e PATCHYEdition DRIZZLE 68 • 55 | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2020 | theworldlink.com Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink Oregon to maximize testing capacity MAX KIRKENDALL Allen and Dr. Melissa Sutton, includes over 35,000 positive Gov. Brown said the rise in over again that COVID does not The News Guard Senior Health Advisor for OHA. cases in Oregon and 581 deaths cases was to be expected after discriminate, it doesn’t matter if “Because of COVID, this year, related to the virus. Allen said Labor Day weekend and the you are old or young, it doesn’t SALEM — Governor Kate we have learned to live with there has been a steady increase intense wildfires that forced matter your race, your political Brown said more COVID-19 separation, grief and ever-pres- of daily cases over the past few people from their homes. OHA beliefs or your religion. It doesn’t (coronavirus) testing is on its ent uncertainty. I know it hasn’t weeks, with a 25% increase since has a growing concern of seeing even matter if you’re president way to Oregon as daily case been easy,” Gov. Brown said Aug. 31. Oregon has recorded on more spikes in case counts as the of the United States. COVID can counts continue to rise statewide. in her opening remarks. “Par- average 285 new cases per day weather shifts and forces people find a way to any of us.” Ahead of the cold and rainy ents have really struggled with with a large portion stemming inside, where the virus spreads OHA continues to study the Oregon fall and winter seasons, difficult choices, sending kids to from social gatherings, according more easily. virus and find new ways to mit- Gov. Brown held a press confer- daycare or school, or continuing to OHA. “I can only imagine if we are igate the spread. One tool they ence today (Oct. 6) to discuss the the impossible task of working “We have reversed the sick of COVID and physical will be utilizing in the coming state’s effort to continue reduce from home while parenting and progress we made during the distancing now, it’s only going months will be the maximized the spread of the virus. The teaching.” summer,” Allen said. “Our latest to get harder as we enter the testing capacity coming from the governor was joined by Oregon Allen gave some of the latest modeling shows the virus is winter months ahead of us,” Gov. federal government. Gov. Brown Health Authority Director Pat statistics for COVID-19 that spreading more rapidly.” Brown said. “We see over and Please see Testing, Page 3 Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Delta made landfall Wednesday just south of the Mexican resort of Cancun as an extremely dangerous Catego- ry 2 storm, downing trees and knocking out power along the northeastern coast of Yucatan Peninsula, but without immediate reports of deaths or injuries. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said satellite im- agery, radar data from Cuba and surface observations in Mexico indicate that the center of Delta came ashore around 5:30 a.m. local time, sustaining top winds of 110 mph (175 kmh). Civil defense official Luís Alberto Ortega Vázquez said Photo courtesy of Daily Mirror there were no immediate reports To boldly go ... five miles deep to discover new species of ocean creature. of deaths or injuries, but Delta had toppled about 95 trees and knocked out electricity to parts of Cancun and Cozumel. Ortega said about 39,000 people had OIMB to present lecture series been evacuated in the states of http://www.uoregon.edu/~oimb. Quintana Roo and Yucatan, and The World that about 2,700 people had taken refuge in storm shelters in Additional information about CHARLESTON — The Ore- the two states. the speaker: gon Institute of Marine Biology Quintana Roo Gov. Carlos (OIMB) will resume its quarterly Dr. Alan Jamieson is a senior lecturer in deep-sea biology at Joaquín said Wednesday morning public lecture series this fall with that power had been knocked two public lectures, one from the Newcastle University, UK. He is the chief scientist on the 5-Deeps out to about half of customers in British Isles and a second from Cancun, Cozumel and Playa del South America. and Ring of Fire Expeditions (2018-2021). His research has Carmen. There were reports of The first, at 10 a.m. Thurs- some flooding in Cozumel and day, Oct. 8, will be presented by made him a world leader in the biological exploration of the Playa del Carmen. Overnight renowned deep-sea ecologist Dr. emergency calls came in from Alan Jamieson, who will offer hadal zone (depths exceeding 6,000 meters). He has designed people whose windows or doors a live and interactive lecture by were broken and they were taken Zoom, direct from Newcastle multiple Hadal-Landers and has deployed them over 450 times to shelters, he said. upon Tyne, England. Participants Joaquín said that within a can watch on their own com- in the ultra-deep subduction trenches and surrounding areas in couple of hours hotels that did puters, tablets or phones. The Marine expert Dr Alan Jamieson from Newcastle University aboad the tiny two-man not suffer serious damage could topic will be: “Exploration at full sub. all oceans. Dr. Jamieson has participated hopefully begin to bring their ocean depth: habitats and faunas guests back from shelters. The of the deepest places on Earth.” lecture will give participants the [email protected] with the in, and often led, over 65 deep- sea expeditions covering every storm was still over much of the Dr. Jamieson, the undisputed unique opportunity to preview words “OIMB public lecture” in state, but he said state officials world authority on the biology the science on which these pro- the heading. ocean and has been lucky enough to dive every ocean in a full would soon be evaluating dam- of deep ocean trenches, recently grams are based. Dr. Jamieson’s A recording of the lecture will age. led the highly publicized 5-seas significant discoveries include also be available for viewing on ocean depth rated submersible. He has published over 100 scien- Early Wednesday, guests of expeditions that explored the the deepest living fishes in the Thursday evening, Oct. 8, at any the Fiesta Americana Condesa deepest points in every ocean of ocean, supergiant amphipods time between 6-10 p.m. on the tific papers and sole authored the book “The Hadal Zone, life in hotel awoke in the sweltering the world. Jamieson will offer in the Mariana Trench, and the OIMB YouTube channel, https:// classrooms of the Technologi- eye-witness accounts of the presence of plastics in animals tinyurl.com/yxaxsn92. No pass- the deepest oceans” in 2015. The highlights of his work include cal Institute of Cancun campus Mariana Trench and other hadal from extreme depths. word is required for the evening where they had been moved depths worldwide based on more Members of the public can viewing. filming the deepest fish in the world multiple times, discover- Tuesday. than 65 oceanographic expedi- participate in the live broadcast A second public lecture on the All of the windows had been tions during his distinguished at 10 a.m. (early, because of the interface between science and art ing supergiant amphipods in the hadal zone, having a hadal spe- covered with plywood so they career. Next year, the 5-seas time difference with England) will be offered on Oct. 29. Fur- couldn’t see what was happen- expedition will be featured in a by requesting the Zoom link ther information is forthcoming. cies named after him and filming in the deepest places on Earth, ing, but they said the howling 5-part Discovery Channel series and password in advance. Send For more information on winds started around 2 a.m. and “Expedition Deep Ocean.” His an e-mail to Dr. Craig Young at OIMB, visit their web site at Please see Lecture, Page 3 there had been heavy rain. The power — and with it the air con- ditioning — had been knocked Pence-Harris hold vice president debate tonight out early Wednesday so it was steamy as tourists used their cell SALT LAKE CITY (AP) tion’s handling of the pandemic. the virus and Biden, at 77, would to wear a mask will be asked to phone light to get up and make — Vice President Mike Pence For Harris, the debate is her become the oldest person elected leave. their way for a first cup of coffee. and his Democratic challenger, highest profile opportunity to president. Pence was with Trump and “The hard part has been the California Sen. Kamala Harris, say how Democratic presidential Pence’s debate strategy aims others last week who have since waiting,” said Ana Karen Ro- are set to face off in a debate that nominee Joe Biden would stabi- to highlight the administration’s tested positive, and the vice dríguez of Monterrey. She and a will offer starkly different visions lize the United States, especially economic record and attempt to president has faced questions friend arrived in Cancun Tuesday for a country confronting escalat- when it comes to the pandemic portray the Democratic ticket as about whether he should be at the morning and by afternoon were ing crises. and racial injustice. She will beholden to “radical left,” said debate at all. Pence has repeated- shuttled to the shelter. She said The debate Wednesday night have the chance to explain her former GOP Gov.