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<\/a>One of the who tested positive on Monday is Joseph Dibee, according to his attorney Matt Schindler.<\/strong><\/p>\nOn Dec. 17, Dibee told Schindler he was feeling sick. But Schindler wasn\u2019t worried about COVID-19. Those weekly reports had shown no cases, even the most recent report on Monday.<\/p>\n
On Dec. 19, Dibee lost his sense of taste and smell, which Shindler said he reported to jail staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called medical and said \u2018hey my client has lost his sense of taste and smell. Don\u2019t you need to test him? I\u2019m worried he has coronavirus,\u2019\u201d Schindler recalled.<\/p>\n
He said he didn\u2019t hear anything back.<\/p>\n
The next day, jail staff tested Dibee for strep throat, Schindler said. On Monday, Dibee was finally tested for COVID-19, which Schindler learned from Dibee late Monday that he had tested positive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still haven\u2019t heard anything from federal prosecutors about this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Oregon didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Sullivan-Springhetti said state and federal privacy laws prohibit her from commenting on individual cases, but said in general the county has followed its health protocols in these most recent outbreaks in the jails. She said everyone who gets booked into the jails are screened, as well as on-going screening, like temperature checks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen a case is identified, plans for rapid testing, isolation and quarantine are developed in direct consultation with the Multnomah County Communicable Disease investigations team and Multnomah County Health Officer,\u201d she said. \u201cPublic Health has not linked any MCSO staff cases to the adult in custody cases so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since the pandemic began, 32 of the 800 Multnomah County Sheriff\u2019s Office employees have tested positive across seven different locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cluster of COVID-19 cases in Multnomah County jail appears to grow by Conrad Wilson OPB.org Multnomah County is currently dealing with its largest outbreak of COVID-19 inside its jails since the pandemic began. As of Wednesday, nine inmates across two facilities had tested positive. The sheriff\u2019s office announced an initial case on Dec. 17, stating … <\/p>\n