(Portland, OR)  --  Nearly four-dozen more Oregonians are dead after contracting COVID-19.  The Oregon Health Authority confirmed 44 new coronavirus deaths yesterday, raising the state's death toll from the pandemic to three-thousand-490.  The health department also reported two-thousand-40 new cases of COVID-19 and seven more hospitalizations for the virus, making for a total of one-thousand-82 people currently hospitalized.  Just 48 ICU beds are available statewide, which is seven-percent of the state's total number of ICU beds.