Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Pete]

I wonder if today's numbers were purposely held to not come out before Stitt's press conference?


3,238 new cases today (2nd biggest Wednesday ever); 7-day rolling average 3,044.

42 (!) additional deaths, the 2nd highest single-day total. 7-day rolling average now a record 26.1.

Hospitalizations are 1,717 (note: they have stopped including presumed cases, which had been running about 50-80 a day.

They are also now excluding presumed cases from ICU and that number is now 481, just one off the record. Presumed ICU cases had been in the 4-10 range.

[Buffalo Bill]

I wonder if today's numbers were purposely held to not come out before Stitt's press conference?


3,238 new cases today (2nd biggest Wednesday ever); 7-day rolling average 3,044.

42 (!) additional deaths, the 2nd highest single-day total. 7-day rolling average now a record 26.1.

Hospitalizations are 1,717 (note: they have stopped including presumed cases, which had been running about 50-80 a day.

They are also now excluding presumed cases from ICU and that number is now 481, just one off the record. Presumed ICU cases had been in the 4-10 range.

There's a handy tool from the NY Times to look at ICU bed availability, Covid patients, etc:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...near-you.htmls

[soonerguru]

I wonder if today's numbers were purposely held to not come out before Stitt's press conference?


3,238 new cases today (2nd biggest Wednesday ever); 7-day rolling average 3,044.

42 (!) additional deaths, the 2nd highest single-day total. 7-day rolling average now a record 26.1.

Hospitalizations are 1,717 (note: they have stopped including presumed cases, which had been running about 50-80 a day.

They are also now excluding presumed cases from ICU and that number is now 481, just one off the record. Presumed ICU cases had been in the 4-10 range.

This has happened multiple times now; too many to be a coincidence. What an idiot though if he thinks we won't find out.

[C_M_25]

I wonder if today's numbers were purposely held to not come out before Stitt's press conference?


3,238 new cases today (2nd biggest Wednesday ever); 7-day rolling average 3,044.

42 (!) additional deaths, the 2nd highest single-day total. 7-day rolling average now a record 26.1.

Hospitalizations are 1,717 (note: they have stopped including presumed cases, which had been running about 50-80 a day.

They are also now excluding presumed cases from ICU and that number is now 481, just one off the record. Presumed ICU cases had been in the 4-10 range.

I wish they would quit moving the goalposts on the reported numbers. They’re trying to make it look better than it really is and they have done this multiple times throughout this pandemic. I feel like the world is living in the 21st century and we’re stuck in the 20th.

[C_M_25]

Have you guys seen the recent report that shows Oklahoma as #1 for covid cases per 100k residents?

...winning?

[David]

Stitt's big thing all along has been making us a top ten state, so maybe.

[oklip955]

Wow, the USA total cases for yesterday was 248K + and Caliif was 61K+. The total number of deaths for the USA was 3538. I hate to think of the numbers after Christmas and New Years gatherings. What will our numbers look like? I don't even want to think about it.

[OkiePoke]

I wonder if today's numbers were purposely held to not come out before Stitt's press conference?

You know, I first thought that too. But I don't think Stitt really cares about these numbers, so I don't think he is trying to delay them. I don't think his supporters care either.

[Pete]

You know, I first thought that too. But I don't think Stitt really cares about these numbers, so I don't think he is trying to delay them. I don't think his supporters care either.

But he does get hit with questions from reporters at these things and by delaying anything bad (like yesterday) it completely stops that line of questioning.

His press conferences are all about "here are all the things we're doing" and I'm sure he does not want bad jumps/trends to contradict his positive messages.


I'm not saying he is directly asking the numbers to be held, but it is a possibility. He did completely subvert the White House Task Force reports for several months and they were only made public after a discovery by the press.

[Canoe]

Have you guys seen the recent report that shows Oklahoma as #1 for covid cases per 100k residents?

...winning?

I haven't seen it yet. Can you post a link?

[Anonymous.]

scroll down to the table:

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra...r100klast7days

[Pete]

#1 by a wide margin:

[jerrywall]

^^ Is that ACTIVE cases, rather than new daily cases or something? Because we've not been averaging near 6400 a day yet correct?

[Pete]

^^ Is that ACTIVE cases, rather than new daily cases or something? Because we've not been averaging near 6400 a day yet correct?

I dug into the data...

It seems for whatever reason, the CDC has been dumping the data from many days in one day; and since they did that for the entire week 7 days ago, it has greatly skewed the numbers:

[jerrywall]

My math based on your 7 day rolling puts us at about 77 cases per 100k. Which is still very much not good, and still puts us in the high end at #15. But it's better than that 168.1 figure.

[Pete]

2,975 new cases today; 7-day rolling average 3,250 (3,271 is the all-time high).

16 more deaths; 7-day rolling average is 23.4 down from yesterday's all-time high of 26.1.

Hospitalizations are 1,699 (-18).

ICU is 481, which is the same as yesterday.

[Martin]

^^ Is that ACTIVE cases, rather than new daily cases or something? Because we've not been averaging near 6400 a day yet correct?

it can't be 'active' cases as that number would average around 32k total per day for the state.

i think it is 'new' cases per 100k population... but i suspect that the calculation is based on the average of the per 100k rates for each city or zip code rather than a single calculation for the whole state.

[LocoAko]

I'm starting to know more and more people who have lost family and friends to COVID. It was inevitable with our numbers, but still startling. I worry the (deserved) hype for the vaccine will give people the false impression our guard can start to come down.

[Pete]

I'm starting to know more and more people who have lost family and friends to COVID. It was inevitable with our numbers, but still startling. I worry the (deserved) hype for the vaccine will give people the false impression our guard can start to come down.

Exactly right.

At first it was only a vague worry but now almost everyone knows people who have been infected and the deaths are starting to hit closer to home.

As of today, more than 6% of all Oklahomans (that's every man, woman and child) have been diagnosed with Covid-19. And that percentage goes up every day.

[educator1953]

I heard on CNN just a few minutes ago that the USA had a Covid death every 25 seconds yesterday. Yes, seconds.

That is so sad.

[Libbymin]

We've started working from home at our office since Thanksgiving week but we had one employee who is in her early 30's who tested positive right as that started. She couldn't get out of bed and had no appetite for two weeks. She's better now and no longer negative, but she still feels exhausted all the time. No preexisting conditions either.

[PaddyShack]

Yet my office still keeps colleagues coming in...

[SoonersFan12]

Yet my office still keeps colleagues coming in...

And yet you are there in your office, stop complaining

[Bunty]

it can't be 'active' cases as that number would average around 32k total per day for the state.

i think it is 'new' cases per 100k population... but i suspect that the calculation is based on the average of the per 100k rates for each city or zip code rather than a single calculation for the whole state.

It's in the opinion of the Washington Post that California is the new epicenter of the coronavirus crisis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...pitalizations/

[Bunty]

I heard on CNN just a few minutes ago that the USA had a Covid death every 25 seconds yesterday. Yes, seconds.

That is so sad.

I don't get why people are so willing to risk exposing themselves to the virus, unless they can't help it from their circumstances. Even if under 40 and so only may get a brief and mild illness from it, being sick from it for even just a few days would surely be a drag. But as someone else pointed out, it can last a lot longer than just a few days.

I'm prone to getting sinusitis once every winter, so I know I'm susceptible to infection and don't want to take a chance with getting COVID-19. People who don't worry about getting COVID-19 probably don't get sick every winter from something.