Almost twice as many women as men received COVID vaccines in Oregon

Oregon is doing a better job of vaccinating its population than California or Washington, according to national data compiled by Bloomberg News, and is doing better than the state average as well. The figures show that Oregon vaccinated a larger percentage of its population than the two neighboring states and used a higher percentage of the vaccines it received.

The improvement comes at a time when the overall case count in the state is on a downward trend, a trend that the Oregon Health Authority said in a January 29 briefing that it hopes – cautiously – to continue, if residents of the Oregon continue to practice social detachment and wear masks.

“On January 13, our state reproductive rate was 0.81,” said the agency. “This means that each case of COVID-19 is being disseminated to less than one person.

“According to the most recent forecast, if we continue on our current course of wearing masks, maintaining physical distance and restricting our collection sizes, the daily cases of COVID-19 will decrease to an average of 420 per day, and related hospitalizations. to COVID-19 will decrease by 13 per day. “(On Saturday, OHA announced 707 new cases and 19 new deaths.)