Mar 4, 2021 Cleveland County Health Department employees bag up test kits April 9 at a COVID-19 mobile testing site at Griffin Community Park. Kyle Phillips / The Transcript The Oklahoma State Department of Health has begun reporting what they call âprovisional COVID-19 deathsâ to more closely align with the CDCâs death toll for the state â because of this change officials say the local death counts will only be updated once a week, tentatively on Tuesdays. Oklahoma State Epidemiologist Dr. Jared Taylor said that the new way the state will report COVID-19 deaths will be the total for the entire state, though they will continue to conduct an Acute Disease Service epidemiological investigation and will report those findings â which includes the local death count â once a week.