Oregon county asks for morgue truck as COVID fatalities rises
Source: AssociatedPress
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Noting that the COVID delta variant “is spreading like wildfire among the unvaccinated in our community,” the leaders of an Oregon coastal county said Friday they no longer have capacity to store the bodies of those who have died and are asking the state for a refrigerated morgue truck.
“The spread of COVID in Tillamook County has reached a critical phase,” the county board of commissioners said in a statement. They said that from Aug. 18 to Aug. there were six new COVID-19 deaths in the county, surpassing the five total COVID-19 deaths that occurred during the first 18 months of the pandemic.
“That is six tragic deaths in six days. We grieve for our friends and neighbors and their families. We are so very sorry for your loss,” Commissioners Mary Faith Bell, David Yamamoto and Erin Skaar wrote.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/business-health-oregon-coronavirus-pandemic-5e10ea74d1c2585efa4aa822529a1394
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and like many rural counties here in PA, they assumed they had a force field around them to protect them. A year ago, the rates were "low(er) " for them so they figured they were "out of the woods" and ha ha for those urbanites.
It's just sad so much preventable death and destruction. But. Because. "Politics".
I saw that Oregon also reinstated an OUTDOOR mask mandate (vaccinated or not) that went into effect Friday. I also saw this from the OP article link -
Pennsylvania just reported 3,509 positives yesterday (total 1,288,041 since the beginning of the pandemic) and Oregon reported 3,207 the same day (total 268,401 since the beginning of the pandemic).
The state of Oregon has a population of 4.3 million. The state of Pennsylvania has a population of 13.1 million.
You do the math.
