As COVID-19 cases rise in Tulsa County, the Tulsa Health Department is expanding opportunities for testing.
The Health Department said it’s going to set up its own testing center sometime next week.
On Wednesday, Tulsa Health Department Director Dr. Bruce Dart met with the city council to provide an update on the delta variant and rising case numbers in Oklahoma.
Dart said the health department ran their own drive thru testing site for most of the pandemic but stopped when vaccinations picked up and testing demand decreased.
The department still runs testing through Access Medical at seven different locations, but this new testing center will now give more access to Oklahomans who need it.
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Oklahoma County and Tulsa County will soon be home to large-scale coronavirus vaccine sites known as mega-PODs.
The Oklahoma City-County Health Department and Tulsa Health Department announced separately Thursday they are working with The White House to create mass vaccination sites in the state s two most populous counties. Officials have been calling their vaccine clinics PODs, or points of dispensing sites.
Dr. Patrick McGough, OCCHD s executive director, said the partnership will create what is known as a mega-POD. This POD in partnership with the state of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma State Department of Health and the National Guard will have the capacity to vaccinate up to 6,000 individuals per day in [Oklahoma] County. And this will be for six to seven days a week, said McGough.