November 18, 2021 4:00 p.m. 

COVID-19 has claimed 13 more lives, raising the state’s death toll to 4,886, as of Thursday.

An update from the Oregon Health Authority reported 1,160 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19, bringing the state total to 382,990.

OHA said the number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon is 419, which is 8 fewer than on Wednesday. There are 104 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit beds, which is 4 more than on Wednesday.

OHA’s most recent update on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, released Thursday, found that 74.5 percent of the 5,924 reported COVID-19 cases between November 7th and November 13th occurred in unvaccinated people. There were 1,508 breakthrough cases, accounting for 25.5 percent of all cases. The average age of the breakthrough cases during that period was 45.

Cases of COVID-19 are far more common in unvaccinated people. The report shows that the rate of COVID-19 in unvaccinated people is four and a half times higher than in vaccinated people. To date, 4.5 percent of all vaccine breakthrough cases have been hospitalized and 1.1 percent have died. The average age of vaccinated people who died was 81.

The new cases include:

*141 in Multnomah County

*127 in Deschutes County

*116 in Marion County

*110 in Washington County

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

The new deaths ranged in age from 43 to 89.

OHA reported that 25,900 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added to the state immunization registry on Wednesday. To learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine situation in Oregon, go to: https://covidvaccine.oregon.gov/