Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[TheTravellers]

Yes, but it is much easier for the airline to say "in accordance with federal regulations" than "in accordance with company policy". It moves the argument to "you will get in trouble for not complying, and we will get in trouble for not enforcing your compliance".

Yes, this! It does not a damn bit of good to have a sign up saying "Masks required" if you let someone walk in without one and act like they're a normal person and wait on them just like normal without even saying a thing. This has (theoretically) enforcement teeth behind it.

[Pete]

2,882 new cases today; 7-day rolling average 2,340.

43 additional reported deaths; 7-day rolling average 38.3.

[DowntownMan]

I think today marks two weeks since we started seeing “lower” new case counts. By lower I mean like 2000 not 4000.
Today’s death counts, while still not zero it was 17 which is lower than the 30-40 it’s been lately. Hopefully this is a trend that continues to drop.

Would be nice if we could get the vulnerable vaccinated so that the hospitals and deaths are continuing to drop regardless of the case counts. That was the ultimate goal right?

[catcherinthewry]

2,882 new cases today; 7-day rolling average 2,340.

43 additional reported deaths; 7-day rolling average 38.3.

Those are yesterday's numbers. Today's were 1396 new cases and 17 new deaths.

[runOKC]

Those are yesterday's numbers. Today's were 1396 new cases and 17 new deaths.

He posted that yesterday.

[catcherinthewry]

He posted that yesterday.

My mistake. I wonder why it just came up in my Latest Posts at 11:30, I'm sure I checked it multiple times yesterday afternoon and evening. Weird.

[Pete]

1,396 new cases today; 7-day rolling average down to 2,288.

17 additional deaths; 7-day rolling average 38.7.


Updated hospitalization numbers will be out this evening.

[C_M_25]

Very promising to see the numbers trending down. Hopefully this continues. Let's ramp up those vaccines!!! FYI, my parents said that they weren't getting the vaccine and they stand a decent chance to succumbing to this thing if they catch it...grrrr!! Just don't understand that thinking.

Let's hope we can continue to ramp up these vaccines and get our baseline down before these new variants take hold.

[catch22]

Anyone who has had it, were there any sudden onset, but quickly vanishing symptoms? I was at work yesterday (I am in good shape, and work a physically demanding job) and was plugging in the power to an airplane. The head of the cord weighs about 10 lbs and requires some decent force to push into the receptacle, but nothing I haven't done literally tens of thousands of times. When I did that it felt like I had run a mile, absolutely nothing in my lungs. I stayed crouched down for a second or two, but got up and was fine. I proceeded to work the flight, unloading and loading about 100 bags like nothing was even wrong. That episode really perked my ears up, and afterward I did notice some routine things were wearing me out/making me out of breath. For example, climbing a simple flight of stairs to go up the jetway to hand paperwork to the pilots. But it seems very random, I can power through some physically demanding things with no effort at all, and other mundane tasks started wiping me out, but randomly and only for just a few seconds. If I had any other symptoms at all I would say I have brain fog - forgetting where I am going, or what I was doing. Or forgetting something immediately after being told it, but only randomly and very briefly.

I am getting the vaccine tomorrow at the airport, and we have a free testing site at the airport for employees - I may do both in the same trip.

Anyone have random, brief breathing difficulties, but otherwise fine?

[dankrutka]

Would be nice if we could get the vulnerable vaccinated so that the hospitals and deaths are continuing to drop regardless of the case counts. That was the ultimate goal right?

I'm confused. Isn't this exactly what is happening? And, Oklahoma is doing better than most states at it.

My mom moved from Oklahoma to Utah recently and she has been frustrated because all her Oklahoma friends have been vaccinated and she still doesn't even have an idea yet when she will get the opportunity in Utah.

[FighttheGoodFight]

I'm confused. Isn't this exactly what is happening? And, Oklahoma is doing better than most states at it.

My mom moved from Oklahoma to Utah recently and she has been frustrated because all her Oklahoma friends have been vaccinated and she still doesn't even have an idea yet when she will get the opportunity in Utah.

Pretty much. People can talk about how bad Oklahoma's response to the pandemic was or was not but you can't say we aren't doing a good job getting this vaccine into Oklahomans. Wait until we are done with the 65+ population. I am guessing once they start with teachers we will be doing even more per week (only limited by supply).

[king183]

We are close to using every bit of supply we have each week, so unless the federal government gives us more, the rate of vaccination should be relatively constant. We're doing a very good job overall.

The major exception to that is the tens of thousands of vaccines that were allocated to CVS and Walgreens to vaccinate long term care facility residents, but are currently sitting on a shelf. We should take those back immediately and use them. They represent nearly 60,000 vaccines that should have been in people's arms by now. The state already stopped allocating to CVS and Walgreens because of their slowness. It's inexcusable that these pharmacies have failed so badly.

[DowntownMan]

I'm confused. Isn't this exactly what is happening? And, Oklahoma is doing better than most states at it.

My mom moved from Oklahoma to Utah recently and she has been frustrated because all her Oklahoma friends have been vaccinated and she still doesn't even have an idea yet when she will get the opportunity in Utah.

I should have elaborated more. Yes Oklahoma really is doing a good job with vaccines, yes some are frustrated with not getting appointment but there is just a high demand and limited supply. I guess I meant continue doing what we are doing keep getting more of the vulnerable in other age groups next and hope our trends keep going down to a manageable level

[catch22]

I believe states are receiving a proportional distribution (population / US pop). Colorado is receiving I think 20,000 per day. Oklahoma is probably receiving 15-16k. Of course, this depends on the total allotment available for distribution on any given day.

[TheTravellers]

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[Bill Robertson]

Israel has been one of the most aggressive countries for vaccinating for COVID. I saw this in The Guardian.

"Israel’s health ministry released its first official results last week, showing that only 317 out of 715,425, or 0.04%, of people became infected a week after becoming fully vaccinated against the disease – the time when increased immunity is expected to kick in. Of the vaccinated people who were infected, 16 had to be treated in hospital, or 0.002% of the total."

[FighttheGoodFight]

I should have elaborated more. Yes Oklahoma really is doing a good job with vaccines, yes some are frustrated with not getting appointment but there is just a high demand and limited supply. I guess I meant continue doing what we are doing keep getting more of the vulnerable in other age groups next and hope our trends keep going down to a manageable level

I do think an unfortunate side effect of using and online only appointment system with 65+ population is it makes it very hard. I think it will get better as we open it to younger audiences but we absolutely have to target all the 65+ who wants it.

[David]

I wonder if it would be legal for the state to cross-reference the appointment system results with, say, the drivers license database to find more of the 65+ population that hasn't been vaccinated yet.

[Outhunder]

Problem with that is DPS is struggling big time with their new system, so I doubt anything having to do with drivers license would work. But I could be wrong.

[Pete]

1,296 new cases today; 7-day rolling average 2,249.

38 additional reported deaths; 7-day rolling average still a very high 39.9.

Hospitalizations are 1,123 (-61).

ICU is 320 (-25).


It really does seem that we've rounded the corner. Hopefully the vaccination rate will start to increase and by this summer things will be a lot better.

[DowntownMan]

1,296 new cases today; 7-day rolling average 2,249.

38 additional reported deaths; 7-day rolling average still a very high 39.9.

Hospitalizations are 1,123 (-61).

ICU is 320 (-25).


It really does seem that we've rounded the corner. Hopefully the vaccination rate will start to increase and by this summer things will be a lot better.

Here’s to hoping we could see that hospital number drop below 1000 again soon! Could be this week of all goes as trending! But can’t get too excited yet. That’s still a lot but much better than it was at its max for sure

[Pete]

2,119 new cases today; 7-day rolling average continues its downward trend at 2,168.

Still tons of deaths, though -- another 52 today; 7-day rolling average 38.0.

Hopsitalizations are 1,048 (-75).

ICU is 303 (-17).

[FighttheGoodFight]

Health department said to expect high deaths for the next couple of weeks as we are seeing the end of the post holiday case surge. With low numbers now and more vaccines I am thinking after a few more high death number weeks we start to see these finally go down. Barring any huge increase in cases from variants this might be a trend from now on.

Stay safe folks. We are almost out of this. I dream of a fall OKCTalk meetup.

[DowntownMan]

2,119 new cases today; 7-day rolling average continues its downward trend at 2,168.

Still tons of deaths, though -- another 52 today; 7-day rolling average 38.0.

Hopsitalizations are 1,048 (-75).

ICU is 303 (-17).

Would be curious to see breakout of the deaths by actual date of occurrence. Are they still recent or over a week ago? Deaths tend to lag the changes in case counts so a big hopefully that they start to drift down following the drop in other numbers

[FighttheGoodFight]

Would be curious to see breakout of the deaths by actual date of occurrence. Are they still recent or over a week ago? Deaths tend to lag the changes in case counts so a big hopefully that they start to drift down following the drop in other numbers

Osdh said 32 were from 1/27 to now. The rest from earlier.