Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[Roger S]

Let's hope this trend doesn't continue.

Well the mask wearing trend has almost totally abated for sure.... I was in Crest, Tractor Supply, and Atwoods Sunday morning and other than the mask on my face and a few dangling from Crest employees faces improperly, if at all, I saw one other person wearing a mask...... I know we're nowhere near 99.9% vaccination rate but 99.9% of people have apparently stopped wearing masks.

[soonerguru]

Well the mask wearing trend has almost totally abated for sure.... I was in Crest, Tractor Supply, and Atwoods Sunday morning and other than the mask on my face and a few dangling from Crest employees faces improperly, if at all, I saw one other person wearing a mask...... I know we're nowhere near 99.9% vaccination rate but 99.9% of people have apparently stopped wearing masks.

I guess that indicates that 99.9% of people at Crest and Tractor Supply are fully vaccinated! Great news!

[BoulderSooner]

Well the mask wearing trend has almost totally abated for sure.... I was in Crest, Tractor Supply, and Atwoods Sunday morning and other than the mask on my face and a few dangling from Crest employees faces improperly, if at all, I saw one other person wearing a mask...... I know we're nowhere near 99.9% vaccination rate but 99.9% of people have apparently stopped wearing masks.

the mask trend has been that way for several months now ..

[jn1780]

the mask trend has been that way for several months now ..

Yep, pretty much ended when CDC updated their guidelines.

[jn1780]

Thought I'd provide some weekly numbers since they are trending up rather than staying flat.


As of Friday, the 7-day average for new cases was 163; the last 2 Fridays have been 120 and 110.

Hospitalizations on Friday were 137, up from a low of 106 on 6/13.

ICU on Friday was 52, up from a low of 29 on 6/3.


Let's hope this trend doesn't continue.

The southern summer surge last year lasted from about 6/15 to 7/18 so I don't find it all that surprising that were seeing an increase.

[Jersey Boss]

This chart of new cases by state that includes both % and #'s shows it is not a "southern surge". The numbers seem to indicate more of a corollary with vaccination rate than geography.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...vid-cases.html

[TheTravellers]

This chart of new cases by state that includes both % and #'s shows it is not a "southern surge". The numbers seem to indicate more of a corollary with vaccination rate than geography.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...vid-cases.html

The 5 states going up are all along the southern border, and their vaccination rates are all below 40%. 2 of those states are southern (3 if you include OK). So while it's not really "southern" now, I'm betting it will be soon because southern states' vaccination rates aren't going to improve significantly anytime soon.

[Jersey Boss]

The 5 states going up are all along the southern border, and their vaccination rates are all below 40%. 2 of those states are southern (3 if you include OK). So while it's not really "southern" now, I'm betting it will be soon because southern states' vaccination rates aren't going to improve significantly anytime soon.

The state with the greatest % increase is Missouri at a 55% increase in the last two weeks. This is followed by OK at 53%, Arkansas at 46%, Utah at 24% and AZ at 8%. Neither Utah, Missouri, or Oklahoma have a southern border. Texas however has a decrease in the last two weeks of 10% and has a southern border longer than any other state.

[TheTravellers]

The state with the greatest % increase is Missouri at a 55% increase in the last two weeks. This is followed by OK at 53%, Arkansas at 46%, Utah at 24% and AZ at 8%. Neither Utah, Missouri, or Oklahoma have a southern border. Texas however has a decrease in the last two weeks of 10% and has a southern border longer than any other state.

I slightly misspoke, I meant to say they are either along the southern border or a southern state (except Utah, oops). I will still bet you that there will be a surge among "southern states" (defined as "they used to be part of the Confederacy").

[kukblue1]

Any new numbers on breakthrough cases? If they are so low than why don't they tell people. Hey look of the 2 million double vaccinated in the last 3 months only 10 have had to go to the hospital.

[PoliSciGuy]

Here you go: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...-says-n1268530

[Pete]

The 7-day rolling average for new cases is up to 190; it had been as low as 104 on 6/9.

Hospitalizations are currently at 129, up from the low for the year of 106 on 6/13.

ICU is 36 up from the low for the year of 29 on 6/3.


Nothing to panic over but we are headed in the wrong direction and over the last month, have been adding more new cases as a percentage than almost every state.

[PoliSciGuy]

Gotta think this is the start of our Delta surge. Nothing to be worried about if you’re vaccinated, but for those with just one shot or not vaxxed at all this could be among the more dangerous periods of the pandemic.

[catcherinthewry]

The saddest thing to me at this point is the deaths from covid-19. With the vaccination available to anyone who wants it every death for some time now has been preventable.

[jccouger]

The saddest thing to me at this point is the deaths from covid-19. With the vaccination available to anyone who wants it every death for some time now has been preventable.

It's mostly to people who have chosen to treat covid irresponsibly with lack of vaccination, so I'm not really sad about it now honestly. It's like being sad about somebody driving 150 mph on the highway with no seatbelt & getting in a single car accident & dying.

[OKCretro]

The saddest thing to me at this point is the deaths from covid-19. With the vaccination available to anyone who wants it every death for some time now has been preventable.

Not true, i know a lady who got Covid at the end of last year and past away just recently. She had been in the hospital the entire time. Use the word "most" or say "almost all of the deaths for some time have been preventable"

Vaccine was not available to the masses when she tested positive.

[catcherinthewry]

Not true, i know a lady who got Covid at the end of last year and past away just recently. She had been in the hospital the entire time. Use the word "most" or say "almost all of the deaths for some time have been preventable"

Vaccine was not available to the masses when she tested positive.

Oh FFS.

[oklip955]

I just want to bring back up the fact that not everyone can receive the vaccine. There are some who are allergic to some component of it, others with a medical condition that prevents them from getting it right now. Others run the risk of making their medical issue get worse. I will admit that this group is a very very small group but can get covid not to their fault, and not being antivac. Please please consider these people.

[catcherinthewry]

I just want to bring back up the fact that not everyone can receive the vaccine. There are some who are allergic to some component of it, others with a medical condition that prevents them from getting it right now. Others run the risk of making their medical issue get worse. I will admit that this group is a very very small group but can get covid not to their fault, and not being antivac. Please please consider these people.

Yes, of course. And it's the anti-vaccers that are prolonging the pandemic and keeping these unfortunate people in jeopardy.

[Thomas Vu]

There were protocols pre vaccine, and we all know how that went.

[Jersey Boss]

This is not a positive development for the metro and state.

Doctor concerned about delta variant as Oklahoma sees 90% increase in new COVID-19 cases per day
https://www.koco.com/article/doctor-...r-day/36842479

[Timshel]

Sounds like there are a couple of clusters that are responsible for a decent chunk of this. Felt a bit better (at least for me and mine) when Holt tweeted a couple of days ago that cases in OKC continue to decrease. Now that being said, I'm not optimistic that these clusters will be contained before spreading to the rest of the state, including OKC.

https://twitter.com/KassieMcClung/st...78265245847552

The alert level map in these tweets is pretty interesting. Was surprised but excited to see OK county is almost down to the "green" alert level (< 1.43 cases /100k). Hopefully that will hold. Other than Carter and Comanche counties (Ardmore and Lawton), NE Oklahoma definitely seems to be where a lot of the cases are located. Hopefully things can get contained (recognizing the situation is much much better than it was over the winter) before we see even more significant spread through the entire state.

I just wish we as a state had, over the past year+, developed some decent contact tracing tools that could be utilized to try and snuff some of these clusters out before they spread too far. I suppose even if we had, the likelihood that a critical mass of folks would have been willing to use it is probably pretty small.

[Edmond Hausfrau]

This is not a positive development for the metro and state.

Doctor concerned about delta variant as Oklahoma sees 90% increase in new COVID-19 cases per day
https://www.koco.com/article/doctor-...r-day/36842479

Dale Bratzler deserves hero pay at this point for everything he has done. I can't believe that he's not exhausted and potentially trying to figure out how to get on faculty in a new state that actually listens to him and takes his work seriously.

[Pete]

We had more new cases today than any Friday in over 2 months.

I don't like the current trend line and there is no question things are going to get worse in the fall and winter.

[BDP]

Yes, of course. And it's the anti-vaccers that are prolonging the pandemic and keeping these unfortunate people in jeopardy.

There is no doubt that is true. But there is also a significant amount of the population that are NOT anti-vaxx, yet still have not gotten the vaccine. This is from more than a month ago, but I think it's probably still relevant:

They Haven’t Gotten a Covid Vaccine Yet. But They Aren’t ‘Hesitant’ Either.

According to a new U.S. census estimate, some 30 million American adults who are open to getting a coronavirus vaccine have not managed to actually do so. Their ranks are larger than the hesitant — more than the 28 million who said they would probably or definitely not get vaccinated, and than the 16 million who said they were unsure.

There are a significant amount of people who "just haven't gotten around to it". And they're more significant in numbers than the wack-a-do anti-vaxxers and 'I don't need it' freeloaders. You find a way to get the shots into those people arms, and you have solved the greatest world wide crises of the last two generations lifetimes'. Literally.