Oregon COVID-19 Breakthrough Cases Climb, Total Death Pass 4,500

WILSONVILLE, OR —There were 74 more COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon on Wednesday, according to the Oregon Health Authority. That pushed total deaths around the state to 4.543 since the pandemic began.

Meanwhile, the state reported 1,211 new cases, bringing the total to 371,001. More than 75 percent of the new cases have occurred in people who have not been vaccinated.

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Officials say that a concern in the new numbers is the continuing high percentage of breakthrough cases that the state is seeing. Of the 8,239 new cases reported during the week that ended October 30, 2,025 – 0r 24.6 percent of the total – were breakthrough cases.

While 50 of the new breakthrough cases were people living in senior living or other care facilities, that number was once again surpassed by the number of teens who had breakthrough cases. OHA says that 66 of the breakthrough were in people 12 through 17-years-old.

The "good" news about the breakthrough cases is that only 4.4 percent of them ended up hospitalized and only 1 percent have died.