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Lane County Officials Announce COVID-19 Cluster, Death, And 20 New Cases

KLCC | By Brian Bull

Published September 18, 2020 at 3:48 PM PDT

Lane County Public Health has announced 20 more positive cases of COVID-19, one new death, and a new workplace cluster.

The death was a 93-year-old woman in the Eugene-Springfield area, who died Thursday night. She’d not been hospitalized prior.

The workplace cluster is Creative Solutions Painting Company in Eugene. Six workers have tested positive for COVID-19. The county is working with the business to mitigate any further spread.

A total of 937 positive cases have been recorded in Lane County, which includes confirmed and presumptive cases. And the total deaths attributed to COVID-19 is now 15.

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Brian Bull is a part-time reporter for the KLCC News department, and first began working with the station in 2016. He's been a senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and a journalism professor at the University of Oregon.

In his 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (25 regional), the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from the Indigenous Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.

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