Corey Jones
Tulsa World
The state s relocation of the Public Health Lab from Oklahoma City to sharing a refurbished building in Stillwater with a newly created Oklahoma Pandemic Center hit another bump with the resignation of the project s director only four months in.
An association that supports local and state public health labs wrote Gov. Kevin Stitt and other state officials in October to express significant concerns and warn that moving the lab so quickly into an interim facility not designed for the purpose will be very challenging and costly.
The dominant concern, according to the letter, is to assure employee and community safety, as well as the lab s integrity.