Umatilla County Health today reported three new deaths due to COVID-19.
Umatilla County’s 134th death with COVID-19 is a 68-year-old female who tested positive on Sept. 17 and died Sept. 27 at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston. This individual had underlying conditions.
Umatilla County’s 135th death with COVID-19 is a 94-year-old female who tested positive on Sept. 23 and died Sept. 27 at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Hermiston. This individual had underlying conditions.
Umatilla County’s 136th death with COVID-19 is a 79-year-old male who tested positive on Sept. 30 and died Oct. 4 at a private residence. This individual had underlying conditions.
The health department today also reported 56 new COVID-19 cases – down 15 from Thursday’s total.
Today’s new cases bring the county’s overall total to 13,890. There are a total of 748 presumed cases of coronavirus – up five from Thursday.
A total of 136 people have died.
More details are available on the county’s COVID-19 dashboard.
Umatilla County officials reiterated their advice to residents to take precautions against the spread of coronavirus:
To protect your health and the health of others, be sure to wear a mask, wash your hands and practice social distancing. It is imperative that any person who is exhibiting symptoms of respiratory illness stay home. UCo Health continues to discover instances where individuals are continuing to work while sick. Now, more than ever, it is important for businesses to ensure that employees are not coming to work sick. Employees may feel internal and external pressure to work through mild illness. Businesses are encouraged to develop flexible leave policies to support employees who become ill and establish procedures for sending employees who are not feeling well home. Anyone who is exhibiting any symptoms of respiratory illness must stay home from work for 72-hours after all symptoms (fever, cough, shortness of breath, diarrhea, etc.) have resolved.
News can be very misleading. For some odd reason you continue to insert, “this person had an underlying condition”. To many this is like a catch phrase meaning, they were already sick and dying and Covid only had a small part in their demise, where in reality, I think, Covid was the cause of their death. Sixty percent of adults in the US have under lying condition, so more or less your statement is not saying anything. Might as well state the person was also in a high-risk group due to their age. As I have stated before, stating the person’s vaccination status would be much more telling to the uninformed or misinformed people who even after 700,000 deaths think Covid is a hoax or some kind of communist/democratic plot.
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