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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 unvaccin ....

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