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struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 09:47 PM Jul 2020

Tulsa sees surge

By Kay Jones and Brian Ries, CNN
Updated 5:34 PM ET, Wed July 8, 2020

The city of Tulsa is experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases ...

Dr. Bruce Dart, Executive Director of the Tulsa Health Department, said in a press conference on Wednesday there are high numbers being reported this week, with nearly 500 new cases in two days and trends are showing that those numbers will increase ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/us/tulsa-covid-trump-rally-contact-tracers-trnd/index.html

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Tulsa sees surge (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2020 OP
Rally Likely Fueled Cases, Tulsa Official Says struggle4progress Jul 2020 #1
Bookmarked. SouthernCal_Dem Jul 2020 #4
Who could have predicted this? RockRaven Jul 2020 #2
How many days after trump came to infect the area? erronis Jul 2020 #3
I wonder if Oklahoma's "leaders" will ever start listening to their experts. Beartracks Jul 2020 #5
We'll have to check South Dakota's surge around July15th. Budi Jul 2020 #6

struggle4progress

(118,041 posts)
1. Rally Likely Fueled Cases, Tulsa Official Says
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 09:49 PM
Jul 2020

By Paul Stinson and Jordan Fabian
July 8, 2020, 5:33 PM EDT

The top health official in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said that President Donald Trump’s June 20 campaign rally and accompanying protests likely boosted the number of coronavirus infections in the area ...

Trump held the rally despite pleas from local authorities to delay because they were already seeing a rise in Covid-19 cases. An estimated 6,200 people came to the city’s 19,000-seat BOK Center, many without masks.

Tulsa County accounts for 4,571 of Oklahoma’s 17,893 Covid-19 cases, or about 26%, according to county and state data. The county reported 261 and 206 cases for Monday and Tuesday, eclipsing Tuesday’s seven-day rolling average of 146.7 ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/us/tulsa-covid-trump-rally-contact-tracers-trnd/index.html

erronis

(14,955 posts)
3. How many days after trump came to infect the area?
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 09:51 PM
Jul 2020

Covid Dotard. Typhoid Mary.

Please visit a bunch more red states and encourage your deplorables to gather closely together.

Please take a vacation to the Kremlin and embrace your other lover. Moistly. And stay there.

Beartracks

(12,761 posts)
5. I wonder if Oklahoma's "leaders" will ever start listening to their experts.
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 09:58 PM
Jul 2020

Couldn't Mayor Bynum have said "no large events here" ?

Gov Stitt just thinks dead Okies are acceptable collateral damage, but I would've expected better from the Mayor. It's not like their curve was ever flat, no matter what Pence said.

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