Emerging Respiratory Infections: COVID-19

As of March 17, 2020, the Oregon Health Authority is updating the way we report COVID-19 cases in Oregon.

Because community transmission is now occurring in Oregon and new recommendations on social distancing are in place, we are no longer reporting daily counts of persons under monitoring. We will continue to provide daily updates on cases and testing. Results from the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory no longer require confirmation through CDC. Because testing has expanded to include commercial laboratories, we are receiving results from multiple sources throughout the day. Also, OHA no longer receives detailed information about specific symptoms and severity of all people being tested for COVID-19 infection.

In an effort to get the most accurate and most current information to Oregonians, we will update statewide cases once a day.

Our updates on cases will include:

• Cases from the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory​.
• Cases from commercial and out-of-state labs.
• Because confirmation from CDC is no longer required, we will simply report total number of cases and will remove earlier information about CDC confirmatory testing.
• Because reporting about travel and nature of illness isn’t available for cases reported from commercial labs, we are removing hospitalization status and information about travel to a country where COVID-19 is circulating.
• Because community transmission is now occurring in Oregon and new recommendations on social ​distancing​ are in place, we are no longer reporting daily counts of persons under monitoring.
  
• We will continue to track and report COVID-19 deaths.