Full Panel Discussion: Oklahoma health leaders join KOCO 5 to answer questions about COVID-19, vaccine Share Updated: 7:00 PM CST Mar 9, 2021 KOCO Staff Share Updated: 7:00 PM CST Mar 9, 2021
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Show Transcript Wow. What a year. Hey, I m having Onstott. Yes, tonight is about looking back. But it is also about looking ahead. How do we return to normal life? Where are we on the vaccine? What are some of the answers that to the question that you ve been asking. So we ve assembled a wonderful team of doctors, people who you ve been seeing here on Ko cio throughout the pandemic. Answering your questions. Let s go out and just introduce them. Dr. Dale Brattskar with ou Health Dr Chad Smith below him from from Mercy Hospital in the upper right here. Behind me is Dr David Chancel with integrity and in the bottom. Right behind me here is Doctor Steven Prescott. Gentlemen, thank you so much. Uh, Dr Prescott with O m r f the Oklahom
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Show Transcript Yes, the coronavirus pandemic affecting people all across our state. We are still right in the middle of this fight against covid. 19. Hundreds of thousands infected, thousands dead. In the next 30 days or so, anybody that wants a vaccine will be able to get it. But hope on the horizon. A vaccine now available. But you ve got questions. Does the vaccine work against these new variants? That s what everybody wants to know. And tonight we re getting answers. A panel of our state s top experts with what you need to know about the vaccines and looking forward to where we go from here. This is ko CEOs chronicle Oklahoma s covid fight. Yeah, And tonight we are taking a look at the impact of the pandemic in our state. Thank you so much for joining us this evening. I m Jessica Schambach. From the very first confirmed case to the new expansion of vaccine eligibility, we start with K. O. C s Jason Hackett and a