Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[AP]

The numbers for today continue the downward trend. I hope that is the new reality.

[Ohwiseone]

Higher Recoveries than positives again today.

Hopeful this continues.

[Brad72]

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.

[Pete]

Updated for Wednesday:

[soonerguru]

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]

Updated for Wednesday:

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Looking for county-by-county COVID-19 information?
Find it here https://looker-dashboards.ok.gov/embed/dashboards/44

[Mr. Blue Sky]

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...Statement.aspx

[Bill Robertson]

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]

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]

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.

[PhiAlpha]

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.

Yeah I would say that there are definitely more people out than there were, but still not anything near what I would've considered "normal" a few months ago.

[OKC Guy]

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.

Lots working from home so not out

[Bill Robertson]

Lots working from home so not out

Yeah. At 4:30ish I44 North still isn’t nearly as bad as before the stay at home.

[Brad72]

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.

Downtown OKC is much the same. I have to go downtown a couple of times a week usually and the business center is dead. That said, other parts of town are packed. NW OKC and Edmond in particular. Had to run some errands along Memorial the other days and you'd never know anything out of the normal was going on.

[brian72]

Get out and start working and living again. This virus will never have a vaccine, and it’s not the plague.

[aegisdodd]

Get out and start working and living again. This virus will never have a vaccine, and it’s not the plague.

Welp, that settles it!

"Honey! brian72 says we should get out and start working and living again!"

Thanks, brian72!

[Jersey Boss]

Get out and start working and living again. This virus will never have a vaccine, and it’s not the plague.

Anybody who seriously opines that Gates is behind a secret program to put chips into the populace can not be taken seriously with any Covid messaging.

[PoliSciGuy]

Anybody who seriously opines that Gates is behind a secret program to put chips into the populace can not be taken seriously with any Covid messaging.

Or taken seriously about anything really

[Pete]

Updated for Thursday:

[PoliSciGuy]

Good context from good Twitter follow Scott Gottleib re: our R-naught and overall positivity rate. OK is actually looking pretty good on both measures:

https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/...65711012397057

Also, while three straight days of triple digit new cases might be alarming, our positivity rate was under 4%, which is overall a good trend