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The data is the first indicator case numbers could be going up. Since last fall, OU researchers have been testing the sewer water in many municipalities and the University of Oklahoma for COVID particles. “We’ve got this two-week lead time before the county health departments are aware of an outbreak occurring,” said Halley Reeves, VP of Community Health Impact at OU Health. The concentration levels detected went down in the metro in January and stayed that way until the past couple of weeks. “We’ve noticed in areas, pockets, that numbers have gone back up. That’s cause for concer...

4:42 “Our particular congregation has been impacted by COVID,” he said. “We could look at these five deaths that have occurred over the last year attributed to COVID. We even had two mysterious deaths that occurred before they started counting.” Terrell and his wife, Beverly, went to one of the local vaccination clinics that Oklahoma-City County Health Department sponsored. This one took place in late March at Star Spencer High School, in northeast Oklahoma City, a historically Black community. The department worked with more than a dozen churches in the area to coordinate sign ups in...

For Voice of Hope pastor Terrell McCoy, the fight against the coronavirus is personal. “Our particular congregation has been impacted by COVID,” he said. “We could look at these five deaths that have occurred over the last year attributed to COVID. We even had two mysterious deaths that occurred before they started counting.” Terrell and his wife, Beverly, went to one of the local vaccination clinics that Oklahoma-City County Health Department sponsored. This one took place in late March at Star Spencer High School, in northeast Oklahoma City, a historically Black community. The depar...

Oklahoma COVID wastewater testing shows increase in disease presence COVID wastewater testing in Tulsa and last updated 2021-04-06 12:46:05-04 TULSA, Okla. — Murky, smelly wastewater is what Oklahoma researchers are using to test for COVID. A team is taking the unique approach at the University of Oklahoma. Wastewater testing allows the OU team to gather COVID data one week earlier than human testing. “We excrete COVID through going to the toilet. So, it’s discharged into the toilet and then it’s found in the sewage system," said Halley Reeves, vice president of Community...