{"id":11878,"date":"2024-08-19T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11878"},"modified":"2024-08-20T09:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:34:14","slug":"oregon-at-highest-levels-of-covid-infection-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11878","title":{"rendered":"Oregon at highest levels of Covid infections in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oregon is one of seven states with highest levels of COVID-19 detected in its wastewater. Monitoring wastewater is a reliable method of determining the COVID-19 infection rates in the general population for a given area.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nwss\/rv\/COVID19-currentlevels.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" data-attachment-id=\"11879\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=11879\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?fit=1463%2C845&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1463,845\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?fit=640%2C369&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?resize=640%2C369&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11879\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?resize=1024%2C591&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?resize=768%2C444&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?resize=467%2C270&amp;ssl=1 467w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?w=1463&amp;ssl=1 1463w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/image-5.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Interactive map of current viral activity levels of SARS-COV-2 in wastewater<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The CDC&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nwss\/rv\/COVID19-currentlevels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most recent figures<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from July 11 show an activity level of 10 across 23 wastewater treatment plants in Oregon with recorded data. Activity is classified as \u201cvery high\u201d once it exceeds level eight. Oregon Health Authority\u2019s respiratory virus databoard recorded an 8.9% rate of positive COVID-19 tests. The rate hadn\u2019t been that high since mid-February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>45% of Oregon communities have COVID-19 wastewater levels in an increasing or sustained increasing pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the turn of 2024, new strain JN.1. \u2014 a variant of Omicron \u2014 made up 86% of Oregon\u2019s COVID-19 cases<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nwss\/rv\/COVID19-currentlevels.html\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nwss\/rv\/COVID19-currentlevels.html<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/health\/oregon-one-of-seven-states-with-very-high-levels-of-covid-19-in-wastewater-07172024\/amp\/\">https:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/health\/oregon-one-of-seven-states-with-very-high-levels-of-covid-19-in-wastewater-07172024\/amp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon is one of seven states with highest levels of COVID-19 detected in its wastewater. Monitoring wastewater is a reliable method of determining the COVID-19 infection rates in the general population for a given area. The CDC&#8217;s\u00a0most recent figures\u00a0from July 11 show an activity level of 10 across 23 wastewater treatment plants in Oregon with recorded data. Activity is classified as \u201cvery high\u201d once it exceeds level eight. Oregon Health Authority\u2019s respiratory virus databoard recorded an 8.9% rate of positive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11878\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-35A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12027,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11878\/revisions\/12027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}