November 24, 2021 2:40 p.m. 

COVID-19 has claimed 50 more lives, raising the state’s death toll to 5,116, as of Wednesday.

An update from the Oregon Health Authority reported 862 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19, bringing the state total to 387,485.

OHA said the number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon, is 391, which is 13 fewer than on Tuesday. There are 97 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit beds, which is 5 more than on Tuesday.

OHA’s COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough report, released Wednesday, found that 71.5 percent of the 5,875 reported COVID-19 cases between November 14th and November 20th, occurred in unvaccinated people. There were 1,672 breakthrough cases, accounting for 28.5 percent of all cases. Cases of COVID-19 are far more common in unvaccinated people. The report shows that the rate of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people is 4 times higher than in vaccinated people. To date, 4.4 percent of all vaccine breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 1.2 percent have died. The average age of vaccinated people who died was 81. The report is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/covid19/Documents/DataReports/Breakthrough-Report-11-24-2021.pdf

The new cases include:

*94 in Washington County

*93 in Multnomah County

*88 in Deschutes County

*68 in Marion County

Complete county by county data is linked: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/erd/pages/covid-19-news.aspx

OHA reported that 23,407 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added to the state immunization registry on Tuesday. Learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine situation in Oregon by going to: https://covidvaccine.oregon.gov/