Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Pete]

I was talking about Florida numbers today sorry if I didn't specifically say that I think they had I think 756 cases today and Oklahoma had over 1,000. Hard for me to imagine in any scenario that a state with five times the population has less cases

Florida had 3,266 cases today:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[Mott]

Florida had 3,266 cases today:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

And 101 new deaths, compared to 11 in Oklahoma.

[kukblue1]

Florida had 3,266 cases today:

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health...ip-below-1-000 they must of had bad numbers than.

[C_M_25]

Pandemic fatigue is the real deal. Ugh. Need another vacation.

[jerrywall]

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health...ip-below-1-000 they must of had bad numbers than.

Yeah... looks like they had about a third of the normal number of tests...

The state received 18,410 tests Sunday, and of those, 4.23% were positive. Sunday’s test returns were less than half the volume of tests received Saturday and less than a third of the daily average for the last two weeks of just over 64,000 tests.

[SEMIweather]

Pandemic fatigue is the real deal. Ugh. Need another vacation.

If you don't have any other obligations, would recommend driving to the middle of nowhere and going on long hikes on the weekends. Probably has helped my mental health more than anything else over the past six months.

[soonerguru]

You tell me since your an expert how Florida with the population of 21 million people has less cases than Oklahoma with a population of 4 million people. Social distancing is the best way to stop the spread of the virus doesn't mean you have to close everything down you just need to stay away from people as much as possible. And I don't want to hear about how the Dakota's are spread out and they have social distance they have towns and cities just like we do. If you think paper mask are the only answer your fooling yourself.

I don't know what you're asking here. This reads like nonsense.

Why are you trying to overcomplicate things? No one here that I recall has made the claim that paper masks are the "only answer."

Again, look at what people have done in other countries and even other US states. There are a few things that can be done to get the virus under control but our governor and president aren't interested in doing them.

[Bunty]

Hey, Bunty, wondering if you think this is something people other than 65-plus should now be concerned about in Stillwater.

https://www.ocolly.com/news/stillwat...440a5c06e.html

No. Several days ago I went to Insomnia Cookies on the strip with a mask on. I had to wait outside for a short while, because it said on the door no more than three inside at a time. But none of those three inside wore a mask. The last time I was there, everybody had a mask on. So I don't think as big of a majority of people in Stillwater are treating COVID-19 as seriously as they were before.

If it's getting down to the majority of the people not wanting to take COVID-19 seriously, then I say, fine, and so let's get everything back to normal as it was before March. Just let me keep my freedom to continue to wear a mask when in public places and for whoever else still believes the same way. After all, I don't trust very many who test positive to wear one.

[Bill Robertson]

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health...ip-below-1-000 they must of had bad numbers than.

You might try going by a rule of not getting news from anyone that has a donate button on their home page.

[Pete]

https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/health...ip-below-1-000 they must of had bad numbers than.

Your posts are making less and less sense.

And why on earth are you posting links to tiny, obscure sites using data from one Sunday?

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Your posts are making less and less sense.

And why on earth are you posting links to tiny, obscure sites using data from one Sunday?

This parody sums up in a lighthearted way the experts vs random people craziness. It’s 30 seconds. Short. Gets the point across.
[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=630627110993109

[jerrywall]

You might try going by a rule of not getting news from anyone that has a donate button on their home page.

So no NPR news? I'm not sure the source was the issue.

[Bill Robertson]

So no NPR news? I'm not sure the source was the issue.

Yes. I would include NPR. Since I consider myself apolitical I don't want to hear bias. So I pretty much avoid news altogether and only look at data from the sources that generate the data. I listen to some NPR shows that are more entertainment oriented but I've had to stop listening to their topic shows because most are very biased. Beyond that I'd have to get political which isn't allowed here and I don't do.

[Pete]

980 new cases today; 7-day rolling average now 1,005.

628 hospitalized; this number continues to go up.

13 additional reported deaths.

169 new cases in OK County.

[Bill Robertson]

The hospitalizations are concerning.

[Libbymin]

I definitely don't feel great about these numbers being so high before we get into the fall and winter temperatures where more people are inside and the flu starts going around too.

[Pete]

I definitely don't feel great about these numbers being so high before we get into the fall and winter temperatures where more people are inside and the flu starts going around too.

That's what the CDC has been saying for months. But here we are.

[Edmond Hausfrau]

That's what the CDC has been saying for months. But here we are.

Flu shot.
Flu shot.
Please get your seasonal flu shot, everyone.

[Jesseda]

Flu shot.
Flu shot.
Please get your seasonal flu shot, everyone.

Went and got mine this past weekend. The place i get mine ran out of the flu shot for children under 18 so my kids are on a waiting list for next shipment. The person giving me my flu shot told me they have been really busy with flu shots so that is good news that people are taking this season serious

[d-usa]

Stillwater hospital has been on surge operations haven’t they?

[Bill Robertson]

Stillwater hospital has been on surge operations haven’t they?

I did see that on the news as I was waiting on the weather.

[FighttheGoodFight]

5th highest in cases
3rd highest in positivity rate
We are in the Red Zone according to the White House Task Force

https://coronavirus.health.ok.gov/si...rt09272020.pdf

[gopokes88]

Best Covid article I've read in a long while. (0% politics)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...ndemic/616548/

[soonerguru]

I would still go with the governor from NY as the worse. I base my evaluation on deaths per million.

#1 NY ---1,828 deaths per 1 million people from the virus

# 37 Oklahoma 257 deaths

#39 South Dakota 252 deaths per 1 million people

The decision by the governors up east to send the infected elderly patients back in to the nursing homes might be the single worst gubernatorial decision in my lifetime. The 2nd worst might be keeping the subway system open in NYC throughout the entire process. If you haven't seen the graph that shows how many of the Covid infections nation wide came from NYC is astounding.

Not sure where this data comes from, but is this supposed to state that Oklahoma has 257 deaths per 1,000,000 people?

[soonerguru]

Sad story about "SUPER HEALTHY COLLEGE STUDENT," a 19-year-old who died of COVID-19 yesterday, weeks after ending his quarantine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/u...SjLBbRD4n5FxoA