Almost there?

[petrea_mitchell]

Our state health officials have announced that Oregon's indoor mask mandate will end on March 31 or earlier, depending on how the hospitalization numbers look.

We have some ways to go. Oregon was one of the last states to be hit by the omicron wave, and test positivity rates by county are mostly in the 15-20% range right now. (The rule of thumb is that if your positivity rate is over 5%, your case rate numbers are essentially meaningless because you are failing to detect them all.)

Still, it's nice to contemplate another lull coming. GameStorm is looking better and better timed.

Comments

[athenais]

I am so very much looking forward to not masking all the time. We'll be seeing a lot of rules lifted in the next couple of months here.

[joseph_teller]

Cases are down here, but deaths continue to pile up. It appears that there is a long-tail to the deaths from Covid, that you can be declared clear of it and still die from damage it has done to you days, weeks or months after the period you were infectious. This really needs to be studied, as there have been reports of permanent lung, heart and brain damage from the disease.