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kukblue1 05-11-2020, 01:32 PM Numbers updated for Monday:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/corona051120a.jpg
24? How Big of a jump do we see tomorrow? Over 150 would be my guess.
EastCoastGator 05-11-2020, 02:59 PM 24? How Big of a jump do we see tomorrow? Over 150 would be my guess.
Damn bruh, it almost seems like your'e rooting for more? What's the point of your guesstimation; do you work at the fair?
jdizzle 05-11-2020, 03:09 PM 24? How Big of a jump do we see tomorrow? Over 150 would be my guess.
I agree with EC Gator. Maybe the virus is lessening, for many different reasons in Oklahoma.
Or maybe you are right. Just not sure why people are rooting for an increase in cases. Not you, in particular. I have friends who are almost rooting for them, so things will close (since they feel things reopened too quickly).
OKC Guy 05-11-2020, 03:24 PM Only 4 states are at or above R1, and they are 1.00, 1.01, 1.04 and 1.05 (so barely above). 46 states are below.
Oklahoma broke below 1.00 on Mar 29 at .99 and has been below ever since
Rt Covid-19
These are up-to-date values for Rt, a key measure of how fast the virus is growing. It’s the average number of people who become infected by an infectious person. If Rt is above 1.0, the virus will spread quickly. When Rt is below 1.0, the virus will stop spreading
https://rt.live/
kukblue1 05-11-2020, 03:31 PM Damn bruh, it almost seems like your'e rooting for more? What's the point of your guesstimation; do you work at the fair?
Not cheering for anything just spitting Truth which I know a lot of people don't want to hear. They has always been a jump in numbers from Monday to Tuesday. April 27th-28th. Look at April 8th and 9th. Even though I think that was a Wednesday Thursday after a very low number we had a huge jump the next day. I hope not I hope we stay under 100 for a long time but I'm not going to get shocked if it's near 150 tomorrow.
Here’s a very good article from Santa Fe New Mexican on understanding growth rates of Covid-19, scroll done to look at OK
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/dashboard-data-shows-virus-still-spreading-in-every-state/article_41e63a10-9075-11ea-a177-8f926e810cbf.html
OKC Guy 05-11-2020, 04:10 PM Here’s a very good article from Santa Fe New Mexican on understanding growth rates of Covid-19, scroll done to look at OK
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/dashboard-data-shows-virus-still-spreading-in-every-state/article_41e63a10-9075-11ea-a177-8f926e810cbf.html
My opinion is his data is flawed because he does not account for increased testing. Increased testing will reflect more cases, but does not mean its spreading
Brad72 05-11-2020, 04:27 PM Here’s a very good article from Santa Fe New Mexican on understanding growth rates of Covid-19, scroll done to look at OK
https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/coronavirus/dashboard-data-shows-virus-still-spreading-in-every-state/article_41e63a10-9075-11ea-a177-8f926e810cbf.html
Solution: Don't test anyone and there will be a zero-percent growth. Congratulations, you can now open your state.
soonerguru 05-12-2020, 10:31 AM My opinion is his data is flawed because he does not account for increased testing. Increased testing will reflect more cases, but does not mean its spreading
Basically, all of the data is flawed. We have conducted 96,000 tests. But how many people were retested multiple times? My coworker contracted the virus and retested four times herself.
There are many metrics to analyze. I'm glad we have conducted 96,000 tests. But that is like 2% of Oklahoma's population, and that doesn't tell us how many individuals were actually tested.
Witnessing what is happening in Texas County is alarming. They had like 10 cases a couple of weeks ago and now have nearly 500. It just shows how quickly things can change.
Perhaps we will learn that the virus is most lethal for spreading right when it first reaches a community, as it did in OKC in late February / Early March. However, in other countries where it appears they have reduced new transmissions to a greater degree than we have in Oklahoma, it has come back.
The point is we don't really know. What we do know is there are an awful lot of people acting like this thing is over and doing absolutely nothing to mitigate the spread of it, so it will be very surprising if we do not begin to see a new spike in the next week or so.
I suspect that almost everyone who posts on this forum is still practicing safety.
Updated for Tuesday:
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PoliSciGuy 05-12-2020, 11:44 AM Updated for Tuesday:
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I really wish they reported total # of tests done or what percentage of tests came back as positive. While rising raw number of cases isn't great, if it's due to a significant increase in our testing it's actually a bit of good news and adds important context.
It doesn't really add much context though. One person test positive and goes into quarantine, they have to have two negative tests to show they've recovered. You have one person that has taken 3 test and 2 show negative.
Ohwiseone 05-12-2020, 11:54 AM What is worrying me is that hospitalizations went up from 177 on Friday to 180.
While 3 isn't a massive increase, still something to watch.
PoliSciGuy 05-12-2020, 11:55 AM It doesn't really add much context though. One person test positive and goes into quarantine, they have to have two negative tests to show they've recovered. You have one person that has taken 3 test and 2 show negative.
It adds a ton of context. If we see an increase of 100 cases with, say 5,000 tests that's substantially different from seeing an increase of 100 cases with 50,000 tests. It drastically changes the calculus of how widespread the virus is and what the underlying cause of case increase is. If the root cause is we're just testing more, that's good news! If the root cause is that more and more people are becoming positive with the same number of tests, that's alarming! The former enables us to reopen sooner, the latter requires us to probably re-implement lockdown measures.
HangryHippo 05-12-2020, 12:00 PM It adds a ton of context. If we see an increase of 100 cases with, say 5,000 tests that's substantially different from seeing an increase of 100 cases with 50,000 tests. It drastically changes the calculus of how widespread the virus is and what the underlying cause of case increase is. If the root cause is we're just testing more, that's good news! If the root cause is that more and more people are becoming positive with the same number of tests, that's alarming! The former enables us to reopen sooner, the latter requires us to probably re-implement lockdown measures.
Do they breakdown the number of tests that are repeats on the same people? That's key information as well.
jn1780 05-12-2020, 12:08 PM Basically, all of the data is flawed. We have conducted 96,000 tests. But how many people were retested multiple times? My coworker contracted the virus and retested four times herself.
There are many metrics to analyze. I'm glad we have conducted 96,000 tests. But that is like 2% of Oklahoma's population, and that doesn't tell us how many individuals were actually tested.
Witnessing what is happening in Texas County is alarming. They had like 10 cases a couple of weeks ago and now have nearly 500. It just shows how quickly things can change.
Perhaps we will learn that the virus is most lethal for spreading right when it first reaches a community, as it did in OKC in late February / Early March. However, in other countries where it appears they have reduced new transmissions to a greater degree than we have in Oklahoma, it has come back.
The point is we don't really know. What we do know is there are an awful lot of people acting like this thing is over and doing absolutely nothing to mitigate the spread of it, so it will be very surprising if we do not begin to see a new spike in the next week or so.
I suspect that almost everyone who posts on this forum is still practicing safety.
There has been a lot of outbreaks at meat processing plants. The Seaboard Farms plant is a vector for Texas county.
Bill Robertson 05-12-2020, 12:17 PM I really wish they reported total # of tests done or what percentage of tests came back as positive. While rising raw number of cases isn't great, if it's due to a significant increase in our testing it's actually a bit of good news and adds important context.The OSDH does list the daily number of tests reported in the daily “Executive Report”. The graph below is a 5 day running average of number of positive results per 1000 test results.
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PoliSciGuy 05-12-2020, 12:22 PM The OSDH does list the daily number of tests reported in the daily “Executive Report”. The graph below is a 5 day running average of number of positive results per 1000 test results.
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Awesome, thank you! And a 3% positivity rate (and dropping) is really good news. If that trend keeps up through the end of the week we may avoid an imminent second wave from reopening
Ohwiseone 05-12-2020, 12:30 PM Also, another bit of good news.
The recovery numbers were higher than the new infection numbers. I think this the third time in the last week this has happened.
mkjeeves 05-12-2020, 12:40 PM Press release today OCCHD
Spike in positive COVID-19 cases attributed to long-term care facilities
(Oklahoma City) - Today’s increase in positive COVID-19 cases in Oklahoma County is directly attributed to COVID-19 outbreaks at three long-term care facilities.
“We’ve expected outbreaks to occur in nursing facilities, and have been driving testing and staff resources to these facilities since mid-April as part of Governor Stitt’s initiative to test all long-term care residents and staff by the end of May,” said Executive Director of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department (OCCHD), Dr. Patrick McGough.
Positive case counts in the general population trend up and down dependent upon lab capacity, and the frequency of the lab reporting the results. On some days, hundreds of lab results will be reported in one day, which can drive positive rates up, and another day the labs may have very few results to report, driving case counts down.
Oklahoma is one of the few states that includes long-term care COVID-19 test results in overall case statistics, which do not necessarily reflect the impact of COVID-19 in the general population.
“As our long-term care testing grows, we expect to see increased positive case counts, which is not unique to Oklahoma County,” added Dr. McGough. “We are closely watching hospitalization rates as a key indicator of how the virus is spreading in the general population, and so far this month, hospitalization rates continue trending downward, which is a good sign.”
OCCHD has a team of 24 individuals currently sampling residents and staff in facilities across Oklahoma County.
https://www.occhd.org/COVID-19
kukblue1 05-12-2020, 01:01 PM What is worrying me is that hospitalizations went up from 177 on Friday to 180.
While 3 isn't a massive increase, still something to watch.
? I think that's a good number it was 233 I think just a couple days ago anyway starting about the 15th is when we really need to see what the numbers are doing because that's when we're going to start seeing what the opening has done. Couple days out an about. 5 to 9 days to get symptoms (on average) couple days to get a test couple days to get the results.
OKC Guy 05-12-2020, 01:12 PM This from post 2,300 article:
“Oklahoma is one of the few states that includes long-term care COVID-19 test results in overall case statistics, which do not necessarily reflect the impact of COVID-19 in the general population.”
So that means our rates compared to other states are unfairly compared. Meaning we add the most vulnerable group to reports where other states are not. This is actually good news meaning our real general population rates are lower.
Thats how I read it. And its good we reported factually no data catching up to do so to speak.
PhiAlpha 05-12-2020, 02:34 PM Updated for Tuesday:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/corona051220a.jpg
Encouraging that we seemingly avoided the usual large Tuesday spike in hospitalizations and deaths.
soonerguru 05-12-2020, 02:42 PM I really wish they reported total # of tests done or what percentage of tests came back as positive. While rising raw number of cases isn't great, if it's due to a significant increase in our testing it's actually a bit of good news and adds important context.
Referencing my post above, a handful of people have been tested numerous times, so we don't really know how many people have been tested. Also, even in Guymon, home to the biggest outbreak in the state, they are only getting about 40 people a day tested. There is still test rationing going on.
The coworker I mentioned has never received a final test showing herself to be negative. They quit testing her when her symptoms went away, but like I said, she had had multiple tests.
100,000 "specimens" out of 4 million people is just not much to draw from. Also take into account that as many as 25% of negative test results turn out to be false negatives, as happened in the White House last week. Katie Miller, Pence's spokesperson, tested negative on Thursday, then positive on Friday. So there are probably hundreds of test results that came back negative in Oklahoma for someone whom later tested positive.
It is absurd we are still even having a conversation about the lack of testing right now. This is a massive, colossal policy blunder.
We need the capacity to test everyone. Certain workplaces need the capacity to test and retest to ensure safety (like meat plants and the White House).
Trump has figured out he needs to test his staff daily now to ensure his own safety. Not sure why he wouldn't see the value in that approach beyond his office.
jdizzle 05-12-2020, 02:45 PM Referencing my post above, a handful of people have been tested numerous times, so we don't really know how many people have been tested. Also, even in Guymon, home to the biggest outbreak in the state, they are only getting about 40 people a day tested. There is still test rationing going on.
The coworker I mentioned has never received a final test showing herself to be negative. They quit testing her when her symptoms went away, but like I said, she had had multiple tests.
100,000 "specimens" out of 4 million people is just not much to draw from. Also take into account that as many as 25% of negative test results turn out to be false negatives, as happened in the White House last week. Katie Miller, Pence's spokesperson, tested negative on Thursday, then positive on Friday. So there are probably hundreds of test results that came back negative in Oklahoma for someone whom later tested positive.
It is absurd we are still even having a conversation about the lack of testing right now. This is a massive, colossal policy blunder.
We need the capacity to test everyone. Certain workplaces need the capacity to test and retest to ensure safety (like meat plants and the White House).
Trump has figured out he needs to test his staff daily now to ensure his own safety. Not sure why he wouldn't see the value in that approach beyond his office.
So basically we can't take any results seriously, unless they are positive? I am wondering what the % of false positives is. I honestly don't know. But the constant fear mongering and almost hope that any positivity is fake news is starting to wear on people.
PoliSciGuy 05-12-2020, 02:50 PM Referencing my post above, a handful of people have been tested numerous times, so we don't really know how many people have been tested. Also, even in Guymon, home to the biggest outbreak in the state, they are only getting about 40 people a day tested. There is still test rationing going on.
The coworker I mentioned has never received a final test showing herself to be negative. They quit testing her when her symptoms went away, but like I said, she had had multiple tests.
100,000 "specimens" out of 4 million people is just not much to draw from. Also take into account that as many as 25% of negative test results turn out to be false negatives, as happened in the White House last week. Katie Miller, Pence's spokesperson, tested negative on Thursday, then positive on Friday. So there are probably hundreds of test results that came back negative in Oklahoma for someone whom later tested positive.
It is absurd we are still even having a conversation about the lack of testing right now. This is a massive, colossal policy blunder.
We need the capacity to test everyone. Certain workplaces need the capacity to test and retest to ensure safety (like meat plants and the White House).
Trump has figured out he needs to test his staff daily now to ensure his own safety. Not sure why he wouldn't see the value in that approach beyond his office.
I wholly agree with you with the need to expand testing. I was merely stating that knowing the overall number of tests and/or positivity rate adds needed context to the spread of the disease compared to just knowing the raw number of cases: https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1259912108155625472
If the positive test rate is falling, then we know AT LEAST one of two GOOD things is happening.
Either infections are falling OR we've figured out how to do more widespread testing, or both.
d-usa 05-12-2020, 03:42 PM So basically we can't take any results seriously, unless they are positive? I am wondering what the % of false positives is. I honestly don't know. But the constant fear mongering and almost hope that any positivity is fake news is starting to wear on people.
The sensitivity for most tests looking for viral RNA is pretty high, it’s the specificity that’s a problem for many of them.
Bill Robertson 05-12-2020, 03:45 PM Encouraging that we seemingly avoided the usual large Tuesday spike in hospitalizations and deaths.
Two Tuesdays in a row. And today was even with the explanation of three long term care facilities numbers being added in.
happyday 05-12-2020, 04:02 PM My boss has invited everyone back to work. It has been a two month furlough. He wants a voluntary return to work. In other words, you can stay out an undefined longer period of time. I do office work where I must interview 14 different people every day. Here's my question to everyone. In central Oklahoma, has the probability of infection to me increased or decreased since my mid-March furlough? (I've been staying at home except for groceries.) They talk about 'flattening the curve'. But has the curve actually gone down measured month to month?
PoliSciGuy 05-12-2020, 04:07 PM My boss has invited everyone back to work. It has been a two month furlough. He wants a voluntary return to work. In other words, you can stay out an undefined longer period of time. I do office work where I must interview 14 different people every day. Here's my question to everyone. In central Oklahoma, has the probability of infection to me increased or decreased since my mid-March furlough? (I've been staying at home except for groceries.) They talk about 'flattening the curve'. But has the curve actually gone down measured month to month?
It's decreased. Well, it's probably the same as it was in mid-March but it's gone up and back down since then. Our R0 is under 1, hospitalizations have decreased to the point where we're discharging more people than taking in and a significant proportion of what cases we do have are from nursing homes.
kukblue1 05-12-2020, 04:23 PM My boss has invited everyone back to work. It has been a two month furlough. He wants a voluntary return to work. In other words, you can stay out an undefined longer period of time. I do office work where I must interview 14 different people every day. Here's my question to everyone. In central Oklahoma, has the probability of infection to me increased or decreased since my mid-March furlough? (I've been staying at home except for groceries.) They talk about 'flattening the curve'. But has the curve actually gone down measured month to month?
Depends I guess on if your healthy and low risk. The death rate I think for people in Oklahoma is .5% for under the age 50. No worse then probably the flu in that age group. I just looked up Indiana numbers and I have family there and death rate there for people under 40 is .8% Both states go up in the 50-60 range and really go up from 65 and up.
kukblue1 05-12-2020, 05:06 PM Well Just what i thought. They are starting to slow down on testing so the labs can catch up. So yeah we might be doing more testing but they labs can only process so many a day. So just because our percentage is going down how back logged are we?
Bill Robertson 05-12-2020, 05:44 PM Well Just what i thought. They are starting to slow down on testing so the labs can catch up. So yeah we might be doing more testing but they labs can only process so many a day. So just because our percentage is going down how back logged are we?Yesterdays report (rounded) 2800 tests reported, 4700 results pending. But there’s really no reason to believe the pending won’t run about the same percentage positive.
Edit: Today’s just posted. 3200 complete, 4900 pending.
kukblue1 05-12-2020, 06:37 PM How are they coming up with the 2 under Hospitalized? The Executive Order reports shows 190 in Hospital with the 5-11 report (counting under investigation) and on the 5-12 report it shows 218. That's an increase of 28. What am I not seeing here?
soonerguru 05-13-2020, 07:50 AM nm
soonerguru 05-13-2020, 07:51 AM Two Tuesdays in a row. And today was even with the explanation of three long term care facilities numbers being added in.
We didn’t avoid them. For some reason the Oklahoma Department of Health is not reporting hospitalizations in Texas County, where a massive outbreak is occurring. I have no idea why they would not.
I got this information from a press release by the Texas County Emergency Management office. You can read it yourself on their Facebook page.
Again, why would OSDH not report hospitalizations from that county? I would be surprised if there were less than 100 from that county alone.
soonerguru 05-13-2020, 07:57 AM It's decreased. Well, it's probably the same as it was in mid-March but it's gone up and back down since then. Our R0 is under 1, hospitalizations have decreased to the point where we're discharging more people than taking in and a significant proportion of what cases we do have are from nursing homes.
When hospitalizations are not being reported for the county with the largest outbreak in the state, you can take that hospitalization data and chuck it. It is worthless.
Martin 05-13-2020, 08:26 AM When hospitalizations are not being reported for the county with the largest outbreak in the state, you can take that hospitalization data and chuck it. It is worthless.
i don't see where osdh is reporting the total hospitalizations for any individual county... point me to the data if you have access. i suspect that the release is a bit poorly worded. hospitalizations for texas county patients are being reported in the state totals but the individual rate for texas county (as with all oklahoma counties) is not being reported.
FighttheGoodFight 05-13-2020, 08:59 AM i don't see where osdh is reporting the total hospitalizations for any individual county... point me to the data if you have access. i suspect that the release is a bit poorly worded. hospitalizations for texas county patients are being reported in the state totals but the individual rate for texas county (as with all oklahoma counties) is not being reported.
I was going to look on coronavirus.ok.gov as I figured they would have that information. They have a line graph for hospitalizations but it is the only stat you can't break down and see more. How strange.
Martin 05-13-2020, 09:15 AM I was going to look on coronavirus.ok.gov as I figured they would have that information. They have a line graph for hospitalizations but it is the only stat you can't break down and see more. How strange.
this is exactly what i saw.
i think the county data for cases/deaths is correlated to patient residence... which would make sense in determining the infection levels of places that people live and likely work. however, given the severity of symptoms and proximity to medical resources, that patient may require hospitalization in an entirely different location... that is, a patient who lives and works around guymon may require treatment in enid or oklahoma city depending on the severity of symptoms. outside of capacity, the county of hospitalization may therefore provide information that confuses the analysis process. this is just my best guess, so take it with a grain of salt!
Jersey Boss 05-13-2020, 09:36 AM this is exactly what i saw.
i think the county data for cases/deaths is correlated to patient residence... which would make sense in determining the infection levels of places that people live and likely work. however, given the severity of symptoms and proximity to medical resources, that patient may require hospitalization in an entirely different location... that is, a patient who lives and works around guymon may require treatment in enid or oklahoma city depending on the severity of symptoms. outside of capacity, the county of hospitalization may therefore provide information that confuses the analysis process. this is just my best guess, so take it with a grain of salt!
My guess is Guymon patients would go to Amarillo before Enid or OKC as it would be closer.
Bill Robertson 05-13-2020, 09:47 AM We didn’t avoid them. For some reason the Oklahoma Department of Health is not reporting hospitalizations in Texas County, where a massive outbreak is occurring. I have no idea why they would not.
I got this information from a press release by the Texas County Emergency Management office. You can read it yourself on their Facebook page.
Again, why would OSDH not report hospitalizations from that county? I would be surprised if there were less than 100 from that county alone.
100? Why so many. Based on the percentage of positive cases vs hospitalizations statewide there would be about 9.
Martin 05-13-2020, 09:48 AM My guess is Guymon patients would go to Amarillo before Enid or OKC as it would be closer.
good point... which would make the county of hospitalization even more confusing since the treating facility would be out of state.
soonerguru 05-13-2020, 10:26 AM 100? Why so many. Based on the percentage of positive cases vs hospitalizations statewide there would be about 9.
I was basing that on “recoveries.” You are probably right or perhaps it is somewhere between the two.
soonerguru 05-13-2020, 10:46 AM My boss has invited everyone back to work. It has been a two month furlough. He wants a voluntary return to work. In other words, you can stay out an undefined longer period of time. I do office work where I must interview 14 different people every day. Here's my question to everyone. In central Oklahoma, has the probability of infection to me increased or decreased since my mid-March furlough? (I've been staying at home except for groceries.) They talk about 'flattening the curve'. But has the curve actually gone down measured month to month?
Not really. If so it is marginally less. It has mostly flattened. With the lag in getting test results it is hard to say. I don’t know what to tell you about being safe in that role except wondering if you can conduct the interviews via Teams or Skype.
The numbers for today continue the downward trend. I hope that is the new reality.
Ohwiseone 05-13-2020, 11:23 AM Higher Recoveries than positives again today.
Hopeful this continues.
Brad72 05-13-2020, 11:28 AM The numbers for today continue the downward trend. I hope that is the new reality.
I think we will definitely see some spiking or hot spots with the newer openings. I just hope they create a panic and they lock things back down. Small spikes are just going to be a reality.
Updated for Wednesday:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/corona051320a.jpg
soonerguru 05-13-2020, 12:02 PM It's really hard to say if we are going down or up. The backlog in getting test results makes any argument one way or the other problematic.
jedicurt 05-13-2020, 12:03 PM Updated for Wednesday:
http://www.okctalk.com/images/pete/corona051320a.jpg
yikes... another 120... but that could be that we are just testing more? i honestly don't know how the number of testing has increased over the past few days. if it hasn't, then this is a sign that the other two numbers are probably going to creep up a bit more in the next few days
soonerguru 05-13-2020, 12:05 PM this is exactly what i saw.
i think the county data for cases/deaths is correlated to patient residence... which would make sense in determining the infection levels of places that people live and likely work. however, given the severity of symptoms and proximity to medical resources, that patient may require hospitalization in an entirely different location... that is, a patient who lives and works around guymon may require treatment in enid or oklahoma city depending on the severity of symptoms. outside of capacity, the county of hospitalization may therefore provide information that confuses the analysis process. this is just my best guess, so take it with a grain of salt!
I'm not sure how they would track this. I have read that people in Guymon and the Panhandle are being sent to hospitals in Woodward, for example. I would expect some are going to Liberal, KS as well as Amarillo hospitals. How would those out-of-state hospitalizations be recorded?
jerrywall 05-13-2020, 12:14 PM yikes... another 120... but that could be that we are just testing more? i honestly don't know how the number of testing has increased over the past few days. if it hasn't, then this is a sign that the other two numbers are probably going to creep up a bit more in the next few days
Not just increased testing but targeted testing at the long term care facilities. The goal is to test every resident and staff member at every long term care facility. That's going to inflate the numbers. However, someone did the math recently on here and compared the increase in the number of tests vs the increase in the positives, and the former increased significantly more than the latter IIRC.
kukblue1 05-13-2020, 12:32 PM We might be starting to see numbers from the opening glad to see hospitalizations aren't going up much but I think our cases are going to be steady for a while
d-usa 05-13-2020, 03:35 PM One thing I am trying to get clarification on from my health department contact is how (or if) they are counting rapid testing results. The report talks about lab confirmed positives, but most facilities running the rapid tests as waived testing don’t send additional swabs to the lab for confirmation. So I don’t know if we have positive cases that are not counted.
Mr. Blue Sky 05-13-2020, 05:13 PM Looking for county-by-county COVID-19 information?
Find it here https://looker-dashboards.ok.gov/embed/dashboards/44
Mr. Blue Sky 05-13-2020, 05:21 PM Because of the Seaboard Foods pork processing plant in Texas County (Guymon), we'll probably still see many more cases there. That plant has almost 3,000 workers. Yes, it's still open, but they did announce plant-wide testing. https://seaboardfoods.com/news/Pages/Plant-Wide%20COVID-19%20Testing%20Statement.aspx
Bill Robertson 05-13-2020, 05:55 PM One thing I am trying to get clarification on from my health department contact is how (or if) they are counting rapid testing results. The report talks about lab confirmed positives, but most facilities running the rapid tests as waived testing don’t send additional swabs to the lab for confirmation. So I don’t know if we have positive cases that are not counted.The daily testing results report lists a number of clinics, at least a couple of which I know are doing the rapid test so I would think that’s what they’re submitting for the daily count.
dankrutka 05-13-2020, 06:57 PM I keep reading in this site how Oklahomans are flaunting COVID-19 precautions and going on about their regular life. While this is anecdotal, I'll just say I've been in downtown Tulsa the last couple days and it's a ghost town. Businesses are closed. The streets, sidewalks, and parking lots are empty. While there may be much more activity elsewhere, it's still astounding how much people have shifted their habits.
Bill Robertson 05-13-2020, 07:31 PM I keep reading in this site how Oklahomans are flaunting COVID-19 precautions and going on about their regular life. While this is anecdotal, I'll just say I've been in downtown Tulsa the last couple days and it's a ghost town. Businesses are closed. The streets, sidewalks, and parking lots are empty. While there may be much more activity elsewhere, it's still astounding how much people have shifted their habits.
Habits are changed. At work we normally have 50ish people in the building. Since March 15 we have 10 at most. We don’t wear masks since avoiding other people isn’t difficult. And avoid we do. There’s a “dance” where if there are two people approaching each other in a hall one ducks into an empty office while the other passes by. And all this is being recorded. It would be fun later to snip out all the clips of the “dance” and make a montage put to music. Too bad access to the recordings is monitored and restricted to official use only.
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