Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Plutonic Panda]

I will say regarding the flu, I have had it a few times in my life and twice it sucked but wasn’t horrible. There was this one time I had it I literally thought I was going to die. I couldn’t even move and I honestly started believing that was it. Before that I had never realized how serious the flu could be and that was in my late teens.

[Pete]

In the U.S., there are now over 2,000 deaths per day due to Covid-19 and it's still going up.

That's more than 25,000 deaths in this country and almost all of those have come in one month.

The idea this isn't serious or that we've somehow overreacted is absurd. Just hope we start to get past this soon.

[brian72]

In the U.S., there are now over 2,000 deaths per day due to Covid-19 and it's still going up.

That's more than 25,000 deaths in this country and almost all of those have come in one month.

The idea this isn't serious or that we've somehow overreacted is absurd. Just hope we start to get past this soon.

They said it would go up, if I'm not mistaking. Just as the testing got ramped up in the last 2-3 Weeks.

[dankrutka]

There's a real lack of recognition from some people about how profound the response has been to this pandemic and that's why projections are down... many experts didn't think this type of change could happen this quickly. As Pete pointed out, 25,000 people have officially died in one month (probably more unofficially) despite the fact Americans have changed their lives in unprecedented ways. If a church is open it makes the news now. I keep seeing references to a family in a grocery store or "traffic" on the roads as evidence, but every person I know in OKC has completely changed their routines and work to be almost exclusively at home and hygiene in and out of their house. While there's no question that some projections and models have been off, that does not mean the recommendations of epidemiologists and social scientists were off. It actually seems like they've nailed it. Of course, there is still much we don't know. It seems the biggest problem we face now is a federal failure to prepare to open things up by increasing access to tests, masks, other medical equipment, and associated infrastructure. We need those things to be ready once this first wave slows down so we can open some things up and a second wave doesn't ensue with worse effects.

[soonerguru]

There's a real lack of recognition from some people about how profound the response has been to this pandemic and that's why projections are down... many experts didn't think this type of change could happen this quickly. As Pete pointed out, 25,000 people have officially died in one month (probably more unofficially) despite the fact Americans have changed their lives in unprecedented ways. If a church is open it makes the news now. I keep seeing references to a family in a grocery store or "traffic" on the roads as evidence, but every person I know in OKC has completely changed their routines and work to be almost exclusively at home and hygiene in and out of their house. While there's no question that some projections and models have been off, that does not mean the recommendations of epidemiologists and social scientists were off. It actually seems like they've nailed it. Of course, there is still much we don't know. It seems the biggest problem we face now is a federal failure to prepare to open things up by increasing access to tests, masks, other medical equipment, and associated infrastructure. We need those things to be ready once this first wave slows down so we can open some things up and a second wave doesn't ensue with worse effects.

Oklahoma is doing relatively well because of our location, our overall lack of density, and the quick and decisive leadership of our mayors in OKC, Norman, Tulsa, which led other mayors to follow suit. The governor deserves credit for closing the churches, as well. But Dan raises a great point. The USA is a giant, diverse country, and it is almost unfathomable how much people have made these major life changes to prevent an utter catastrophe from occurring.

I have no idea how many will ultimately die in the Oklahoma or the US, but as Gov. Cuomo said today, the people deserve the credit for doing what they have to follow these social distancing guidelines. The people deserve a pat on the back for making that happen.

This is an awful virus. I have a work colleague who is young and healthy and health conscious and she has had this for four weeks now. She said it is far worse than any flu or illness she has ever had.

[Pete]

Updated for Wed:

[AP]

So much for the decrease in death rate.

[jerrywall]

A question I have is if those deaths are deaths that occurred on that day, or that's when they were logged as Coronavirus related. Since they've talked about there being a delay in identifying deaths out of hospitals as Coronavirus related, I'm guessing it's the latter, which makes it harder to look at as a daily ongoing trend tracker. It could also explain why we see weekend variances on these numbers.

[OkieHornet]

A question I have is if those deaths are deaths that occurred on that day, or that's when they were logged as Coronavirus related. Since they've talked about there being a delay in identifying deaths out of hospitals as Coronavirus related, I'm guessing it's the latter, which makes it harder to look at as a daily ongoing trend tracker. It could also explain why we see weekend variances on these numbers.

This tweet provides a little insight on that:

Chris Casteel
@casteelpolitics
A first: Today's update of COVID-19 related deaths in OK includes 11 from the period of April 3-13. The other 4 were in the past 24 hours. Unclear if other deaths reported in the past several weeks occurred outside the 24-hour period between reports, but that would make sense.
11:30 AM · Apr 15, 2020

[soonerguru]

From the OSDH website: 5 of the deaths in Oklahoma are people from the 18-35 age category.

[jerrywall]

This tweet provides a little insight on that:

Chris Casteel
@casteelpolitics
A first: Today's update of COVID-19 related deaths in OK includes 11 from the period of April 3-13. The other 4 were in the past 24 hours. Unclear if other deaths reported in the past several weeks occurred outside the 24-hour period between reports, but that would make sense.
11:30 AM · Apr 15, 2020

That makes a lot of sense and I'm happy they're now providing that extra detail.

[PhiAlpha]

This tweet provides a little insight on that:

Chris Casteel
@casteelpolitics
A first: Today's update of COVID-19 related deaths in OK includes 11 from the period of April 3-13. The other 4 were in the past 24 hours. Unclear if other deaths reported in the past several weeks occurred outside the 24-hour period between reports, but that would make sense.
11:30 AM · Apr 15, 2020

That's a relief.

[mugofbeer]

Updated for Wed:

Hey Pete, I listened to Gov. Cuomo today and he was talking about how they are going to a 3-day rolling average on stats. Any possibility you could work this into your spreadsheet? It is a more telling number of how we are doing on the curve.

[OKC Talker]

Good coverage from Free Press OKC:
https://freepressokc.com/covid-19-st...well-as-urban/

[mkjeeves]

Trend with 3 day average



Made here: https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

[chuck5815]

Trend with 3 day average



Made here: https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en

Damn, the death rates on that site really put this **** into perspective.

This Virus is a Bad Bitch.

[Bill Robertson]

Good coverage from Free Press OKC:
https://freepressokc.com/covid-19-st...well-as-urban/

This came from that article and explains the jump in deaths today.

“Now, they have been working with tribes and other entities to collect data on deaths from the disease adding 11 deaths to their records that occurred from April 3 through April 13.

Four more deaths were added to the count that occurred in the last 24 hours totalling 15 added to the count in the Wednesday report.”

[kukblue1]

Wow was there a lot of traffic on the roads today. Also every fast food place I drove by at 2:30 in the afternoon was busy. This $1,200 might do more harm then good if people are just going to go out and spend it and start to relax on the staying at home.

[mugofbeer]

Though no one has gotten it yet, I kinda think that's what the money was for, to keep the economy going? Besides, going through a drive-through isn't exactly dangerous (except at Chik-fil-a). ��

[AP]

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[FighttheGoodFight]

Though no one has gotten it yet, I kinda think that's what the money was for, to keep the economy going? Besides, going through a drive-through isn't exactly dangerous (except at Chik-fil-a). ��

We got ours yesterday.

[mugofbeer]

We got ours yesterday.

I am Corrected. I heard today was the day.

[TheTravellers]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/n...rew-cuomo.html

Is there any *scientific* evidence that homemade or surgical masks stop the spread of coronavirus? Last I heard, they *may* stop 3% of particles/droplets (and pretty much none of the actual virus itself since it's so much smaller than the holes in, much less around the masks).

[Snowman]

While I realize there are issues in them getting confirmation people have recovered, but at this point a noticeable percentage of the confirmed cases should have recovered. So it seems odd there is not any sort of at least estimate of how many confirmed cases are still active, verses just continuing to announce total positive cases.

[Bill Robertson]

While I realize there are issues in them getting confirmation people have recovered, but at this point a noticeable percentage of the confirmed cases should have recovered. So it seems odd there is not any sort of at least estimate of how many confirmed cases are still active, verses just continuing to announce total positive cases.

I complained about that for weeks. But the past couple of weeks many more reports, including the weekday updates from the Oklahoma State DOH list recovered cases.