On this day, Spetember 8, 2020, Governor Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act as wildfires continue to spread throughout the state.
Also on this day, September 8, 2020 police arrested 11 people in Portland as protests continued to take place after 100 days of demonstrations in the Oregon city against racism and police.
This metric was once cited as the reason for lockdowns
As reported by the Oregon Health Authority, Oregon's hospital bed capacity is stable in every region of the state. The charts below show how many hospital beds are available and being used. This data does not show the maximum capacity of hospitals. If more patients needed to be hospitalized, hospitals could increase the number of beds in a variety of ways, including adding staff and/or equipment, repurposing other types of hospital beds, and postponing or cancelling elective procedures.
Oregon maintains a database of hospital capacity which collects this kind of information called Oregon's Hospital Capacity Web System (HOSCAP). Early in the COVID-19 outbreak,
hospital capacity was cited as a major reason for extreme lockdown measures.
--Staff Reports| Post Date: 2020-08-26 08:27:59 | |
