Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[OKC Talker]

Hasn’t everyone been saying these results are from two weeks ago? If so wouldn’t the hospitalizations be occurring now?

I don't know who everyone is, but that's not what it shows in the data of cases by date of onset:
https://looker-dashboards.ok.gov/emb...election=OCCHD

[TheTravellers]

Trips to Homeland are getting more disheartening - as has been said, there are fewer masks and social distancing (did have one guy ask if he could get a bottle of water where we were standing instead of just pushing in and getting it, but he wasn't wearing a mask). Two people stood talking about a foot from each other, saying they were glad they saw each other, it had been months, etc., just yammering like everything's normal. Maybe they should just open everything back up and then let cases skyrocket again, then maybe the idiots will start believing in doing the right thing, but that would infect and kill innocent people doing the right thing too, so that's actually not a great idea...

Are other countries this stupid about wearing masks and social distancing (I haven't been keeping up with the rates that other countries' infections are going up or down)?

[Edmond Hausfrau]

Are other countries this stupid about wearing masks and social distancing (I haven't been keeping up with the rates that other countries' infections are going up or down)?

Most other countries don't have "rugged individualism" as their core branding the way America does.

[FighttheGoodFight]

We really need to keep Long Term care and Nursing homes closed. 189 of 359 deaths (last weekly report but could have been more this week) are in long term care places.

[Edmond_Outsider]

People are making health decisions based on political affiliation. My observations are that non-Caucasians are 85-95% observing social distancing and mask wearing. The inverse is true for Caucasians. That seems weird. Ethnicity isn’t the factor, political party is.

http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/re...distancing.pdfhttp://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/re...distancing.pdf

“We then present new survey evidence of significant gaps at the individual level between Republi- cans and Democrats in self-reported social distancing, beliefs about personal COVID risk, and beliefs about the future severity of the pandemic.”

[Bill Robertson]

We really need to keep Long Term care and Nursing homes closed. 189 of 359 deaths (last weekly report but could have been more this week) are in long term care places.

As for me I won’t be going to see mom until I feel comfortable. My two sisters are able to and have really isolated themselves so they should be safe. I’ve worked and shopped this whole time so I would be concerned that I might be asymptomatic and take it into the facility. I couldn’t live with that.

[OKC Talker]

I don't know who everyone is, but that's not what it shows in the data of cases by date of onset:
https://looker-dashboards.ok.gov/emb...election=OCCHD

I think I understand what people may be confused about. Don't mix up the infection on Memorial Day with the onset of symptoms 1-2 weeks later which prompts the positive test results and following hospitalizations in week 3-5. Here's a marked up image shamelessly stolen from the internet:

[OKC_Chipper]

I think I understand what people may be confused about. Don't mix up the infection on Memorial Day with the onset of symptoms 1-2 weeks later which prompts the positive test results and following hospitalizations in week 3-5. Here's a marked up image shamelessly stolen from the internet:

I’m not confused. D-usa said earlier in this thread that he had knowledge that results were delayed in reporting up to 12 days.

[TheTravellers]

People are making health decisions based on political affiliation. My observations are that non-Caucasians are 85-95% observing social distancing and mask wearing. The inverse is true for Caucasians. That seems weird. Ethnicity isn’t the factor, political party is.

http://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/re...distancing.pdfhttp://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/re...distancing.pdf

“We then present new survey evidence of significant gaps at the individual level between Republi- cans and Democrats in self-reported social distancing, beliefs about personal COVID risk, and beliefs about the future severity of the pandemic.”

Yep, and it's sad, this country is in pathetic shape because of science illiteracy/denial and fact denial.

[kukblue1]

I think I understand what people may be confused about. Don't mix up the infection on Memorial Day with the onset of symptoms 1-2 weeks later which prompts the positive test results and following hospitalizations in week 3-5. Here's a marked up image shamelessly stolen from the internet:

So what your saying is Hospitalization start around day 8? Fits perfect with the large crowds at protest. The protesters might no be sick but who isn't to say they gave it to someone else?

[Bill Robertson]

This is from today’s Epidemiology Report. “ It is critical for Oklahomans to seek out testing, even for individuals without symptoms.“. So if I have no symptoms how often should I seek out testing? If every Oklahoma resident went for testing weekly it would be a major disaster.

[kukblue1]

This is from today’s Epidemiology Report. “ It is critical for Oklahomans to seek out testing, even for individuals without symptoms.“. So if I have no symptoms how often should I seek out testing? If every Oklahoma resident went for testing weekly it would be a major disaster.

Right. Let's backlog the test and make it even longer to get the results. Hopefully one day we can get a test that we can get results in a day.

[soonerguru]

Why? A lot of the positive tests we see are from weeks ago. Most are recovered by now.

I am not sure if you are intentionally ignoring the information but the health department marks people "recovered" after 14 days without hospitalization. The two people I have spoken to who contracted the virus, both in their 40s, had if for five and six weeks, respectively.

The six week person was not hospitalized. The other was. The six week person still has intense lingering symptoms.

Also, if people tested positive two weeks ago the likelihood that they are "recovered" if they had serious symptoms is small.

[jdizzle]

I am not sure if you are intentionally ignoring the information but the health department marks people "recovered" after 14 days without hospitalization. The two people I have spoken to who contracted the virus, both in their 40s, had if for five and six weeks, respectively.

The six week person was not hospitalized. The other was. The six week person still has intense lingering symptoms.

Also, if people tested positive two weeks ago the likelihood that they are "recovered" if they had serious symptoms is small.

But, if the virus has a life of 14 days, they aren't contagious at that point, whether they are sick or not. You can still be sick, but not contagious. You are right. they may not be fully recovered.

[soonerguru]

Ok I see what you are saying but in the case of my colleague, she was still getting positive tests a month after initially testing positive. That means she was still contagious.

This 14-day rule is arbitrary BS created by government officials.

[Bunty]

We really need to keep Long Term care and Nursing homes closed. 189 of 359 deaths (last weekly report but could have been more this week) are in long term care places.

Right. That is where the most vulnerable people are to death. Do a better job keeping the virus out of nursing homes and likely the deaths could go down, or flatten. Successful drug treatment can help keep deaths down.

[Pete]

225 new cases reported today.

[jccouger]

I wonder how bad it will have to get before people take minor precautions such as masks and appropriate distance? We could have a thriving healthy economy if we did this.

Or maybe just showing everybody how tough & free we are will get us Through it.

[mkjeeves]

I wonder what the hospitals look like and what new projections might show for them if this continues?

[kukblue1]

I wonder how bad it will have to get before people take minor precautions such as masks and appropriate distance? We could have a thriving healthy economy if we did this.

Or maybe just showing everybody how tough & free we are will get us Through it.

Went to meat market today I won't say which one but no mask. Zero zip no one. Probably about 10 people in there. Of course I had mine on I wore it a total of 8 minutes. How hard is it people. Also chick-fil-a yesterday. Person bringing me my food on no mask. People just won't wear one and not sure why. I could understand if it would be an all day thing and feel bad for the workers that have to wear them all day but you as a shopper only have to wear one 15 minutes maybe 30 at most. Go in to the store with a plan get what you need and get out. NOT THAT HARD.

[jccouger]

Went to meat market today I won't say which one but no mask. Zero zip no one. Probably about 10 people in there. Of course I had mine on I wore it a total of 8 minutes. How hard is it people. Also chick-fil-a yesterday. Person bringing me my food on no mask. People just won't wear one and not sure why. I could understand if it would be an all day thing and feel bad for the workers that have to wear them all day but you as a shopper only have to wear one 15 minutes maybe 30 at most. Go in to the store with a plan get what you need and get out. NOT THAT HARD.

Its not that its hard to wear a mask, its that they have such fragile egos that they can’t be caught dead looking like they support a differing political party.

Though I do understand the trouble for workers. Wearing it for 9 hours would be a physical struggle.

[dankrutka]

If I patron a business, I sometimes call ahead and say, "Hi, I am planning on wearing a mask in your store to keep your employees safe. Will they wear one to keep me safe?" I always frame it that way to remind people you're wearing it for others, it's not about you.

[d-usa]

Our testing went from getting results in 8 days, to getting results in 24 hours this past week. This is from a high volume lab that now has capacity to do testing in Oklahoma rather than sending their tests out. Hoping this will speed up reporting across the state for clinics utilizing that particular company.

My facility is also going to impact the testing numbers for the city for a while. We are doing some frequent massive testing, so we are going to drive the testing rate up and the numbers for results are going to be a bit messed up for a while for the county. If there is reporting by zip code it would help clear things up.

[OkiePoke]

Don't blame protests for the reason for increased cases. Yeah, it probably is a factor, but the majority of the population locally isn't taking precautions to distance.

[kukblue1]

Our testing went from getting results in 8 days, to getting results in 24 hours this past week. This is from a high volume lab that now has capacity to do testing in Oklahoma rather than sending their tests out. Hoping this will speed up reporting across the state for clinics utilizing that particular company.

My facility is also going to impact the testing numbers for the city for a while. We are doing some frequent massive testing, so we are going to drive the testing rate up and the numbers for results are going to be a bit messed up for a while for the county. If there is reporting by zip code it would help clear things up.

So we are now getting results back in 24 hours? How many test can we process now in a day?