Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[BoulderSooner]

A good amount are in person. Campus is packed as usual and all the bars on campus corner are usually busy with lines out the door.

yep campus corner on friday and sat is about like normal

[BoulderSooner]

I'm pretty sure OU isn't holding in person classes. Am I wrong?

lots of in person classes campus has tons of people on it every day .. and the bars on campus corner are full on the weekends

[Pete]

OU has already announced they will be going back to full in-person classes in the fall.

[Bill Robertson]

OU has already announced they will be going back to full in-person classes in the fall.

I saw that when I researched what they were doing now. I hope by fall it will be fine to be 100% in person.

[FighttheGoodFight]

They are announcing it early so new students will want to come in the Fall. Numbers weren't down too much but you still had students who might have taken a gap year or done online classes at a local community college since they couldn't get the "full" college experience this year.

All in all I think OU did about as good of a job as they could. I'm sure it is a tough balancing act. Sometimes I ponder what Gallogy would have done... maybe that is for another thread. Carry on.

[ditm4567]

OU has already announced they will be going back to full in-person classes in the fall.

Are people shocked by this announcement for some reason?

[DowntownMan]

lots of in person classes campus has tons of people on it every day .. and the bars on campus corner are full on the weekends

Well if this is the case and we aren't having a huge issue with cases there - then that's good news.

[C_M_25]

Looks like Oklahoma’s trend is now falling in line with the recent rise in cases nationally. People are getting complacent again...

[Pete]

917 new cases today; numbers are definitely going up again. 7-day rolling average 648.

They are still reporting zero additional deaths as they reconcile to the much larger CDC number which is now listed at 7,202.

Hospitalizations are 366 (-38).

ICU is 109 (-9).

[soonerguru]

80 deaths were reported in the Oklahoman today, for what it's worth.

[Pete]

^

The death numbers have become meaningless.

There is no way to compare or plot trends.

[Bill Robertson]

^

The death numbers have become meaningless.

There is no way to compare or plot trends.

Isn't that the truth. And it's adding to the "getting hard to even trust" level. The Oklahoman reports 80. The daily notification says 0. The EORs have posted the same 56 deaths and 4534 total deaths since Tuesday. It's sad how badly the data is handled here.

[kukblue1]

Where are we at in terms of turn around time for testing. I know in the fall it was taking 7-10 days to get test results. I imagine now it's down to 2-3 days or is there any way to really know

[Bill Robertson]

Where are we at in terms of turn around time for testing. I know in the fall it was taking 7-10 days to get test results. I imagine now it's down to 2-3 days or is there any way to really know

I'm pretty sure it's around that. Rapid tests can be a couple hours or less.

[PoliSciGuy]

Second part of Phase 2 is opening up, which includes Staff and residents in congregate locations and worksites, public health staff supporting front line efforts. Estimated population of around 22k or so. Phase 3 (teachers and students in universities) and essential business personnel are expected to be eligible sometime in early April, if not sooner.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Second part of Phase 2 is opening up, which includes Staff and residents in congregate locations and worksites, public health staff supporting front line efforts. Estimated population of around 22k or so. Phase 3 (teachers and students in universities) and essential business personnel are expected to be eligible sometime in early April, if not sooner.

This is pretty much the final phase. Almost 1.5 million in phase 3. Just about everyone is in an essential business if you read the list.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Where are we at in terms of turn around time for testing. I know in the fall it was taking 7-10 days to get test results. I imagine now it's down to 2-3 days or is there any way to really know

The last PCR (non rapid) my wife took was 8 hours.

[soonerguru]

^

The death numbers have become meaningless.

There is no way to compare or plot trends.

And, while this is probably no conspiracy, the fudging of these numbers, due to negligence or simply being overwhelmed, serves the interests of those who do not want the public to fully understand the scope of the deaths.

It's unfortunate that we have lost all sense of scale.

I did trust the data the state was releasing, so I was shocked when they fessed up to, oh, just another 35% of deaths you didn't know about. Sorry about that.

It would have been optimum for them to say they were seriously falling behind on reporting deaths during the most recent spike, which began in earnest in October. They did not. We did know there was a lag of a couple of weeks to a month to report, but thousands of deaths not being reported in a timely manner is a wholesale breakdown, and media deserve some criticism here for not probing further.

Perhaps the media were just as blindsided as the public as to the scope of this omission of information.

But it boils down to, "well, we tried and couldn't do it, so we are just going with these federal numbers we didn't previously accept." Wut?

[Pete]

978 new cases today.

Hosptalizations are 346 (-20).

ICU is 100 (-9).

[Bill Robertson]

The new cases are back up a little. But they aren't in the thousands like they were. And they're up from numbers that were probably artificially low due to a weekend followed by a week of snow and deep freeze followed by another weekend.

[Pete]

461 new cases today.

7-day rolling average 641.

[LocoAko]

Where are we at in terms of turn around time for testing. I know in the fall it was taking 7-10 days to get test results. I imagine now it's down to 2-3 days or is there any way to really know

I'm a few days late, but Friday evening at 11PM or so I booked an appointment with OU Health for 10AM. In and out in two minutes, and had my results at 4:30PM. Amazingly fast and easy by now.

[Bill Robertson]

I'm a few days late, but Friday evening at 11PM or so I booked an appointment with OU Health for 10AM. In and out in two minutes, and had my results at 4:30PM. Amazingly fast and easy by now.

I've unfollowed Oklahoma Source because of all the comments that cases are down because it's very difficult to get tested. I sat in the office one day and found I could make all the appointments I wanted to. Same day or next day.

[soonerguru]

Here comes the dust-up. Oklahoma's death toll discrepancies were the biggest of any state. And, to my earlier point, as the article mentions, Gov. Stitt "touted" Oklahoma's death rate while we were unaware of about 2,500 deaths.

https://oklahoman.com/article/568366...navirus-deaths

[jccouger]

Here comes the dust-up. Oklahoma's death toll discrepancies were the biggest of any state. And, to my earlier point, as the article mentions, Gov. Stitt "touted" Oklahoma's death rate while we were unaware of about 2,500 deaths.

https://oklahoman.com/article/568366...navirus-deaths

Yeah, I can understand the explanation of why it happened but to try to normalize this is not logical. This is completely inexcusable & is at best negligent. At worst there is manipulation, and I'm not willing to write it off.