OHA is revising its process for reporting test results to align with the new statewide framework announced last week by Governor Kate Brown. The change will take effect Thursday, Dec. 3. This new health and safety framework is based on four risk levels for counties level of COVID-19 spread: extreme, high, moderate and low risk. One of the key new metrics in determining the spread of the virus is the percentage of positive COVID-19 tests. To determine that, OHA will no longer count the people tested and will instead count test results. This change will provide a more complete picture of the spread of the disease in a community. To support this change, and to maintain transparency in reporting on COVID-19, OHA is changing its public dashboards. That transition is expected to be complete in about two weeks. During that time, OHA will continue to update its Tableau dashboards on weekdays. OHA has developed an interim dashboard that will report test results at the state and county levels until the new revised dashboard is deployed.
