Healthier Oklahoma Coalition
Health care and public health experts predict the disease caused by the novel coronavirus may end up being a cause of death for Oklahomans long after whatever marks the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic. There s a lot of people who didn t die who have a lot of chronic health conditions that are going to be going on forever, said Dr. David Chansolme, medical director of infection prevention at INTEGRIS Health, at a Tuesday virtual press briefing held by the Healthier Oklahoma Coalition. People with pulmonary fibrosis, people that might have had a heart attack, people that had a stroke that could lead to further things, too, Chansolme said. It ll be interesting to see how those are read out, because they may not have had these problems had they not been six weeks in an ICU with COVID. So it ll continue to be a challenge.
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Livestream / Broken Arrow City Council
The city of Broken Arrow is declining to condemn a video presentation given during public comment at their Tuesday council meeting which linked the wearing of masks to prevent COVID-19 with the Holocaust.
Resident Lori Gracey s presentation included images of Holocaust victim Anne Frank and black-and-white photographs of the corpses of Nazi concentration camp victims, among others. Gracey equated the wearing of a face mask to the forced wearing of yellow stars by German Jews. [T]o deny someone their right to express an opinion or the information they chose to share on an important public matter would be inappropriate, Broken Arrow City Manager Michael Spurgeon said in a statement. Notwithstanding, I will also note that any comments made by the public or information shared at a meeting does not represent the views or opinions of the governing body.