By: Anjelicia Bruton
OKLAHOMA CITY -
OU Children's Hospital is hoping to get as many people vaccinated as possible as the Delta Variant continues to spread statewide.
“I'm concerned that we are heading into another wave of COVID hospitalizations and deaths,” OU Health family medicine physician Dr. Shawn Fitzgerald said.
According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, there are approximately 465,000 positive COVID-19 cases. Dr. Fitzgerald said the most dominant strain of COVID-19 right now is the Delta variant.
“It's very infectious and it makes people ill very quickly as compared to the variant of COVID-19 that was infecting individuals last winter,” Dr. Fitzgerald said.