After the Oklahoma State Department of Health stopped reporting daily COVID-19 numbers, local leaders are making efforts to restore more regular data sharing amid looming mask mandate end dates and rising cases elsewhere.Â
Norman Mayor Breea Clark was alerted to the change during a regular Emergency Management meeting and first voiced her concerns publicly in a Facebook post.
âHow can Governor Kevin Stitt stand by and permit life-saving data to be withheld during a pandemic? Where is the transparency? We can t hide or deny our way out of this pandemic,â Clark wrote in the post. âWithout this data, we have no idea if, when, or where outbreaks are happening in our community, and we just finally got down to manageable numbers that would allow us to reinstate effective contact tracing! This dangerous lack of information communicates to people that there s nothing to see here, and that things are back to normal. They are not.â
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