Covid-19 Community Update: 20 Jan

Warm Springs, OR January 20, 2021

Contact: Louie Pitt, Jr.
Director Government Affairs & Planning
Email: louie.pitt@wstribes.org
Phones: 541-553-3540/541-777-1359

“As of 8:48 am, 1/20/2021 – Warm Springs Health and Wellness Center has sent in or tested 7358 Total Tests, 6668 Total Negative, 0 Test Pending, 663 Total Positive Cases, 27 Total Invalid, 75 Hospitalized, 71 Discharged, 19 Deaths, 75 Positive test from other facilities, 738 Total. 1/19 – a total of 108 tested, 4 new positive, 4 total positives for the week, 4 Current Hospitalization, 1 on ventilator, 0 death reported. St. Charles hospitals at 70.23% occupancy and ICS at 43.33%. There are currently 44 persons with active COVID-19 receiving daily monitoring by Tribal and HIS staff and 42 close contacts receiving daily monitoring by IHS staff. ” Hyllis D. Dauphinais, Sr., CEO, Warm Springs Health & Wellness Center, 541-553-2176 (Office).

NOTE ABOUT FLU – Our FLU vaccination rate continues to be very low at 22.89%.

IHS Report The positives for last week were 42 total second only to the 63 positives back in December 2020. Contact you provider/Doctor about your decision on whether to get a Covid-19 vaccination. The Moderna vaccination is one major tool to manage your health along with masking, social distancing, avoid gatherings, washing hands often………so please consider vaccination as it helps manage the spread of the deadly Covid-19 virus in our community.

For more information: https://www.ihs.gov/coronavirus/news
Stay Home Stay Safe

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