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COVID Hospitalizations Near 1,100 As Health Care Workers Pour Into Oregon

Forecasters predict that the surge caused by the delta variant will rapidly worsen and that hospitals in the state will run out of ICU and other beds.
August 25, 2021
 
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Nurse in scrubs bent over and crying.
Julie Kleese, RN, cries after sharing her experiences as an ICU nurse at OHSU Hospital. | HANIN NAJJAR/OPB

Oregon’s health care system is stretched nearly to breaking point as more than 1,000 Oregonians are now in hospitals with COVID-19.