Oklahoma Dept. of Health switching how and when reporting COVID-19 data – KFOR Oklahoma City

Clarification: The original story has been updated to reflect a better understanding of changes being made by the state.

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) The Oklahoma State Department of Health is switching to reporting state COVID-19 data on a weekly rather than daily basis.

OSDH has released Oklahomas latest COVID-19 numbers, including new cases, deaths and hospitalizations, for the past year.

But now, OSDH officials will provide that data to Oklahomas COVID-19 dashboard on Wednesdays only.

OSDH released the following statement about the change:

A number of changes have been made, starting this week, to the states COVID-19 data dashboard. These changes are intended to better represent Oklahomas COVID-19 data to the public, said Joli Stone, Deputy State Epidemiologist. After a year of reporting daily numbers in many categories, with cases, deaths and hospitalizations all trending downward, and vaccination continuing to trend upward, we believe now is a good time to switch to weekly reporting. Data transparency has been and will continue to be important to OSDH, no matter the cadence of reporting.

OSDH is implementing the following changes:

Immunization data

CDC data

OSDH case investigation data

Other planned changes

KFOR will continue to provide the states COVID-19 data as it becomes available to us from OSDH.

Continued Coronavirus Coverage

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