Government response Ĭlosure notice posted at the Northwest Library on March 16, 2020 Researchers at OHSU have suggested Oregon's outbreak "had one of the most diverse origin stories known so far in the United States". In May, the family of a man who died at Healthcare at Foster Creek sued for $2.4 million. On April 30, eleven cases were confirmed among the transient population in the Portland area. The Oregon Department of Human Services identified many safety violations. The Healthcare at Foster Creek nursing home in southeast Portland was Oregon's largest coronavirus death cluster, as of mid April, with 50 confirmed cases and 14 deaths.
More than 30 people in the Portland metropolitan area tested positive by April 1. An employee who worked at the Wells Fargo Center tested positive on March 14, prompting building tenant Davis Wright Tremaine to close offices in Portland. The first case in Multnomah County and fifteenth in Oregon was confirmed on March 10 the patient was treatment at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The Lake Oswego School District closed the school for cleaning. Governor Kate Brown spoke and the director of the Oregon Health Authority confirmed someone from Washington County who worked at Forest Hills Elementary School in Lake Oswego was being treated at Hillsboro's Kaiser Westside Medical Center. Oregon's first presumptive case was announced in Portland on February 28, 2020. had the most confirmed active cases in the world and ranks third in the number of total deaths from the virus. states, Washington, D.C., and all inhabited U.S. Cases have been confirmed in all fifty U.S. The pandemic was first confirmed to have spread to the United States in January 2020.
Īs of 21 October 2021, more than 242 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported in more than 200 countries and territories, resulting in more than 4.92 million deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on 30 January 2020 and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. The outbreak started in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, in December 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Chalk writing on a sidewalk in southeast Portland during the pandemic
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