{"id":34429,"date":"2022-01-03T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T18:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=34429"},"modified":"2022-01-03T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T18:30:01","slug":"oklahoma-health-officials-report-a-post-holiday-surge-in-covid-19-cases-and-hospitalizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2022\/01\/03\/oklahoma-health-officials-report-a-post-holiday-surge-in-covid-19-cases-and-hospitalizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma health officials report a post-holiday surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning, The State Department of Health announced nearly 8,000 new coronavirus cases reported over the weekend.<\/p><p>There are a few reasons to take the figure with a grain of salt. It can take a few days for labs to report positive cases to the department, so many of those tests likely took place before this weekend. Also, that number could be artificially low. Oklahoma hasn\u2019t established a system for reporting at-home test results, and many rapid tests at clinics aren\u2019t reported either.<\/p><p>The department also reported 900 COVID-19 hospitalizations on Monday. Although that figure has grown considerably in the past few weeks, it is only a fraction of the hospitalizations reported this time last year. On Jan. 4, 2021 \u2014 the first Monday of last January \u2014 Oklahoma reported 1,909 COVID-19 hospitalizations.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning, The State Department of Health announced nearly 8,000 new coronavirus cases reported over the weekend.There are a few reasons to take the figure with a grain of salt. It can take a few days for labs to report positive cases to the department, so many of those tests likely took place before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":34430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34431,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34429\/revisions\/34431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}