OR Gov. Kate Brown sends 140 ventilators to NY because "OR is in a better position right now."

[Amaryllis]

I am so proud of my governor. Made me cry when she said in the tweet, "We are all in this together."

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

"According to Oregon Health Authority experts, while we are definitely not out of the woods yet, our state's social distancing methods are paying off, and if we keep it up our hospitals will be able to handle the onslaught of COVID-19 cases that are coming our way. As of yesterday, Oregon has 899 confirmed cases of coronavirus (that we know of), and 22 deaths. For comparison purposes, Alabama—who only implemented social distancing orders yesterday—had roughly the same number of cases as Oregon last week, and now they are reporting almost twice as many.

Meanwhile, New York City is in crisis. In a press briefing yesterday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that 562 people had died over the previous 24 hours, and they will pass 3,000 deaths very soon. And the surge hasn't peaked yet. According to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio (via CNBC):

“We have gotten some ventilators in, but right now, we’re struggling to have enough for next week,” he said, adding that the city needs 15,000 additional ventilators to get through April and May.

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Our federal government has refused to take care of us. Governor Brown has the right idea: It's time to take care of ourselves and each other."

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2020/04/04/28244118/gov-kate-brown-to-send-ventilators-to-desperate-new-york

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBS) – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Saturday that Oregon will be sending 140 ventilators to New York State.

Cuomo described Oregon’s kind gesture as “astonishing and unexpected.”

https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/oregon-sending-ventilators-to-new-york/

[SheltieLover]

1. 👏👏👏👏👏

Awesome!

[Mike 03]

2. Heartwarming example of leadership and cooperation. nt

[RANDYWILDMAN]

3. That is my Gov!!!

So proud and she is LGBTQ. So open and caring

Thank you Governor Brown!!

[Amaryllis]

4. We are so fortunate to have her! :) What an example she is setting.

[calimary]

11. Yep! Mine, too!

When we moved, we went from having a Governor Brown to having a Governor Brown. From Jerry to Kate, specifically. As someone who lived through both sets of Jerry Brown terms (he served two terms, two times! From 1975 to 1983 and from 2011 to 2019) I remained a fan of his throughout. Voted for him four times!

[Brother Buzz]

5. And Team Trump? made a feeble attempt to take a victory lap for it yesterday

[customerserviceguy]

6. If I were an Oregonian

I'd be curious where the ventilators were coming from. If they're excess from Portland area hospitals, that's one thing, but if they're from a cache of supplies that would need to be quickly shipped to rural hospitals in an area that could become a hot spot, then that could come back to haunt the governor.

[Amaryllis]

7. THey project we have more than we will need. SHe started social distancing early on,

probably taking her cue from WA and CA, so it has gone much more slowly here.

[customerserviceguy]

8. And I certainly hope

that the success seen in WA and CA with distancing are replicated in Oregon. But I haven't heard of those two states sending medical supplies or equipment to the east coast.

[Amaryllis]

9. WA and CA were far harder hit, much earlier. OR learned from them and started social

distancing much earlier respectively . CA and WA don't have extra supplies to send. If you read the tweets, Gov. Brown is quite clear that we are short on some things but not on ventilators.

[calimary]

10. That's one of our asks here in my (Oregon) Indivisible group.

One of our asks that we wrote up, this past Saturday, was to thank Governor Brown for her generous and smart/smart and generous donation of those ventilators. Oregon STILL has several hundred of them, from what I've learned, 'cause we research this stuff and provide links to what we write. But in the meantime, the combination of wiser leadership and mandatory cautions, plus the fact that Oregon's population just isn't exactly what you'd call gargantuan, the tracking I've done indicates we're holding things down better than most, and doing it sooner.

Notice, the biggest noise virus-wise, seems to have originated in PRIME ports-of-entry from overseas. On both the West AND East Coasts. Seattle, San Francisco, New York City. First three spots. They have MAAAAAAAJOR ports for shipping and associated commerce. Trains, trucking, all sorts of transport are focused there. New York's is worst by far. And from those three spots, it metastasized everywhere, and is going to show up in different places at different times. By comparison, Oregon is kind of "off-the-beaten-path." And our population at 4.1 million, would fill almost one-third of a meal for L.A. County alone. California's population is now ten times Oregon. So we're getting there later.

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Data Visualizations
https://bit.ly/2X98Now
OREGON Peak Resource Use (click on “United States” for dropdown of all individual states)
When is our peak? April 21st
https://bit.ly/2xP53hk