Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[soonerguru]

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.

I double over in a painful and uncontrollable spasm of laughter any time I hear Stitt discuss “our contact tracing efforts.”

[catcherinthewry]

661 cases reported since last Friday. The 7-day average is now 226. That is double what it was in the beginning of this month and a 44% rise in the last week. Upsetting but totally predictable trend.

[BG918]

Vaccine rates for Oklahoma counties as of 6/21

[Canoe]

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.

What is the trigger point where you will start to post updates again?

[Pete]

What is the trigger point where you will start to post updates again?

I'm doing them weekly for now; every Friday.

Otherwise, even 7-day averages are way off because they don't report over the weekend and then lump the numbers together on Monday.

[kukblue1]

Went to pro bass shops Saturday place was packed maybe saw 5 people with a mask. Eye doctor today no one wore a mask. I think there was just a story on NBC over 60% think covid is over and it also showed that people who are being effected right now are mostly from unvaccinated people. I'll see if I can find it and post later.

[TheTravellers]

... I think there was just a story on NBC over 60% think covid is over and it also showed that people who are being effected right now are mostly from unvaccinated people....

COVID *is* over for those of us that are vaccinated. The unvaxxed are about to get hit with the Delta variant pretty soon, bad for them (and yes, fully aware that some unvaxxed *can't* get the vaccine, and truly sad that so many others that *could* get vaccinated won't in order to help you out).

[soonerguru]

I got positive word in the last week that two of my adamantly reluctant work colleagues got vaccinated. I know they are a microcosm of a much broader segment of Okie: urban / suburban folks, relatively conservative FOX News viewers who occasionally get info from CNN and other news sources including the newspaper. Incidentally they both live in South Tulsa. So, a good sign.

One of them flat said she would not get the vaccine two months ago. The other was hesitant to do so and says things like, "I'm not sure I agree with it, but....." Either way, they got the shots and there are a lot more folks like them, so I am hopeful that in Oklahoma we will get over 60% of adults with at least one shot in the next week or so.

BG918, thank you for posting the county map. I've been wondering, what is going on in Caddo County to be leading the state? I'm familiar with the county, from Anadarko in the South to Weatherford in the North. Is it an aggressive push by tribal governments? Either way, hats off to Caddo County for leading the state.

[FighttheGoodFight]

I read today that SSM Health (old st Anthony’s) will require all 40k employees be vaccinated by September.

[TheTravellers]

I read today that SSM Health (old st Anthony’s) will require all 40k employees be vaccinated by September.

[David]

I am curious to see how that flies locally. Certain state governors have not been shy about meddling with the vaccine plans that private companies make.

[OKCretro]

kind of surprised who low Cleveland County is. Isn't it considered the most liberal county in the state with OU?

[Rover]

kind of surprised who low Cleveland County is. Isn't it considered the most liberal county in the state with OU?

Don't know, but it probably has more to to with the students and when they were getting shots. Heck, most college kids think they are invincible.

[Pete]

kind of surprised who low Cleveland County is. Isn't it considered the most liberal county in the state with OU?

In the last presidential election, Cleveland County voted for the Republican candidate by a margin of 14+ points.

Oklahoma County -- by far the closest in the state -- saw just a 1 point spread.

[Scott5114]

In the last presidential election, Cleveland County voted for the Republican candidate by a margin of 14+ points.

Oklahoma County -- by far the closest in the state -- saw just a 1 point spread.

This has a lot to do with what else is in Cleveland County besides just Norman. Norman is deep blue; Biden won downtown Norman by 56 points and the area just west of there around Norman High by 54 points. But there are a ton of precincts around Moore where Trump won by 30 points and small rural precincts around Stella and Lake Thunderbird that voted for Trump even more than that. So overall Cleveland County averages out as conservative, even though it contains a really dense, deep cluster of liberalism. It is still a lot less conservative than the more outlying counties like McClain, however.

Oklahoma's county lines happen to fall in such a way that they fail to capture cultural differences in the way they do elsewhere. You look at the Kansas side of metro Kansas City, for instance, and you have one county (Wyandotte) that contains the inner city, one (Johnson) that contains the upper-middle-class commuter suburbs, and one (Douglas) that has the college town in it. So you get two blue counties and one red one. Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, the liberal college town and the inner city share their counties with rural areas and suburbia, so they are both red counties. You have to look at precinct-level maps to get a feel for where the liberal parts of Oklahoma really are.

[jerrywall]

Don't know, but it probably has more to to with the students and when they were getting shots. Heck, most college kids think they are invincible.

I don't know... I assumed Payne county is as high as they are because of OSU. Otherwise I'd expect them to look like Logan county.

[Pete]

This has a lot to do with what else is in Cleveland County besides just Norman.

The same applies to the reason the county has low vaccination rates, which is what we are discussing.

[BG918]

With the way the tribes rolled out the vaccines early this year I’m surprised the percentages are not higher in Indian Country especially eastern and south-central Oklahoma.

[Bunty]

This has a lot to do with what else is in Cleveland County besides just Norman. Norman is deep blue; Biden won downtown Norman by 56 points and the area just west of there around Norman High by 54 points. But there are a ton of precincts around Moore where Trump won by 30 points and small rural precincts around Stella and Lake Thunderbird that voted for Trump even more than that. So overall Cleveland County averages out as conservative, even though it contains a really dense, deep cluster of liberalism. It is still a lot less conservative than the more outlying counties like McClain, however.

Sounds like Stillwater and Payne County.

[Scott5114]

The same applies to the reason the county has low vaccination rates, which is what we are discussing.

Indeed—just wanted to provide some additional context

[Jersey Boss]

I am curious to see how that flies locally. Certain state governors have not been shy about meddling with the vaccine plans that private companies make.

A group of Houston hospital workers lost a lawsuit in Federal Court when they sued over their employer mandating vaccination as a condition of employment.

[FighttheGoodFight]

A group of Houston hospital workers lost a lawsuit in Federal Court when they sued over their employer mandating vaccination as a condition of employment.

Yes and I believe SSM quoted this as the reason for going ahead with it. They felt it would be upheld.

[David]

In court, sure. I was thinking more along the lines of: Cruise Lines Wrestle With Florida Ban on Vaccine Passports

Of course, a hospital requiring employee vaccination is not quite the same story as cruise lines requiring passenger vaccination, but given the illogic of the latter I could easily see someone trying to mess with the former. On the other hand it is perhaps notable that the state of Texas has (as far as I am aware) stayed out of that Houston hospital situation.

[Jersey Boss]

So what was your point in wondering how SSM requiring employee vacinations would fly locally? I don't see a connection with cruise ship customets.

[David]

So what was your point in wondering how SSM requiring employee vacinations would fly locally? I don't see a connection with cruise ship customets.

I'm wondering if Stitt will try and interfere.