Oregon Health Authority director Pat Allen and lead epidemiologist Dean Sidelinger talk with Gov. Kate Brown’s office via phone call on Monday, April 20. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
The Oregon Health Authority on Tuesday resumed publishing information about individual deaths with Covid, less than a week after saying the practice had become too time-consuming to continue.
Tuesday’s update on Covid in Oregon listed details for the 54 Oregonians whose deaths were confirmed between Jan. 27 and Feb. 1. They include nine Marion County residents and one Polk County resident.
“Oregon’s 1,930th COVID-19 death is a 76-year-old woman in Marion County who tested positive on Dec. 21 and died on Jan. 26 at Salem Hospital. She had underlying conditions,” one of the reports reads.
OHA said Jan. 27 it would stop listing biographical information about individual deaths in its daily reports and would instead publish statistics about the age ranges of deaths on a data dashboard. The change drew criticism from legislators in both parties, the Oregonian reported, prompting the agency to reverse course late last week.
-Rachel Alexander
