Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[jn1780]

You wouldn't think the hospitalization #s would be affected by the weekend, but if you look at this week (21,22,23) and the same days for the last two weeks (14,15,16) and (7, 8, 9) you see the same pattern, so I'm guessing the weekends are causing that pattern.

Maybe they are already in the hospital, but there is a lag in confirming they have Covid because of less test processing staff on the weekends? There is a section on the daily report that says "in hospital-potential covid" or something like that.

[jerrywall]

Maybe they are already in the hospital, but there is a lag in confirming they have Covid because of less test processing staff on the weekends? There is a section on the daily report that says "in hospital-potential covid" or something like that.

Ah, good point.

[Teo9969]

Preliminary results from the hardest hit US city with ideal conditions for the spread of the virus. 21% of NYC projection to have received it. More testing results will fine tune this number and add to the confidence level.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/n...rk-update.html

Either way, it's not 10% and it's not 30%. 20% seems to be pretty far up the curve.

[OKC Guy]

Pretty neat site you can check by zip code for numbers

https://looker-dashboards.ok.gov/embed/dashboards/46

[HangryHippo]

Pretty neat site you can check by zip code for numbers

https://looker-dashboards.ok.gov/embed/dashboards/46

Very neat. Thanks for sharing.

[jerrywall]

Edmond City Council is meeting this afternoon to discuss any adjustments to their emergency declaration.

MEETING NOTICE: Edmond City Council Sets Emergency Meeting for Thursday, April 23
The Edmond City Council will hold an Emergency City Council meeting via Video Conference at 4:00 pm on Thursday, April 23 to discuss the current Declaration of Emergency due to COVID-19.
AGENDA: http://agenda.edmondok.com:8085/agenda_publish.cfm
WATCH LIVE: http://edmondok.com/93/Watch-Live or http://edmondok.swagit.com/live/

[Ohwiseone]

I doubt this will play very much into the overall decision that OKC, and Tulsa decide to do next week.

But according to KOCO: Midwest City, Yukon, Moore, Del City, and Mustang have all made adjustments and are allowing Personal Care to open tomorrow, and Probably will allow everything else to open friday.

[jerrywall]

Edmond is not going to open up tomorrow. They'll discuss timing more on Monday's regular council meeting.

[kukblue1]

Oklahoma State Medical Association
Yesterday at 5:47 PM ·
Oklahoma State Medical Association President George Monks, M.D. said, “We are concerned Gov. Stitt’s plan to reopen the state is hasty at best. Even without widespread testing, Oklahoma has seen an ongoing growth in the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the past week alone. According to the Trump administration, states should not begin this process until they’ve seen a two-week downward trajectory in COVID-19 cases, and we are far from this point.

"Oklahoma’s physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers continue to care for those who are ill from this savage disease. To increase the danger of widespread infection by opening prematurely not only discounts their efforts, but also the sacrifices made by their loved ones.

The measures the state previously put in place have made a difference in the fight against coronavirus, and we applaud Oklahoma City Mayor David Holt, Tulsa Mayor GT Bynum and Norman Mayor Breea Clark for their continued commitment to protecting public safety. We urge Gov. Stitt to follow suit."

WAKE UP PEOPLE OUR NUMBERS ARE NOT REALLY GOING DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pete]

Getting ready to pass 50,000 deaths in the United States (may happen before the end of today) and we're still losing well over 2,000 people a day.

We have twice as many deaths as any other country and continue to add to that total at a rate 4x anyone else.

And this is April. By the end of the year these numbers are likely to be much higher. It's just a horrible situation.

[kukblue1]

Getting ready to pass 50,000 deaths in the United States (may happen before the end of today) and we're still losing well over 2,000 people a day.

We have twice as many deaths as any other country and continue to add to that total at a rate 4x anyone else.

And this is April. By the end of the year these numbers are likely to be much higher. It's just a horrible situation.

Yes but you have to look at the whole picture we have way more people than other countries. Our death rate isn't a bad as Italy or Spain.

[Pete]

Yes but you have to look at the whole picture we have way more people than other countries. Our death rate isn't a bad as Italy or Spain.

This started later for us and there are dozens of other countries with lower fatality rates.

Just because we aren't dead last (yet) doesn't mean these numbers aren't huge even given our population.

[kukblue1]

This started later for us and there are dozens of other countries with lower fatality rates.

Just because we aren't dead last (yet) doesn't mean these numbers aren't huge even given our population.

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data

[kukblue1]

we had on the 18th 45% of ICU beds available now we have 35% and we going to open things back up? What am i missing here? 888 active cases on the 17th and now 954. Not a big increase but still an increase is it not?

[jccouger]

Yes but you have to look at the whole picture we have way more people than other countries. Our death rate isn't a bad as Italy or Spain.

Who cares what the death rate is or which country is worse than others?

50,000 people have died in America. Does that not matter?

[soonerguru]

Who cares what the death rate is or which country is worse than others?

50,000 people have died in America. Does that not matter?

This (for some of us; for others, it's: "they were old, they had health issues, they lived in rest homes,").

[soonerguru]

Who cares what the death rate is or which country is worse than others?

50,000 people have died in America. Does that not matter?

This (for some of us; for others, it's: "they were old, they had health issues, they lived in rest homes,").

[Snowman]

we had on the 18th 45% of ICU beds available now we have 35% and we going to open things back up? What am i missing here? 888 active cases on the 17th and now 954. Not a big increase but still an increase is it not?

From the numbers OKDOH puts out, while the rate of growth has been decelerating, the number of active cases is still growth faster than when this started being taken seriously here in mid-march.

[Pete]

Numbers just updated for Friday:

[jccouger]

Is this our new normal for the next year+?

[sooner88]

Here is the 3-day moving average for positive cases, hospitalization and deaths.

[David]

I'm holding out hope that the Gilead antiviral testing has more good results, but even if it does a brand new drug like that is going to be expensive to roll out for mass clinical and hospital use. Might be something for the feds to subsidize if it does work out.

[Jersey Boss]

Here is the 3-day moving average for positive cases, hospitalization and deaths.

Is that a chart for the state, okc msa, ok county?

[sooner88]

Is that a chart for the state, okc msa, ok county?

It's a moving average from the data Pete posted, so for the state.

[OKC_Chipper]

https://content.govdelivery.com/atta...%20%281%29.pdf
New weekly report from the department of Health has some interesting numbers in it.