Experts with the Healthier Oklahoma Coalition on Tuesday discussed the fact that COVID-19 cases are still rising in Oklahoma as testing declines and as the Delta variant makes its way through the Sooner State."Statewide, we're sitting around 6.4% positivity, but, again, in the face of dramatically reduced testing," said Dr. David Kendrick, CEO of MyHealth Access Network and the department chair of medical informatics at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine.Officials with the Healthier Oklahoma Commission said they see an upward trend in COVID-19 cases in the last few weeks as testing declines."Those are days when we were testing thousands a day. Now, we're on the order of hundreds a day test results coming in, and so a higher percentage of those are positive," Kendrick said.Dr. Dale Bratzer, the chief COVID-19 officer with OU Health, said he's concerned about the Delta variant, which he said is more transmissible and dangerous, especially for those unvaccinated. He's also concerned about a new Delta-plus strain."It's even more contagious than the current Delta variant that we're dealing with," Bratzler said. "It binds to receptors and along very well, and it appears to be more resistant to antibody therapy."He said symptoms of the Delta variant are different from COVID-19's common symptoms of fever, cough and loss of taste and smell."The most common symptoms (are) headache followed by a sore throat, runny nose or fever," Bratzler said.Integris Health offered a program where an alternative medicine program and support groups are available for those suffering from the long-term effects of the virus."It's really working out the symptoms, helping them deal with the symptoms and understand what they can do themselves sometimes to help them get better," said Dr. Jeffrey Cruzan, president of Integris Medical Group and family medicine physician.