Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Buffalo Bill]

Reshuffling the cabinet secretaries of health and mental health, and of Science. Sorry to see Dr. Kayse Shrum exit. She was an asset that was not deployed often enough. The OSU Health Sciences Center is lucky to have her.

Hard to imagine a guy who 10 months ago with no experience in health becoming Secretary of Health. I guess the learning curve for an accountant was pretty steep. I wonder what conversations went on between the Guv and Shrum and Loughridge.

[kukblue1]

You needed an eye exam during a pandemic that badly?

I almost cancelled it but you also can't let your heath go to **** also. I had an echo-gram last week . It's kind of a double edge sword though. Do you go do you not go? This isn't going away anytime soon we are going to have to learn to life with it. Wearing mask and being aware of who your coming into contact with is going to be the new normal for a while unfortunately

[LocoAko]

There's been a real cascade of local restaurants/bars closing now or going back to curbside only, either due to a positive test or as a precaution.

I've seen...
Picasso Cafe
Oso
Blue Seven
Chick N Beer
Tamashii Ramen (positive case)
Social Capital (positive case)
Pump Bar (positive case)
Bunker Club
Sunnyside Diner (Edmond) (positive case)
R&J Supper Lounge
Bellini's (positive case)
McClintock Saloon and Chophouse
Eagle One Pizza (Moore)
HiLo Club (positive case)
Lost Highway Bar (positive case)
Revolucion
ZamZam Mediterranean Grill
The Indigo Attic
Hamilton Supperette
Red Cup Cafe
En Croute
The Press (positive case)
Flashback RetroPub
RedPrime Steakhouse (positive case)

[PoliSciGuy]

Overall hospitalizations in OK have fallen since Friday, down to 315 from 329

https://twitter.com/pmonies/status/1277733078136500231

[oilmud]

I almost cancelled it but you also can't let your heath go to **** also. I had an echo-gram last week . It's kind of a double edge sword though. Do you go do you not go? This isn't going away anytime soon we are going to have to learn to life with it. Wearing mask and being aware of who your coming into contact with is going to be the new normal for a while unfortunately

Seems terribly irresponsible reason to be out given the current increase in positive cases.

[kukblue1]

I know right. That was the 6th building other than work i have been in since mid May. Napa, Meat Market, Dollar General, Home Depot, Echo, Eye Doctor. God that's pretty sad. I need to go somewhere and do something. UGH

[kukblue1]

15 deaths 49 or younger. If I take that and dived it by total of confirmed cases in that age group i come up with a death rate of 0.1. Is it really that low. Also that is just on confirmed cases i'm sure more have had it and never tested. Let's protect our older population. Hopefully they younger crowd getting it right now understands that.

[SSEiYah]

Facemask order for Kansas starting Friday. Use of mask in all public settings.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/poli...243879982.html

Glad to see this. It aint a "liberal thing" to wear a mask. Wearing a mask gets our small businesses back in business rather than making this crap last way longer than it needs to. We need to get the numbers down and masks are likely going to be the only way to do it.

[Ed Shadid]

Goldman Sachs says a national mask mandate could slash infections and save economy from a 5% hit

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/gold...rcent-hit.html

[Bill Robertson]

Last nights posted EOR shows only about 500 pending rest results. If this isn’t another typo then they are staying caught up much better.

[SoonerDave]

Last nights posted EOR shows only about 500 pending rest results. If this isn’t another typo then they are staying caught up much better.

I looked at that EOR as well (for 6/29) and it showed a number for total completed tests of 343,623. This is a delta of 15,941 tests, and a delta in positives over the same period of 530 (13,172-12,642).

That yields an "over the weekend" positive test rate of 530/(343,623-327682) or 3.3%.

[Bill Robertson]

I know this is unscientific and means nothing. But. The NBA has had 16 positive tests of the 302 they had test results for on the 26th. That’s 5%. Then we know of a handful of players from the 22 teams that have had it already. Then we have few college football teams that have had double digit positives out of about 100 players each. Clemson has 37 positives. Then ask how many players had it already that didn’t know at all. Could the number of past and current infections, at least in areas, be much higher than the experts think?

[HangryHippo]

I know this is unscientific and means nothing. But. The NBA has had 16 positive tests of the 302 they had test results for on the 26th. That’s 5%. Then we know of a handful of players from the 22 teams that have had it already. Then we have few college football teams that have had double digit positives out of about 100 players each. Clemson has 37 positives. Then ask how many players had it already that didn’t know at all. Could the number of past and current infections, at least in areas, be much higher than the experts think?

The experts already think the numbers are much higher.

[Libbymin]

I know this is unscientific and means nothing. But. The NBA has had 16 positive tests of the 302 they had test results for on the 26th. That’s 5%. Then we know of a handful of players from the 22 teams that have had it already. Then we have few college football teams that have had double digit positives out of about 100 players each. Clemson has 37 positives. Then ask how many players had it already that didn’t know at all. Could the number of past and current infections, at least in areas, be much higher than the experts think?

There was an article I saw recently that basically said that they think a lot more people have actually had it than we realize, whether that be people who never got tested who showed symptoms or people who were asymptomatic and didn't get tested. I don't remember what that estimated number was but it was pretty high.

I have a relative in Texas who was supposed to have a skin thing removed and they tested him as a precaution and he ended up being positive even though he didn't show any symptoms at all. He's still doing fine a few days later and hopefully it stays that way (knock on wood).

[PoliSciGuy]

The CDC thinks we are currently undermeasuring the actual case numbers by a factor of 10, which is bad for containing the thing but good for understanding the low hospitalization rate and mortality rate

[jdizzle]

The CDC thinks we are currently undermeasuring the actual case numbers by a factor of 10, which is bad for containing the thing but good for understanding the low hospitalization rate and mortality rate

Why bad? If the death and hospitalization #s are "accurate" then if it a factor of 10, what % of the US already has had it, or has it currently?

[Ed Shadid]

Why bad? If the death and hospitalization #s are "accurate" then if it a factor of 10, what % of the US already has had it, or has it currently?

Roughly 2.7 million x 10= 27 million
Population of U.S. roughly 330 million
27/330=8.2% of U.S. population not evenly geographically distributed
Long way to go to herd immunity (assuming antibodies persist in those previously infected)

[SoonerDave]

The good thing about the 10x notion is that IFR (infection fatality rate) is significantly lower than had been suspected initially. If literally millions have had this with no or *minimal* symptoms, the focus should obviously be on those who are at worst risk. It's all a matter of gaining knowledge and data.

[Timshel]

585 today. Hopefully the big increase can be explained by some mitigating factors. Will be interested to see how the rest of the week goes. Had been expecting a big number at some point but the last couple days were starting to make me a bit more optimistic. Not so much now, unless there are good reasons for the increase.

[AP]

My God.

[FighttheGoodFight]

That is the first 500+ day and now brings the 7-day average to the highest it has ever been.

Interested to see what Stitt says at 2pm.

[Pete]

Yep, 585 new cases today; the previous record was 482.

And typically, Wed-Fri bring the biggest numbers of the week.

2 more people died.

[Pete]

The 7-day rolling average is now pushing 400 cases a day.

4.4% positive rate.

[kukblue1]

585 today. Hopefully the big increase can be explained by some mitigating factors. Will be interested to see how the rest of the week goes. Had been expecting a big number at some point but the last couple days were starting to make me a bit more optimistic. Not so much now, unless there are good reasons for the increase.

Not shocked one bit I knew we were going to hit over 500 this this week but our politicians will get on the air and be like our 7-Day average is lower than what it was 7 days ago everything is fine. thats because we had low numbers on Monday and that's the only reason 7 day avg will look good

[jdizzle]

It is not AS concerning the case spikes, when you consider that deaths are not going up, hardly at all. I wonder what the hospitalizations look like today. If they are still relatively low, then I feel we need to stop freaking the heck out EVERY SINGLE DAY over case #s, and start focusing on the hospitalization #s increasing or decreasing.