Tulsa's health department head said the city, site of Trump's rally Saturday, is seeing 'a significant increase in our case trends.'
89 new cases since Sunday — its largest single-day figure since the state’s first COVID-19 case on March 6.
Cases have been trending sharply upward since a week ago. Tulsa County’s seven-day rolling average for COVID-19 cases has risen fromA concerned Dr. Bruce Dart, director of Tulsa’s health department, told the Tulsa World newspaper Friday that the city is experiencing a “COVID-19 “is here in Tulsa, it is transmitting very efficiently,” he warned. “I wish we could postpone this [rally] to a time when the virus isn’t as large a concern as it is today.
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