OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – State well being officers held a press convention discussing COVID-19, variants and vaccinations.
They stress one of the best ways to guard your self from the virus and variants is to get vaccinated.
“We would like folks to get out and luxuriate in their lives, get pleasure from their freedom. Vaccination is your ticket,” State Well being Commissioner Dr. Lance Frye mentioned.
They are saying there’s been a uptick in instances, and whereas it is small in comparison with final 12 months, it is nonetheless a rise, and extra instances are anticipated to return due to the previous vacation weekend.
Whereas the State Well being Division is in common communication with the governor, there hasn’t been any dialogue about one other emergency declaration.
Frye says it is comprehensible that individuals are uninterested in the pandemic, however folks nonetheless should do their half.
“I believe that we’re not alone in the truth that everybody has COVID fatigue. It should be actually tough to get folks to need to do any kind of mitigation sooner or later, however all of us simply should do what we will do to attempt to do the fitting factor and hold everybody secure and different folks round us secure,” he mentioned.
The Well being Division additionally says there’s been dialogue about potential vaccine incentives. A lottery did not get authorized, however they’re wanting into different areas.
The CDC got here out with a report on a COVID outbreak at an unidentified gymnasium in Oklahoma again in April and Might. There have been 47 instances and most of them had been in unvaccinated folks.
State Epidemiologist Jolianne Stone says they work with amenities that may have outbreaks by serving to with testing or vaccinations.
“All these clusters and outbreaks are being tracked by way of the Well being Division. We’re preserving a really shut eye on them. We do report these clusters up each week to management and to the governor’s workplace, so we hold a pulse on what we is perhaps seeing in sure areas,” she mentioned.
With Pfizer and Moderna making use of for full FDA approval, not simply emergency use, well being leaders hope extra folks shall be motivated to get vaccinated.
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