The U.S. is entering the second month of the biggest vaccination effort in history with a major expansion of the campaign, opening football stadiums, major league ballparks, fairgrounds and convention centers to inoculate a larger and more diverse pool of people.
After a frustratingly slow rollout involving primarily health care workers and nursing home residents, states are moving on to the next phase before the first one is complete, making shots available to such groups as senior citizens, teachers, bus drivers, police officers, firefighters and people with underlying medical conditions.
As of Monday morning, about 6.7 million Americans had received their first shot of the vaccine, or just 2% of the U.S. population. Experts say as much as 85% of the population will have to be inoculated to achieve “herd immunity” and vanquish the outbreak.
Many states are responding by throwing open the line to others and ramping up the pace of vaccinations.
As of January 12, there were 337,457 confirmed cases of the Covid-19 virus in the state, up by 2,210 in the last 24 hours according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. There were 29 deaths reported in the last day. This brings the death toll to 2,804.
In Blaine County, according to emergency management officials, there are 89 active cases.
There are 16 cases in Canton; 5 cases in Geary; 9 cases in Longdale; 16 cases in Okeene, 1 in Hitchcock and 38 in Watonga. The cases are noted by zip code, so those ill may not live inside the city limits, just in the vicinity
Ṫhere are 22,613,784 cases cumulative reported nationally, up 204,652 since the last numbers were released by Johns Hopkins University. There have been 376,060 deaths in the United States, up 1,731 since last report.