Cautiously, big institutions begin to open up By: Janice Francis-Smith The Journal Record May 4, 2021
The Oklahoma City Dodgers announced Tuesday that the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark will now open the 2021 baseball season at 50% capacity. (Photo by Janice Francis-Smith)
OKLAHOMA CITY – Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Executive Order 2021-11 on Monday, officially ending the COVID-19 state of emergency in Oklahoma effective Tuesday, May 4.
But the pandemic is not quite over for many businesses and government entities grappling with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and consumer confidence.
“We were the first state to reopen our economy on June 1, and we are continuing to lead the nation now,” Stitt said in a video message his office shared to YouTube on Monday, a post with comments disabled. “More people are getting the vaccine every day, our kids are safely back in school, our businesses are open and thriving and our unemployment rate is bet
By: Anjelicia Bruton
OKLAHOMA CITY -
The Oklahoma City-County Health Department said it wants to make sure everyone has access to COVID-19 vaccines, even if it means bringing the shot to you.
OCCHD parked its mobile vaccine at Sunday’s Cinco De Mayo Festival at Scissortail Park. Inside the van were 200 COVID-19 vaccines ready to be administered.
“We ve already vaccinated about a dozen or so individuals today,” OCCHD spokesperson L’Toya Knighten said. “Many of them are from the Spanish-speaking community, but also all demographics are represented here today down at Scissortail Park.”
The department had the Johnson & Johnson along with the Pfizer vaccines on hand. Its mission with the mobile vaccination van is to provide a quick and easy process.
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Show Transcript First stood at this podium one year, one month and 15 days ago, I explained that in the face of a global pandemic, swiftly killing thousands of people in cities around the world and in the absence of a vaccine or a cure, we would have no choice but to utilize the same tactics humans had employed a century ago and on many occasions before that, keep our distance from each other. Don t gather, wash our hands and eventually wear a mask. So to minimize how much, we literally spit the virus on each other As you well know. four months and 16 days ago, a vaccine for COVID-19 arrived in Oklahoma City. Since that day, hundreds of thousands of our metro residents have received it. As a direct result, new daily cases have declined 90 from th
Hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans are now vaccinated against COVID-19, but health experts say those numbers need to continue to climb.And there s a specific group that officials are looking at, young people. We really need those individuals who are 18 to 35, 18 to 40 even, to understand the importance of getting the vaccine, said LToya Knighten, chief of government affairs for the Oklahoma City-County Health Department. But we also need that younger age demographic to understand that our hospitalizations right now, while they are flat and flatter than they have been here in the past six to nine months. While that group hasn t been as harshly affected as the older population in the past, that may change. The folks that we are seeing in the hospitals now are trending much younger than the population that made up the majority of hospitalizations this time last year in April 2020, Knighten said.So, COVID-19 vaccinations might come to you by way of a local event. In fact, the O