(Portland, OR)  --  Over two-dozen more Oregonians are dead after contracting COVID-19.  The Oregon Health Authority confirmed 27 new coronavirus deaths yesterday, raising the state's death toll from the pandemic to three-thousand-248.  The health department also reported two-thousand-449 new cases of COVID-19.  Hospitalizations for COVID-19 dipped by 47, making for a total of one-thousand-131 patients currently being hospitalized for coronavirus.  Officials say 94-percent of the state's ICU beds are currently filled.