as of Saturday.
On March 1, a second case was identified in a female relative of the man between the ages of 40 and 50. That woman is isolated at home.
The next day, the third case of community spread COVID-19 was announced in a man from Umatilla County between the ages of 60 and 70.
On Saturday, after a lull in new cases that lasted several days, health officials announced four cases: two in Jackson County, one in Klamath County and one in Washington County. Officials said three were travel-related while the Washington County case was the result of contact with an earlier patient with the virus.
Most infected people will have only mild, flu-like symptoms. According to a February WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease report, the “crude fatality ratio” of the 55,924 confirmed cases studied was 3.8 percent. The actual overall death rate around the world so far is believed to be significantly lower. The mortality rate for COVID-19 increases with age.
No Oregon deaths have been linked to the coronavirus.
Oregon health officials are testing only people sick enough to be hospitalized who don’t have the flu, people with symptoms who also have traveled to the countries most affected by the coronavirus outbreak and people who have had contact with a person with the disease. Dozens of Oregonians have tested negative.
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