COVID-19 fatalities increase with new data | COVID-19

Another eight Stillwater deaths and 17 Payne County deaths were COVID-19 this week after the Oklahoma Department of Health reported previously unpublished deaths due to “adjusted data.” Added to total.

According to OSDH, during regular quality assurance checks, a technical error was discovered while onboarding a particular lab into a new electronic lab reporting system.

Oklahoma received a total of 1,764 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday. This includes 1,300 cases and 1,716 virus-related deaths.

“As part of our efforts to move COVID-19 case reports from the PHIDDO system to a more stable platform, OSDH has been working to move the lab to a new electronic lab reporting system,” according to an OSDH press release. “Similar to migrating to a new system, we anticipate occasional technical errors. Our in-house team performs regular quality assurance checks to catch and fix these errors in a timely manner. And confirm that it has.”

Of the additional 1,300 cases, 271 were in December, 448 were in January, 296 were in February, and 133 were in March.

According to the press release, the death is not related to the PHIDDO system and does not reflect the death at this time, but it is related to the previous discrepancy in death reported between OSDH and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ..

The provisional death certificate-based CDC / NCHS death certificate increased 28 from Tuesday, bringing the total number of deaths in Oklahoma to 7,994 due to or due to the coronavirus.

Interim mortality is the number of major reports of OSDH. OSDH released a weekly number on Wednesday that OSDH Acute Disease Services will report to the CDC. According to ADS, 6,669 deaths have been confirmed in Oklahoma, an increase of 1,716 from last week.

According to the OSDH Situation Update, the state received 1,764 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, for a total of 441,906 cases.

On its website, OSDH shows a total of 440,142 cases from Tuesday’s CDC provisional status data and a total of 440,023 cases, including a summary of the OSDH disease survey. Of the latter numbers, 9,952 were active, down 588 last week and recovering 423,402, including 1,042 last week.

Of the cumulative total number of hospitalizations in the state, 204 are currently in the hospital and 53 are in the ICU, according to an OSDH executive report released Wednesday afternoon.

This week, 10 of the 77 counties in Oklahoma have a medium or “orange” risk level, 57 have a low or “yellow” risk level, and 10 have a new normal or “green” risk level. .. COVID-19 risk level system.

Last week there were 10 counties at medium risk level, 60 counties at low risk level and 7 counties at new normal risk level.

The 10 “green” counties are Alfalfa, Choctaw, Coal, Dewey, Ells, Grant, Latimer, Nowata, Okwski and Texas.

According to OSDH’s weekly epidemiological report released every Wednesday, cases of COVID-19 decreased last week, but according to the report, deaths do not apply due to deaths that occurred by April 2020. did.

From March 28th to April 3rd, 2,170 cases were reported, a decrease of 232 cases from March 21st to 27th of the previous week. The death toll was 1,716 OSDH reported Wednesday.

OSDH reported that 34% of cases were people over the age of 50 and 96% of deaths were in the same age group.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 patients increased from 5.7% last week to 5.8% across the state on a weekly basis. According to the report, 25,320 people have been admitted to state hospitals since the first case was confirmed in Oklahoma in March 2020. According to OSDH, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 hospitalization from March 28 to April 3 was 213, a decrease of 2 from the previous week.