Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[sooner88]

Which testing sites are free? Are there any that take walk-ins? My gf's work has asked her to get tested asap as they've had a potential spread, but she's having difficulty finding one on short notice.

[Timshel]

You may try Mercy. Things may have changed but when I went to get my antibody test I could have just as easily gotten the Covid test. However, Mercy is doing all of the Covid tests out of one central location somewhere up north while you can get the antibody test at their urgent cares, etc.

[kukblue1]

https://www.koco.com/article/rossen-...ores/32960891# Your doing fine Oklahoma ok. Since we are changing things maybe we need to change our state song? SMH Also what winco is this one?

[T. Jamison]

https://www.koco.com/article/rossen-...ores/32960891# Your doing fine Oklahoma ok. Since we are changing things maybe we need to change our state song? SMH Also what winco is this one?

39th and Portland.

[Pete]

Texas governor has closed all bars and placed other restrictions due to the recent spike in cases:

[PoliSciGuy]

Texas governor has closed all bars and placed other restrictions due to the recent spike in cases:

Hopefully this provides cover for other states to do the same, and gives Stitt room to walk things back before we get Texas-level bad

[FighttheGoodFight]

First state to go back a step. I am guessing we might see more of that. I am curious to know if they know this comes from bars due to contact tracing?

[jccouger]

Hopefully this provides cover for other states to do the same, and gives Stitt room to walk things back before we get Texas-level bad

I'd be willing to bet Stitt invites Texans to come party at our bars before he closes ours down.

[Pete]

Remember when plenty of people were saying the heat and sunlight would kill off the virus?

Here we are in summer, and new records are being set with every passing day.

[jccouger]

Remember when plenty of people were saying the heat and sunlight would kill off the virus?

Here we are in summer, and new records are being set with every passing day.

And in the south as well, where temps are much higher than the north. Guess it is not the flu.

[Bill Robertson]

Hospitalization situation looking far worse than we are being led to believe:

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The hospitalizations are one thing. The thing that sticks out more than that is the 17,000 test increase in pending test results in one day. If that’s accurate there will be huge numbers of new cases in the next few days.

[FighttheGoodFight]

The hospitalizations are one thing. The thing that sticks out more than that is the 17,000 test increase in pending test results in one day. If that’s accurate there will be huge numbers of new cases in the next few days.

You should have seen the drive thru line for testing in Norman. 2+ hours to get tested.

[jccouger]

The hospitalizations are one thing. The thing that sticks out more than that is the 17,000 test increase in pending test results in one day. If that’s accurate there will be huge numbers of new cases in the next few days.

I wonder if that is from contact tracing. Since our positives have gone up, the people who tested positive probably notified friends/family/coworkers they were in contact with.

Hopefully that many going to get tested isn't a result of feeling symptoms.

[Bill Robertson]

I wonder if that is from contact tracing. Since our positives have gone up, the people who tested positive probably notified friends/family/coworkers they were in contact with.

Hopefully that many going to get tested isn't a result of feeling symptoms.

Hopefully that is the case. They could still catch a bunch of asymptomatic people which could be a good thing.

[PoliSciGuy]

So this is interesting. OK's cases have definitely increased, but we are the only state whose increase in cases can be tied to an increase in tests. From https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1276292709225881601

Top 10 (last 2 weeks)
Cases Tests
FL. 71%. -12%
AZ. 72%. 25%
NV. 50%. -28%
OK. 53%. 125%
ID. 83%. 17%
SC. 169%. 43%
GA. 55%. 17%
UT. 39%. -10%
TX. 78%. 25%
KS. 48%. 7%

[jerrywall]

Is that accurate? I haven't seen anything that supports an increase in testing in Oklahoma. From what I've seen it's gone down since May.

[Pete]

From https://twitter.com/KassieMcClung:

[FighttheGoodFight]

I too am confused by that. It looks like we have been testing about the same amount for a month. From KOCODillon on Twitter yesterday.

[Pete]

Regardless of the number of tests, which is increasing but not drastically, we've gone from 2% positives to over 7% in just a few weeks.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Very true. Percent positive is an issue. Texas passing 10% is wild. I feel if we do nothing we will be there within a couple of weeks easily.

[Bill Robertson]

Is that accurate? I haven't seen anything that supports an increase in testing in Oklahoma. From what I've seen it's gone down since May.

I would say there’s something wrong here. The EORs for the past week and the Epidemiology Reports from the two weeks prior show testing going down a little for three weeks in a row.

[FighttheGoodFight]

Bars will now be closed in Florida after almost 9000 new cases yesterday.

[Pete]

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Effective immediately, the Department of Business and Professional Regulation is suspending on premises consumption of alcohol at bars statewide.

[kukblue1]

And in the south as well, where temps are much higher than the north. Guess it is not the flu.

The theory is people in the South are going indoors more because of the hot weather and going into the air conditioning while people up north are going outside more because it has warmed up

[Pete]

The theory is people in the South are going indoors more because of the hot weather and going into the air conditioning while people up north are going outside more because it has warmed up

Much higher percentage of church-goers in the south and churches have been singled out by health experts as being hotspots.