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On Monday, Mathe Oklahoma State Department of Health announced it would discontinue its daily situation updates that monitor the COVID daily case counts. OSDH makes changes to COVID data reporting Official state data on COVID-19 can be found here and the latest KOSU and NPR reporting on the pandemic can be found here.Ĭoronavirus updates: last report March 7, 2022: We will also continue to report on the pandemic beyond just the numbers. KOSU will continue to monitor case counts, hospital reports, death counts and immunization reports and report on them when necessary. The new weekly report is also not representative of the past seven days, rather the previous Sunday-Saturday week.įor the past two years, KOSU has been covering daily case and death counts and a non-stop barrage of COVID-related news. Previously, the seven-day average included delayed case counts. This new weekly report also shows a change in how OSDH reports case counts, opting to only include spicements collected and reported in the week's time period in calculating the seven-day average. Instead, the agency will release data on Thursdays. The goal here is to more accurately track the amount of severe COVID-19 disease within the community and strain on the healthcare system.Ī change in reporting from the Oklahoma State Department of HealthĮarlier this week, OSDH pointed to the CDC guidance in announcing it would discontinue its daily situation updates that monitor the COVID daily case counts.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced new COVID metrics.The agency's guidance focuses on COVID-19 community levels, which are determined by the number of the new admissions and inpatient beds occupied metrics, based on the current level of new cases per 100,000 population in the past seven days. Now, two years to the day, KOSU has decided to sunset this COVID updates liveblog. On March 10, 2020, the cancellation of the Oklahoma City Thunder and Utah Jazz basketball game signaled the start of the coronavirus pandemic for many folks.