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Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Oregon on February 28, 2020. On that day, Governor Kate Brown created a coronavirus response team; on March 8 she declared a state of emergency; and on March 23 she issued a statewide stay-at-home order with class C misdemeanor charges for violators.
The Justice Department emphasized religious freedom in the response of any state of local government to their COVID-19 responses and sided with the church. [220] [221] In July 2020, a federal judge blocked religious restrictions in New York State where they were limited to 25% while others operated at 50%.
Oregon’s coronavirus restrictions remained in place on Tuesday after the state supreme court blocked the ruling of a local judge, who tossed the governor’s emergency guidelines over logistical ...
Nationwide, several churches are suing to halt restrictions. “We recognize that the government has a right to impose reasonable public health rules,” he wrote in The Washington Post.
The Lighthouse Pentecostal Church is located in Island City, and was the site of a community COVID-19 outbreak over the weekend of June 13–14, 2020. By June 16 there were 236 cases linked to the church due to a wedding that weekend.
The Oregon Dental Association's annual Oregon Dental Conference for April 2–4 was canceled. [54] On March 9, the Burning Cat event being organized by the company behind the card game Exploding Kittens for May was canceled. [71] On March 14, the newspaper Portland Mercury suspended print publications until further notice. [72]
As many as 30 churches out of about 400 in the Greater Northwest Area, which includes Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, have been considering disaffiliating, according to the Rev. Karen ...