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A video of two Oregon health officials discussing the state’s coronavirus death toll left many viewers wondering if it was even real.
The eyebrow-raising video from the Oregon Public Health Division clearly missed the mark as one senior official delivered the sobering update on the number of people who have died as a result of COVID-19. But Claire Poche, a senior health adviser for the Oregon Health Authority, shared that there were three deaths that day from the virus and brought the update while dressed…as a clown.
“As of today, there have been 38,160 cases of COVID-19 in Oregon, with 390 new cases being reported today,” Poche said in the video of the virtual presentation.
“Sadly, we are also reporting three deaths today, bringing the statewide total for COVID-19-related deaths to 608,” the state health official wearing clown makeup shared.
A senior official with the Oregon Health Authority announced the daily covid death toll in the state while wearing clown makeup. Oregon literally has lunatics in clown costumes running their pandemic response. This does not surprise me at all.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 28, 2020
Poche was soon joined by senior adviser Shimi Sharief who appeared on camera wearing an animal onesie in the video that was also shred by a journalist at the Oregonian who called it “an absolute nightmare.”
this is an absolute nightmare: https://t.co/G77158h54U
— Samantha Swindler (@editorswindler) October 27, 2020
While the presentation had some kind of connection to Halloween, as Sharief provided alternatives to trick-or-treating in a pandemic and said it could “still be spooky and fun,” that fact was not clear at the start when the clown official delivered grim news of COVID-19 deaths.
“I’m sorry but who at the Oregon Health Authority thought this was a good idea?” the Oregonian’s Samantha Swindler asked on Twitter. “I get they were going for a ‘fun’ Halloween COVID update and they have a very hard job but this … this does not work.”
I’m sorry but who at the Oregon Health Authority thought this was a good idea? pic.twitter.com/xXHia14KSg
— Samantha Swindler (@editorswindler) October 27, 2020
I get they were going for a “fun” Halloween COVID update and they have a very hard job but this … this does not work.
— Samantha Swindler (@editorswindler) October 27, 2020
Swindler noted that one of the many “great” things that made the video so strange was the fact that the health officials never seemed to address their costumes in a presentation meant to deliver guidance and the facts.
“The clown is just THERE and she dives right into the numbers. AMAZING STUFF,” Swindler tweeted, hoping the doctors would not need to make any other videos.
Anyway, this tweet did some numbers. 🤣 Please wear a mask and physically distance so these poor doctors don’t have to make any more videos.
— Samantha Swindler (@editorswindler) October 28, 2020
Many viewers were in disbelief and questioned if the video, which was recorded on October 14, was a parody or had been altered.
“This is not a photoshop. Oregon’s public health authority announced COVID deaths in clown makeup,” journalist Ian Miles Cheong tweeted.
Others also chimed in on Twitter.
All of Oregon’s state government should be wearing clown costumes
— Coco Kaichō (@Plainswalker995) October 28, 2020
There has never been a shortage of clowns at OHA. Same for OHA’s birth mother DHS.
— Friday_Surprise (@Friday_Surprise) October 28, 2020
This feels like a skit from a show like The Office…
— Sassy Dungeon Master (COMMS OPEN) (@AussiSassyGob) October 27, 2020
I am going to learn sign language. The interpreters can be taken more seriously than the people they have to translate.
— Tec Sherman (@tec_sherman) October 28, 2020
This must be some kind of a prank.
There is *no way* this could be real.
— Angry Cardiologist (@AngryCardio) October 28, 2020
WTF?
Why? Who would think this was a good idea?
— QweenBea 🐝 (@BeaQween) October 27, 2020
Way to go Oregon, really setting the bar…
— Cole (@crcole50) October 28, 2020
I live in Oregon. This actually makes sense. The Governor should be required to wear a clown costume as well.
— Eli Ring, Author (@SteveAshby) October 28, 2020
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