Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Pete]

901 new cases today.

13 more reported deaths.


Numbers are starting to trend up again.

[RustytheBailiff]

901 new cases today.

13 more reported deaths.


Numbers are starting to trend up again.

Just in time for school....


STAY SAFE WEAR MASKS

[soonerguru]

Here is a list of known school districts reporting cases in the first week of school. These are only available because they have been reported. There are probably many more we don't know about. Unreal.

1- Achille
2- Avant
2- Barnsdall
3- Bennington
4- Boise City
5- Boswell
6- Broken Arrow (98 quarantined/33 positive)
7- Brushy
8- Canton
9- Clinton (Clinton HS & an elementary site)
10- Colbert (Westward Elementary)
11- Crescent
11- Dickson
12- Edmond (Edmond public school site)
13- Edmond (St Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic/private school)
14- Elk City (an intermediate site)
15- Fort Towson
16- Goodwell
17- Guymon (Guymon MS)
18- Hartshorne
19- Heavener
20- Hulbert (Hulbert HS)
21- Indianola
22- Kingfisher (Heritage Elementary)
22- Kingston
23- Konawa
24- Lawton
25- Mannsville
26- Maryetta (Stilwell, OK)
27- McAlester
28- Mid-Del (Carl Albert MS)
29- Moore (Moore HS, Westmoore HS)
30- Morrison (Morrison Elementary)
31- Muskogee
32- New Lima (high school)
33- Newcastle (Newcastle Elementary)
34- OKCPS (Metro Tech & others)
35- Oktaha (Oktaha HS)
36- Pauls Valley (Pauls Valley HS
37- Pryor (middle school)
38- Putnam City
39- Quinton
39- Santa Fe South (charter)
40- Savanna (Savanna HS)
41- Shawnee (more than one site)
42- Silo
43- Stigler (Stigler Grade School)
44- Stuart
45- Tulsa (Bishop Kelley/private)
46- Tupelo (Tupelo HS)
47- Varnum
48- Wagoner
49- Wewoka (middle school)
50- Yukon

Just think, Oklahoma had more positive Covid cases in its public schools in two days than the entire nation of New Zealand has had in a month.

[Pete]

OU just reported 9 positive cases on the football team after only being away from campus for a week.

Schools and universities are going to be spreading this thing like crazy. Younger people are particularly careless.

[oklip955]

I am glad the college classes I am taking this semester are online. (well these would have been on line without covid 19). I'll just continue to stay home and try to stay safe.

[PhiAlpha]

OU just reported 9 positive cases on the football team after only being away from campus for a week.

Schools and universities are going to be spreading this thing like crazy. Younger people are particularly careless.

To a point, maybe that’s a good thing. They’re in somewhat of a bubble and it can run its course through the student population between now and Christmas Break. If they’re wearing masks to class, it should minimize the spread to the faculty. Regardless, it’s probably going to spread among college students one way or another, might be better to get it over with. Definitely happened that way with swine flu when I was in school there...we all got it.

[Pete]

To a point, maybe that’s a good thing. They’re in somewhat of a bubble and it can run its course through the student population between now and Christmas Break. If they’re wearing masks to class, it should minimize the spread to the faculty. Regardless, it’s probably going to spread among college students one way or another, might be better to get it over with. Definitely happened that way with swine flu when I was in school there...we all got it.

There will be at least 20,000 students in that small area, living in dense dorms and apartments and sitting in large classrooms, rotating to a bunch of others.

Way, way worse than living at home.

[Bill Robertson]

To a point, maybe that’s a good thing. They’re in somewhat of a bubble and it can run its course through the student population between now and Christmas Break. If they’re wearing masks to class, it should minimize the spread to the faculty. Regardless, it’s probably going to spread among college students one way or another, might be better to get it over with. Definitely happened that way with swine flu when I was in school there...we all got it.

But what is running it’s course? I was a firm, maybe wishful thinking, in antibodies being a legitimate answer to the virus. Then I had them for about 5 months but now test negative. I’m converted now to questioning if having it and getting “over” it is a ticket to safety.

[PhiAlpha]

But what is running it’s course? I was a firm, maybe wishful thinking, in antibodies being a legitimate answer to the virus. Then I had them for about 5 months but now test negative. I’m converted now to questioning if having it and getting “over” it is a ticket to safety.

Hell I don’t know. It just seems like an inevitability among young people at this point.

[PoliSciGuy]

But what is running it’s course? I was a firm, maybe wishful thinking, in antibodies being a legitimate answer to the virus. Then I had them for about 5 months but now test negative. I’m converted now to questioning if having it and getting “over” it is a ticket to safety.

Keep in mind there's a massive difference between antibodies and T-cells. Antibodies, by their very nature, decline over time for every disease (otherwise we'd be walking around with lymph nodes the size of basketballs). It's the memory T-cells that take over over time, and a lot of studies show that the T-cell response to this thing is pretty robust even after a long period of time.

[PhiAlpha]

There will be at least 20,000 students in that small area, living in dense dorms and apartments and sitting in large classrooms, rotating to a bunch of others.

Way, way worse than living at home.

oh absolutely no doubt about that.

[Pete]

^

Students also come and go all the time.

Home for the weekend or fall or spring break, Christmas break, trips...

Then they all pile back into the dorms and bars and cafeterias and classrooms.

[kukblue1]

It's not going anywhere it's here to stay. We are going to have to figure out how to deal with it or we're going to be stuck at our homes forever. That's how I feel right now that could change in a week though

[Bunty]

On the down side, OSU reports 23 positive COVID-19 cases from sorority:
https://www.stwnewspress.com/covid-1...dc57de8c7.html

[Pete]

On the down side, OSU reports 23 positive COVID-19 cases from sorority:
https://www.stwnewspress.com/covid-1...dc57de8c7.html

They've been back, what, less than a week??

[Bill Robertson]

Keep in mind there's a massive difference between antibodies and T-cells. Antibodies, by their very nature, decline over time for every disease (otherwise we'd be walking around with lymph nodes the size of basketballs). It's the memory T-cells that take over over time, and a lot of studies show that the T-cell response to this thing is pretty robust even after a long period of time.

I know. I went to my Dr last week for something unrelated. Or I think unrelated, who really knows at this point, and she discussed what she knows about antibodies wearing off but t-cell memory staying around.

[Bill Robertson]

Are the initial, and I would hope, periodic testing of college students being reported to the state for inclusion on the EORs? I’ve read on OU’s website that they are having students do an at home saliva test. Is that a rapid test or a lab confirmed test?

[Bill Robertson]

From many national news sources:

New CDC guidance says COVID-19 rates in children ‘steadily increasing’

And we’re sending them to in person classes! Even the Tin Man would know this is a HORRIBLE idea.

[jdizzle]

OU just reported 9 positive cases on the football team after only being away from campus for a week.

Schools and universities are going to be spreading this thing like crazy. Younger people are particularly careless.

I believe that EVERY one of those 9 cases are from players who left Norman. Those who stayed here didn't test positive. Who would have thought that college campuses might be safer than home, when protocols are in place. But yes, when you have more college kids there, more and more won't follow protocols.

[Pete]

I believe that EVERY one of those 9 cases are from players who left Norman. Those who stayed here didn't test positive. Who would have thought that college campuses might be safer than home, when protocols are in place. But yes, when you have more college kids there, more and more won't follow protocols.

Ridiculous. Up until they left campus, they were the only ones there; effectively in a bubble.

And they had positive cases on the team while in camp, by the way.

[PoliSciGuy]

From many national news sources:

New CDC guidance says COVID-19 rates in children ‘steadily increasing’

And we’re sending them to in person classes! Even the Tin Man would know this is a HORRIBLE idea.

The flu has killed more kids this year than Covid: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisiona...-akS6q3DSFMQsg

[mugofbeer]

Are the initial, and I would hope, periodic testing of college students being reported to the state for inclusion on the EORs? I’ve read on OU’s website that they are having students do an at home saliva test. Is that a rapid test or a lab confirmed test?

Students must take and be shown COVID negative before they will be allowed into dorms. Their guidelines did not state which type.

[jdizzle]

Ridiculous. Up until they left campus, they were the only ones there; effectively in a bubble.

And they had positive cases on the team while in camp, by the way.

Like, very few total (and all on the first round). Multiple rounds of testing without any positives.

[d-usa]

The flu has killed more kids this year than Covid: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisiona...-akS6q3DSFMQsg

Which is something you would expect when you have kids in school during flu season, and effectively had no school at all since COVID started.

Every “kids don’t spread it” argument is based on a reality that had kids effectively locked down at home, to expect those findings to remain the same is unrealistic. The theories of kids not spreading the disease and not being affected are being proven to be wrong pretty rapidly.

[PoliSciGuy]

Which is something you would expect when you have kids in school during flu season, and effectively had no school at all since COVID started.

Every “kids don’t spread it” argument is based on a reality that had kids effectively locked down at home, to expect those findings to remain the same is unrealistic. The theories of kids not spreading the disease and not being affected are being proven to be wrong pretty rapidly.

No one said that kids don't spread it, but rather that kids spread it at a much lower rate than adults, there's very little proof that they spread it to adults, and the least likely to succeed from virtual learning (3rd grade and younger) are much more likely to be asymptomatic and not display severe symptoms.