The coronavirus stronghold on Oregon could persist at current record-setting case counts or potentially surge to 1,000 new infections a day before the Fourth of July, according to state modeling released Friday.

Oregon’s top epidemiologist said he’s as anxious as he’s ever been since the pandemic hit here four months ago.

That’s because the state’s trajectory suggests many more Oregonians will soon become infected, with the potential to once again overwhelm contact tracers needed to contain spread of the highly communicable virus.

“It would be very difficult for us to contain with the same level of attention that we’d like to as we open up,” Dr. Dean Sidelinger said of 1,000 new cases a…