OCCHD urges people to use Oklahoma Standard before signing up for COVID-19 vaccine Share Updated: 6:00 PM CST Feb 24, 2021 Share Updated: 6:00 PM CST Feb 24, 2021
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Show Transcript MIND. CHRISTINE: AS WE KNOW, THAT MEANS ACTING WITH HONOR. AND BECAUSE NO DOCUMENTATION IS REQUIRED TO SHOW COMORBIDITIES, OCCHD ASKS THAT YOU BE HONEST BEFORE SIGNING UP. IF YOU’RE A PERFECTLY HEALTHY YOUNG PERSON AND YOU’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING TO A CONCERT THIS SUMMER, YOU STILL NEED TO WAIT YOUR TURN. CHRISTINE: IT MAY BE TEMPTING FOR SOME, BUT RIGHT NOW OCCHD ASKS THAT YOU BOOK VACCINE APPOINTMENTS BASED ON MEDICAL NEED. WE JUST WANT PEOPLE TO BE HONEST. WE WANT THEM TO NOT TAKE AWAY THOSE APPOINTMENTS FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY DO HAVE THOSE COMORBIDITIES AND WHO ARE WAITING TO GET OUT OF THEIR HOUSE ONCE THEY GET VACCINATED. CHRISTINE RIGHT NOW THAT MEANS : ANYONE WHO IS 65 AND OLDER, ANY ADULT WITH SEVERE COMORBIDITIES OR WHO IS AT HIGH RISK
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By: Jordan Dafnis
Oklahoma City -
Monday is another milestone for COVID-19 vaccination plans as a new group of Oklahomans are now eligible to get the vaccine.
Kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers and Oklahomans of any age with serious health conditions are eligible to get their shots. This will impact hundreds of thousands of Oklahomans.
Those now eligible due to comorbidities includes anyone with hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic lung, liver, or renal disease, and cancers.
Oklahoma Deputy Health Commissioner, Keith Reed says the state is also going to be careful to keep open appointments for earlier groups such as people age 65 and older.