Now that we've made it through the fall-winter surge, and Oklahomans are receiving vaccinations at a decent clip, there appears to be an end in sight – albeit a blurry one – to the pandemic-as-we-know-it.
As a result, the Kevin Stitt administration has figured this would probably be a good time to admit the state's reporting for COVID-19 deaths was off by about 2,500 people or so. No big deal, right?
Here are some details via a Forman / Branham report in The Oklahoman_:
The Oklahoma State Department of Health for months presented the public with a COVID-19 death toll that had fallen far out of date.
Noting that its count was no longer timely, the agency announced last week that it would begin to present the death toll that is used by the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center for Health Statistics, which shows roughly 2,500 more Oklahomans have died from COVID-19 than the state had reported.
Until then, the state reported a death toll that lagged far behind the CDC’s provisional death count.