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PORTLAND NEEDS WILLAMETTE WEEK. NOW WW NEEDS YOU. The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Our readers rely on our comprehensive news reporting. However, COVID-19 has eliminated most of the revenue that funds our work. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. For the past two weeks, wildfires have reduced the number of&nbsp;Oregonians who received&nbsp;COVID-19 tests. One result: a higher percentage of tests coming back positive. For the week&nbsp;beginning Sept. 13, 6.2% of tests came back positive, according to initial data. The previous week, it was 5.4%. The likely upshot? An even longer wait for school classrooms to reopen. Gov. Kate Brown&nbsp;has set a benchmark—less than 5% positivity on tests statewide for three consecutive weeks—as the target required for reopening schools. But wildfires made getting a COVID-19 test more difficult: Drive-thru testing sites closed amid smoke, for example. That meant that people who still sought testing were more likely to be sick, so the positivity rate increased. Fewer tests, with a higher positivity rate,&nbsp;hint that health officials have even less of an idea of where the disease is spreading. As a result of the wildfires,&nbsp;many Oregonians&nbsp;stayed home&nbsp;to avoid the smoke, which could reduce the spread of COVID-19. But at the same time, the state saw thousands of evacuations, including at state prisons, which could result in increased spread as&nbsp;people were sent from one&nbsp;location to another. Please enable JavaScript to view the Close

PORTLAND NEEDS WILLAMETTE WEEK. NOW WW NEEDS YOU. The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Our readers rely on our comprehensive news reporting. However, COVID-19 has eliminated most of the revenue that funds our work. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. For the past two weeks, wildfires have reduced the number of&nbsp;Oregonians who received&nbsp;COVID-19 tests. One result: a higher percentage of tests coming back positive. For the week&nbsp;beginning Sept. 13, 6.2% of tests came back positive, according to initial data....

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