I Get Another Week Off

Oregon's governor Kate Brown announced that ALL schools statewide will be closed starting this coming Monday, March 16, and they will not be open for students again until April 1, at least in my school district.

However, I am lucky I will be paid for next week, and we do not have to make the days up.  I am hoping my trip to the Redwoods is still on for the first full week of June.

Oregon now has 30 confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Friday the state doesn’t have the testing capacity or equipment it needs to fight the COVID-19 disease. And she was quick to blame the federal government for what she described as a slow response.

“We need more capacity,” Brown said, noting that there were five private labs the state has certified that are in the process of ordering materials.

Brown also criticized the current testing process as too intensive. She dismissed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new, faster test from Roche.

“Honestly, it’s too little too late and it’s absolutely inadequate,” she said.