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We've started publishing a series of stories and vignettes about those in Oregon who have had coronavirus.
I'll be sharing all of them in this thread as we continue to report them. Here's the first by my colleague @noellecrombie about a Beaverton couple. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregonians-with-coronavirus-its-definitely-the-worst-type-of-thing-that-i-have-ever-experienced.html
I'll be sharing all of them in this thread as we continue to report them. Here's the first by my colleague @noellecrombie about a Beaverton couple. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregonians-with-coronavirus-its-definitely-the-worst-type-of-thing-that-i-have-ever-experienced.html
Barbara Spencer's illness began as just an ordinary head cold.
Days later, the 77-year-old was on a ventilator at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center & fighting for her life against COVID-19.
Now a bit of good news: She's breathing on her own again. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregonians-with-coronavirus-tigard-woman-showing-signs-of-improvement-after-4-days-on-ventilator.html
Days later, the 77-year-old was on a ventilator at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center & fighting for her life against COVID-19.
Now a bit of good news: She's breathing on her own again. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregonians-with-coronavirus-tigard-woman-showing-signs-of-improvement-after-4-days-on-ventilator.html
Marcia Haug: Retired teacher, 90, celebrated as Rose Parade devotee, lover of nature and travel.
She died March 22. Had been a resident of Regency Park assisted living center in Washington County, where multiple people tested positive for COVID-19. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregonians-with-coronavirus-retired-teacher-90-celebrated-as-rose-parade-devotee-lover-of-nature-and-travel.html
She died March 22. Had been a resident of Regency Park assisted living center in Washington County, where multiple people tested positive for COVID-19. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregonians-with-coronavirus-retired-teacher-90-celebrated-as-rose-parade-devotee-lover-of-nature-and-travel.html
“I can’t comfort my children whom have lost their grandparents. I can’t hold a service for my parents or attend their burial. Funeral homes are closed." https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/vancouver-couple-married-for-52-years-dies-on-the-same-day-from-coronavirus.html
Leave it to a member of The Greatest Generation — five years shy of his 100th birthday — to kick COVID-19's butt.
In case you needed a feel-good story amid the current of muck.
Grandpa Bill might be your guy. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregonians-with-coronavirus-yamhill-county-veteran-95-battled-covid-19-and-won.html
In case you needed a feel-good story amid the current of muck.
Grandpa Bill might be your guy. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/03/oregonians-with-coronavirus-yamhill-county-veteran-95-battled-covid-19-and-won.html
Alina Banut of Southeast Portland is 42 and healthy. She had to spend days on a ventilator after contracting coronavirus. Now out of the hospital, she still struggles to even walk from her bed to the bathroom. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/oregonians-with-coronavirus-portland-woman-home-after-3-days-on-a-ventilator.html
William Lapschies, who lives at a veterans home in Lebanon, is likely the world's oldest coronavirus survivor. He celebrated his 104th birthday last week after kicking COVID-19's butt. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/oldest-coronavirus-survivor-oregon-veteran-lives-to-celebrate-104th-birthday.html
Just a quick reminder that this thread houses all of the profiles / stories by @Oregonian reporters about those in the state who have contracted COVID-19.
Lynn Bryan, 70, was a country-western dancer, an Army vet, a father & friend. He was the first person in Oregon to die of coronavirus. One of his best friends was also hospitalized from COVID-19 & learned of Lynn's passing while fighting for his own life. https://www.oregonlive.com/coronavirus/2020/04/oregons-first-coronavirus-death-occurred-3-weeks-ago-lynn-bryan-was-a-dancer-a-friend-a-cowboy-at-heart.html
