By: Brittany Toolis
OKLAHOMA CITY -
Good news for Oklahoma City Dodgers fans. They ll will be able to take their families out to the ballgame this season, but there will be some new safety protocols in place.
Required mask wearing and limited seating are some of the predicted changes. Even the way fans get into the ballpark will be different from previous seasons. If an individual walks up and buys a ticket for tonight s game right now, we would text it to them so by the time they walk to the gate, they re receiving it, said OKC Dodgers President and General Manager Michael Byrnes.
In an effort to “lead by example,” Gov. Kevin Stitt received his COVID-19 vaccine – the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine – in front of a group of reporters gathered at a press conference held at the Oklahoma Capitol. Stitt said Oklahoma is one of the first states to reach the point of making all residents age 16 and older eligible, closing in on 2 million doses of vaccine administered since the rollout began three and a half months ago. State and county health departments administered 85% of those vaccines, 11% came from tribal partners and the rest through federal partners, Stitt said.
Oklahoma is doing a phenomenal job of getting the COVID-19 vaccine into people’s arms, but fallout from the disease will remain long after the pandemic ends, health experts said March 26 in a JR/Now webinar. All Oklahomans 16 or older are eligible to receive the vaccine beginning, as of March 29. As of March 26, nearly 1.5 million doses of vaccine had been given statewide and more than 32
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Alabama
Birmingham: A year into the coronavirus pandemic, the creator of a popular website for tracking COVID-19 in the state is pondering what will become of his creation once the health care crisis eases. David Marconnet told WBHM he sees two options for his Bama Tracker site, which has been visited by at least 1.5 million people so far and presents publicly available data about the virus in easily accessible, understandable charts and graphs. Bama Tracker could remain online as an archive for researchers or anyone who wants to look through pandemic data, said Marconnet, or it could adapt to track other data that Alabamians find interesting. “I’ve been playing with some ideas there, and I’ve had some struggles figuring out what people would care about,” Marconnet said. “I don’t have an answer there. We’ll just sort of see.” The software developer from Huntsville didn’t have any idea what his side project would become when
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