Oklahoma reports 465 new COVID-19 cases; total provisional death count rises by one – KOCO Oklahoma City

FOR EVERYONE INSIDE SCHOOLS THAT RECOMMENATION HANDED DOWN BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS TODAY AS CASES KEEP RISING. GOOD EVENING. I’’ EVAN ONSTOT. I’M JESSICA SCHAMCHBA STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS REPORTING 2,126 NEW CASES SINCE FRIDAY 557 OF THOSE WITHIN THE LAST 24 HOURS AN OFFICIALSRE A WATCHING CASES AND HOSPITALIZATIONS CLOLYSE AND THAT INCLUDES KIDS 29 OKLAHOMA’S UNDER THE AGE OF 18 IN THE HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF COVID-19 TODAY. I SPOKE WITH THE STATE EPIDEMIOLOGIST ABOUT WHY THAT IS AND WHAT IT MEANASS WE HEAD TOWARDS SCHOOL YEAR WE’RE STILL LEARNING ABOUT THE NEW VARIANT AND WE’RE STILL LEARNING ABOUT THIS SEVERITY OF THE NEW VARIANT ON DIFFERENT INDIVIDLSUA INCLUDING DIFFERENT AGES PECLUDING DIFFERENT AGES DIATRIC HOSPITALIZATIONS HIGHLIGHTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT’S LATEST COVID-19 REPORT 29 KIDS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 BEING TREATED IN THE HOSPITAL. CORONAVIRUS BUT STATE EPIDEMIOLOGISTS JULIANNE ONSTE SAYS THE NUMBER OF PEDIATRIC HOSPITALIZATIONS IS NOT NECESSARILY ON THE RISE, AND WE’V’ ALWAYS SEEN SOME PEDIATRIC HOSPITALIZATIONS. AND BUT NOW WHAT WE’RE DOINGS I WE’RE SHEDDING LIGHT THAT YOU KNOW, THESE INDIVIDUALS AREN’T IMMUNIZED AND THIS DISEASE IS GOING THROUGH THE UNIMIZED POPULATION THE DIFFERENCE. SHE SAYS, IS THAT YOUNG? WILL REMNAI OVERWHELMINGLY UNVACCINATED WHILE THE MAJORITY OF OKLAHOMA SENRSIO HAVE GOTTEN THE SHOT THE PERCENTAGE OF HOSPITALIZATION. SHE SAYS IS SHIFTGIN WITH BIG JUMPS FOR TEENAGERS AS WELL AS PEOPLE IN THEIR 20S AND 30S THIS PAST WEEK THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS REPORTED THAT 25% OF ALL NEW COVID-19 CASES ARE HAPPENING INHI CLDREN. SO I’M RELATIVELY YOU KNOW, I’M JUST NOT SURPRISED THAT WE’RE SEEING IN AN INCREASING NUMBER OF KIDS IN OKLAHOMA THAT ARE ALSO HAVING THE INFECTION AND OF COURSE THE MEOR PEOPLE YOU HAVE GETTING INFECTED THE MORE PEOPLE YOU’RE GOING TO SEE IN THE HOSPITAL DR. DALE BRATZLER AT OU HEALTH SAYS, HE BELIEVES MOST OF THE NEW CASES AND YOUNG HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE COMING OUT OF EASTERN, OKLAHOMA. OMA,UT B HE SAYS IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME UNTIL CENTRAL OKLAHOMAS I HIT BY THE SURGE. WELL, I THINK IT SHOULD BE ALARMING BRATZLER AND STONE BOTH STILL SAY CHILDREN ARE FAR LESS LIKELY TO GET SERIOUSLY SICK FROM COVID-19, BUT THEYRE A ALSO URGING PARENTS TO VACCINATE THEIR KIDS OVER THE AGE O12F NOW. IT’S A GOOD VACCINE. IT PROTECTS INDIVIDUALS. IT KEEPS PEOPLEUT O OF THE HOSPITAL IT PREVENTS DEATHS. AND WE MENTIONED THE AMERINCA ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS NEW GUIDANCE CALLING ON SCHOOLS TO REQUIRE MASKS IN CLASS FOR ALL STUDENT. OKLAHOMA HAS A NEW LAW PREV