Tulsa World: The Oklahoma State Department of Health on Tuesday said it is working to shift from statewide to regional hospital data to inform its weekly COVID-19 alert system.
Public health experts have called Gov. Kevin Stitt’s alert system unhelpful because it lacks granular hospital data. Coronavirus hospitalizations by county or region would be a more useful tool to evaluate county risks — as the alert system purports to do — rather than relying on statewide numbers that can’t pinpoint local trends.
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