TONIGHT. DILL:ON YOU WILL REMEMBER IN PREVIOUS HOSPITALIZATION WAVES, HOSPITALS BUILDS PRETTY QUICKLY WITH COVID PATIENTS. HEALTH OFFICIALS DON’T EXPECT AS BIG OF A SURGE THIS TIME BECAUSE OF THE VACCIS.NE ALTHOUGH, THEY DO EXPECT SOME INCREASE AS THE DELTA VARIANT SPREADS IN UNVACCINATED COMMUNITIES. >> I HAVE BEEN CONCERNED. WE HAVE SEEN MORE THAN A DOUBLING OF PEOPLE IN THE HOSPIT WALITH COVID-19 IN THE PAST 10 DAYS OR SO. DILLON: O.U. CHIEF COVID OFFICER DO CTOR DALE BRATZLER SAYS THE NEW COVID PATIENTS ARE YOUNGER AND MOSTLY UNVACCINAD.TE IN FACT, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT NOW SAYS THAT OF THE 1.5IL MON OKLAHOMANS WHO HAVE BEEN FULLY VACCINATED, ONLY 107 HAVE BEEN HOSPITALIZED. THAT WORKS OUT TO .007% AND UNDERSCORES HOW POWERFUL THE SHOTS ARE, EVEN IN THE FEW CASES WERE VACCINATED PEOPLE TESTED POSITIVE. THEY RARELY GET VERY SICK, BUT HETHAL OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO REACH OUT TO THE ROUGHLY HALF OF THE STATE THAT HASN’T GOTTEN THE SHOT WITH THE MESSAGE THAT NOW’S THE TIME. >> GIVEN 369 MILLION DOSESN I THE UNITED STATES ALONE, THESE VACCINES ARE INCREDIBLY SAFE. SOME OF THE SAFEST WE’VE EVER HAD AND VERY EFFECTIVE ALSO. DILLON: IN OKLA
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Choctaw Nation reinstates masks mandate at well being amenities
Up to date: 2:30 PM CDT Jul 17, 2023
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has reinstated a masks requirement for guests at tribal well being amenities.Choctaw Nation Well being Providers Authority introduced on Fb Friday that every one guests should put on a masks and positioned limits the variety of guests a affected person is allowed.“As a result of growing variety of constructive COVID-19 circumstances in … Oklahoma, it has turn out to be essential to reinstate a few of the earlier customer restrictions to make sure the security of our sufferers and employees,” in accordance with the assertion.A spokesperson for the tribe didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon Saturday.The seven-day rolling common of latest circumstances in Oklahoma elevated from 224.7 per day on July 1 to 560.7 on Thursday, in accordance with knowledge from Johns Hopkins College, rating Oklahoma ninth within the nation with 155.3 new circumstances per 100,000 residents. State well being officers have pleaded for Oklahomans to turn out to be vaccinated and stated circumstances as a result of extremely contagious delta variant are seemingly shifting into Oklahoma from Arkansas and Missouri, which rank first and second within the nation in new circumstances per capita.The Federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention reviews 46% of the state’s inhabitants has acquired a minimum of one vaccine dose and 39.4% are absolutely vaccinated.Associated Video Above: Variety of absolutely vaccinated Oklahomans who’ve been hospitalized due to breakthrough COVID-19 is tiny, well being officers say
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma has reinstated a masks requirement for guests at tribal well being amenities.
Choctaw Nation Well being Providers Authority announced on Facebook Friday that every one guests should put on a masks and positioned limits the variety of guests a affected person is allowed.
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“As a result of growing variety of constructive COVID-19 circumstances in … Oklahoma, it has turn out to be essential to reinstate a few of the earlier customer restrictions to make sure the security of our sufferers and employees,” in accordance with the assertion.
A spokesperson for the tribe didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon Saturday.
The seven-day rolling common of latest circumstances in Oklahoma elevated from 224.7 per day on July 1 to 560.7 on Thursday, in accordance with knowledge from Johns Hopkins College, rating Oklahoma ninth within the nation with 155.3 new circumstances per 100,000 residents.
State well being officers have pleaded for Oklahomans to turn out to be vaccinated and stated circumstances as a result of extremely contagious delta variant are seemingly shifting into Oklahoma from Arkansas and Missouri, which rank first and second within the nation in new circumstances per capita.
The Federal Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention reviews 46% of the state’s inhabitants has acquired a minimum of one vaccine dose and 39.4% are absolutely vaccinated.
Associated Video Above: Variety of absolutely vaccinated Oklahomans who’ve been hospitalized due to breakthrough COVID-19 is tiny, well being officers say
