Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Ohwiseone]

She did not take “more drastic actions.” She just tried to extend the closure of churches to in-person services a couple more weeks. That whole thing smacked of a political hit job against her by the AG.

This is true, "more drastic action" was a bad comment to make.

Just trying to write what the AP article said and added emphasis.

[mkjeeves]

Holt transcript.
https://www.facebook.com/cityofokc/p...56992325802312

[Pete]

And the argument "we are just testing more" is false. We are also getting a higher percentage of positive results:

For those asking about amount of testing and positive %, I posted this just a few hours ago.

[soonerguru]

This is true, "more drastic action" was a bad comment to make.

Just trying to write what the AP article said and added emphasis.

Gotcha. It seems like we are down to her and Holt as far as Oklahoma large city mayors who give a **** are concerned.

[Ed Shadid]

As a surgeon I have been wearing masks for 25 years and I would like to share a simple, inexpensive technique which I believe makes masks much more effective both for the person wearing them and those they are trying to protect by wearing a mask. A mask protects others by preventing horizontal spread of the droplets out of our mouths. However, look at the way the people around you are wearing their masks. Almost no one has adequate proximation of the mask with the skin of the nose. This allows air to move freely in a vertical fashion around our noses. Air will take the path of least resistance so it will not go through the mask but will enter vertically around the nose or at the bottom of the mask around the chin. To prevent this I like to go in front of a mirror and take transparent tape and apply it in a horizontal fashion across the top of the mask with half of the tape on the mask and half on my nose. This forces the air through the mask. Unfortunately, even in my clinic where my staff and I are essentially guaranteed to come into contact with Covid-19 patients, we cannot obtain supplies of N95 masks for our staff and patients which would filter out Covid-19. This makes it even more important to have an adequate seal around the masks that we do have in order to force the air through the mask. Sometimes I wear more than one mask at a time to increase the filtration.
I would also recommend an hospital grade air purifier for businesses. For our medical clinic, and in the operating room, we use the IQ Air Healthpro series. It is expensive (best one is about $850) but worth it IMO. Covid-19 is very small (one micron) but it must travel on a droplet which is about 3 microns. So if businesses like hair salons and gyms would simply buy an IQ Air machine (or equivalent) they could filter the supermajority of Covid-19 out of the air and probably protect their clients as much or more than masks particularly if the mask is not covering the nose etc...

[Edmond Hausfrau]

The tape is a good tip. It also helps prevent glasses or face shields fogging up. It's really hard with a cloth mask to prevent fogging.

[Pete]

Because we are doing such a poor job of controlling the virus, the European Union is now considering closing its borders to Americans.

You can't blame them... We've now had 2.5 million cases -- more than double any other country -- and of course, our positives are rapidly ramping up.

The EU has done a very good job of flattening the curve and are trying to keep it that way. Nice to be treated like a 3rd world country because we have handled this whole thing so badly.

[Ohwiseone]

This is also from the OKCHD:

[soonerguru]

Because we are doing such a poor job of controlling the virus, the European Union is now considering closing its borders to Americans.

You can't blame them... We've now had 2.5 million cases -- more than double any other country -- and of course, our positives are rapidly ramping up.

The EU has done a very good job of flattening the curve and are trying to keep it that way. Nice to be treated like a 3rd world country because we have handled this whole thing so badly.

EU countries other than Sweden have actually bent the curve impressively.

[soonerguru]

As a surgeon I have been wearing masks for 25 years and I would like to share a simple, inexpensive technique which I believe makes masks much more effective both for the person wearing them and those they are trying to protect by wearing a mask. A mask protects others by preventing horizontal spread of the droplets out of our mouths. However, look at the way the people around you are wearing their masks. Almost no one has adequate proximation of the mask with the skin of the nose. This allows air to move freely in a vertical fashion around our noses. Air will take the path of least resistance so it will not go through the mask but will enter vertically around the nose or at the bottom of the mask around the chin. To prevent this I like to go in front of a mirror and take transparent tape and apply it in a horizontal fashion across the top of the mask with half of the tape on the mask and half on my nose. This forces the air through the mask. Unfortunately, even in my clinic where my staff and I are essentially guaranteed to come into contact with Covid-19 patients, we cannot obtain supplies of N95 masks for our staff and patients which would filter out Covid-19. This makes it even more important to have an adequate seal around the masks that we do have in order to force the air through the mask. Sometimes I wear more than one mask at a time to increase the filtration.
I would also recommend an hospital grade air purifier for businesses. For our medical clinic, and in the operating room, we use the IQ Air Healthpro series. It is expensive (best one is about $850) but worth it IMO. Covid-19 is very small (one micron) but it must travel on a droplet which is about 3 microns. So if businesses like hair salons and gyms would simply buy an IQ Air machine (or equivalent) they could filter the supermajority of Covid-19 out of the air and probably protect their clients as much or more than masks particularly if the mask is not covering the nose etc...

Can you attest to the quality of KN95 masks?

[Jersey Boss]

This is also from the OKCHD:

Where is the part that id's the seven places?

[d-usa]

https://www.koco.com/article/watch-l...demic/32945698

[kukblue1]

Looks like 3 more hospitalizations .

[pw405]

Oklahoma Citians - based upon the what you've seen out and about - what's your estimate for the % of folks wearing masks? My best guess is 10%. I ran a few errands and grabbed some to go food this weekend, the vast majority of people are not wearing masks.

I look around and try to find reasons to be optimistic, but I see:

-The first person I know personally - a very close friend of 15+ years was diagnosed positive yesterday. (Mid 30's)
-Every indicator in OK data that we are accelerating cases dramatically
-Complete lack of action/ignoring problem in state leadership
-Complete lack of action/ignoring problem by corporate executive leadership at local large (1,000+) employer
-Texas cities as a foreboding sign. Especially Houston. Texas Medical Center hospital system said publicly they will exceed their ICU capacity in 4 days (3 days as of writing this). Surge capacity gone in less than 2 weeks.
-Public attitudes about the pandemic have, somehow, managed to become polarized/political/divisive/conspiratorial
-The idea that "hot weather" will slow spread is obviously not the case
-It seems there is no plan at the federal level for how we get out of this

Thankfully, at least in the moment, it seems that deaths are still low. That's about the only optimistic metric I can find in this current situation. Sadly, this doesn't seem likely to hold.

So... am I missing something? Are there any reasons to remain optimistic at this point?

[catcherinthewry]

In The Oklahoman today the state health commissioner said he thinks that 4% of Oklahomans have or have had the virus. That would be about 160,000 people. We've only had 11,000+ diagnosed. That seems high, but even so it is something to take very seriously. Reported cases are increasing at the highest rate yet. Gov. Stitt needs to show some leadership and wear a mask in public and encourage all of to wear one too. He needs to affirm that wearing masks is not a political statement, but rather one of consideration for our fellow citizens.

[TheTravellers]

Oklahoma Citians - based upon the what you've seen out and about - what's your estimate for the % of folks wearing masks? My best guess is 10%. I ran a few errands and grabbed some to go food this weekend, the vast majority of people are not wearing masks.

I look around and try to find reasons to be optimistic, but I see:

-The first person I know personally - a very close friend of 15+ years was diagnosed positive yesterday. (Mid 30's)
-Every indicator in OK data that we are accelerating cases dramatically
-Complete lack of action/ignoring problem in state leadership
-Complete lack of action/ignoring problem by corporate executive leadership at local large (1,000+) employer
-Texas cities as a foreboding sign. Especially Houston. Texas Medical Center hospital system said publicly they will exceed their ICU capacity in 4 days (3 days as of writing this). Surge capacity gone in less than 2 weeks.
-Public attitudes about the pandemic have, somehow, managed to become polarized/political/divisive/conspiratorial
-The idea that "hot weather" will slow spread is obviously not the case
-It seems there is no plan at the federal level for how we get out of this

Thankfully, at least in the moment, it seems that deaths are still low. That's about the only optimistic metric I can find in this current situation. Sadly, this doesn't seem likely to hold.

So... am I missing something? Are there any reasons to remain optimistic at this point?

Nope. I haven't been optimistic about this in OK, pretty much all my predictions for spikes caused by re-opening, Memorial Day, etc., have all come true, no reason to believe it won't continue that way unless a huge amount of citizens start getting their sh*t together and doing the right thing and I'm not optimistic about that happening in OK, at all, ever.

[soonerguru]

Leadership matters. Elections matter. Vote accordingly.

[jccouger]

482

[chuck5815]

Definitely an interesting table. Even after accounting for CV deaths, Oklahoma had less total deaths than expected to occur from 2/1 to 6/20.


Table 2. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by jurisdiction of occurrence, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 6/20/2020.*

Updated June 24, 2020

Jurisdiction of Occurrence	All Deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1	Deaths from All Causes	Percent of Expected Deaths2	Deaths involving Pneumonia, with or without COVID-19, excluding Influenza deaths (J12.0–J18.9)3	Deaths involving COVID-19 and Pneumonia, excluding Influenza (J12.0–J18.9 and U07.1)3	All Deaths involving Influenza, with or without COVID-19 or Pneumonia (J09–J11)4	Deaths involving Pneumonia, Influenza, or COVID-19 (U07.1 or J09–J18.9)5
New York City	19,008	46,777	213	9,771	7,360	945	21,547
New Jersey	12,678	45,122	147	8,545	6,226	117	15,100
New York7	10,274	52,072	128	8,545	5,028	206	13,980
Massachusetts	7,106	31,112	127	4,461	2,572	161	9,148
District of Columbia	514	2,943	119	671	510	-	683
Maryland	3,052	23,843	117	2,588	1,147	125	4,602
Illinois	5,642	50,031	116	5,795	2,863	176	8,747
Michigan	5,078	44,322	112	4,909	2,522	237	7,698
Colorado	1,457	17,704	110	1,685	751	95	2,481
Arizona	1,125	26,690	108	2,123	586	112	2,774
Louisiana	2,509	19,892	107	1,981	1,163	71	3,393
Minnesota	1,239	19,006	106	1,483	359	121	2,483
Mississippi	825	13,655	106	1,362	388	51	1,850
New Hampshire	311	5,302	106	385	92	30	633
Rhode Island	760	4,525	106	496	295	25	986
United States6	107,997	1,215,516	105	117,814	46,726	6,444	184,593
Virginia	1,638	29,292	105	1,838	552	111	3,033
South Carolina	550	20,619	103	1,309	216	98	1,740
Vermont	53	2,421	103	143	12	16	200
Wisconsin	674	22,040	103	1,181	113	150	1,890
California	4,709	112,712	102	10,377	2,630	575	13,030
Florida	2,761	87,835	102	6,745	1,413	306	8,391
Utah	143	7,866	102	434	52	40	565
Georgia	1,921	34,308	100	2,613	868	109	3,774
Indiana	2,228	27,541	100	2,754	932	130	4,176
Maine	106	5,924	100	435	25	31	547
Nevada	430	10,596	100	962	317	39	1,114
Texas	1,951	81,958	100	6,239	859	339	7,667
Wyoming	16	1,818	100	116	-	-	135
Idaho	87	5,754	99	277	25	25	364
Iowa	628	12,180	99	894	175	84	1,431
Alabama	833	21,123	98	1,425	243	94	2,106
Arkansas	180	12,767	98	866	68	75	1,053
Delaware	441	3,649	98	325	165	16	617
Pennsylvania	6,437	54,354	98	4,976	2,375	190	9,225
Washington	1,070	22,848	98	1,846	569	110	2,452
Kansas	228	10,459	97	703	97	89	923
Missouri	803	25,256	96	1,616	274	175	2,320
Tennessee	409	29,548	96	2,167	172	126	2,530
New Mexico	361	7,254	95	559	148	29	801
Oregon	189	14,159	95	716	71	64	897
Hawaii	16	4,471	94	287	-	20	317
Nebraska	194	6,514	94	503	67	28	658
Ohio	2,103	47,318	93	3,200	887	253	4,668
Puerto Rico	136	10,461	93	1,374	72	61	1,498
Kentucky	485	18,158	92	1,684	245	96	2,019
Montana	17	3,981	92	208	-	34	256
Oklahoma	350	14,929	92	1,337	133	106	1,655
South Dakota	78	3,008	90	245	33	26	316
Alaska	-	1,533	89	70	-	-	81
Connecticut	3,452	10,768	83	1,253	791	66	3,978
North Dakota	65	2,286	79	200	22	19	262
West Virginia	91	7,157	77	532	29	58	652
North Carolina	713	28,116	72	1,979	267	222	2,645

[AP]

482

That is the new record high.

[Pete]

New today:

482 cases
31 hospitalizations
1 death

[Pete]

I am genuinely worried about Oklahoma and the other states like Texas and Florida that are seeing these spikes.

This is the middle of the time of year where everyone is outside and of course most are still being pretty cautious.

If this momentum continues into the fall and winter, we could be headed for a full-on catastrophe.

[oklip955]

I am watching the numbers daily for Edmond and Okc, Definitely going up Today 99active cases in Edmond. 6-13 39 active. Almost triple in 11 days.

[kukblue1]

New today:

482 cases
31 hospitalizations
1 death

Well I was all 4 just wearing a mask but now we need to shut things back down. what are we waiting on over 500 positives a day. Hell let's see if we can hit 1000 positives in a day? SHUT IT DOWN

[Pete]

From https://twitter.com/KassieMcClung: