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The Senate is hearing HB 1007. It appropriates hundreds of millions of dollars to university hospitals, but it says they can't use any of it for gender-affirming care. Link to the hearing: oksenate.gov/live-chamber
Link to the bill: oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?…
Link to the bill: oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?…
Minority Leader Kay Floyd: There was a comment that the majority of Oklahomans don't support gender-affirming care. Where did you get that figure?
Senate Pro Tempore Greg Treat: We haven't done polling, but that is the consensus in who is reaching out to our offices. #okhealth
Senate Pro Tempore Greg Treat: We haven't done polling, but that is the consensus in who is reaching out to our offices. #okhealth
Floyd: Minors have to have parents' permission to undergo any health care. Is this measure anti-choice?
Treat: We don't allow minors to make life-changing decisions — to get tattoos, buy cigarettes or enter contracts.
Floyd: Are you likening health care to getting a tattoo?
Treat: We don't allow minors to make life-changing decisions — to get tattoos, buy cigarettes or enter contracts.
Floyd: Are you likening health care to getting a tattoo?
OU Health statement: The center was neber slated to offer GA care, and "The OU Health Senior Leadership team is proactively planning the ceasing of certain gender medicine services across our facilities and that plan is already under development." #okhealth
Several conservative states have made gender-affirming care for minors a wedge issue, and it appears Oklahoma is joining the ranks.
GA care is not new. Here is a story @MegWingerter did on OU Health's program in 2019. oklahoman.com/story/lifestyl…
GA care is not new. Here is a story @MegWingerter did on OU Health's program in 2019. oklahoman.com/story/lifestyl…
Also, this isn't happening in a vacuum. Just a little context: Tucker Carlson has been on a campaign against GA care, in this segment, accusing hospitals of "sexually mutilating children for profit."
video.foxnews.com/v/631272057011…
video.foxnews.com/v/631272057011…
I had a helpful conversation with Dr. Aaron Wendelboe, a professor at OUHSC and former state epidemiologist, about waning antibodies this morning. Here's a little thread for anyone interested. #okhealth
We keep hearing that after six months, you don't have "circulating antibodies anymore." That does not mean your immunity is gone.
It is normal, for any disease response, to lose those circulating antibodies. They aren't your only defense.
Gov. Kevin Stitt and AG John O'Connor are giving an update on their legal fight against the Biden Administration regarding vaccine mandates. #okhealth Here's the link if you want to watch.
Stitt repeats the quote that President Biden, right after his election, said he would not mandate the vaccine. top-ranking Republicans, such as U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. Here's a look at that. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
O'Connor: We've been asked, why so many lawsuits? "It's because the Biden Administration has rolled out its vaccine mandates on multiple fronts." He says the President does not have the authority under the Constitution or the laws of this country to mandate the vaccine.
Saint Francis will be providing weekly information to the media — with the intent of informing the public — on COVID. As of now, 237 people are in the system with COVID. #okhealth We're getting a presser from them now.
Stream here:
newson6.com/videolivestrea…
Stream here:
newson6.com/videolivestrea…
Dr. Cliff Robertson, president and chief executive officer of Saint Francis Health System: If the trends continue, we will have to delay care for certain patients to make room for COVID patients.
We're going to hear from Dr. Ryan Parker, an emergency medicine doctor.
We're going to hear from Dr. Ryan Parker, an emergency medicine doctor.
Parker: COVID patients at St. Francis are younger now. Average is 56. "That's a full greater than 10 years younger than our average patient back in the winter." We had a pregnant woman in her 30s die last week, a 40 year old man over the weekend. "It is very personal."
The State Department of Health briefing has started. We'll be hearing from Commissioner of Health Lance Frye, Deputy Commissioner Keith Reed and Dr. Gitanjali Pai, the chief medical officer. #okhealth
Frye: 50 percent of Oklahomans have received at least one dose. "I know this is no small task." We've been seeing a significant increase in COVID. We've spent a significant amount of time with hospitals, and the former surge plan is still in place.
The governor has approved emergency rules, which among other things, will require hospitals to submit the capacity data they did earlier in the pandemic and will set a floor on the number of COVID samples they send for genomic sequencing. oklahoma.gov/content/dam/ok…
We're getting the Healthier Oklahoma Coalition briefing. Dr. David Kendrick, Department Chair of Medical Informatics at OU School of Community Medicine is giving a statistics update.
Dr. Kendrick shared this. Top is overall hospitalizations over time, trending down. But bottom is percent of cases hospitalized. Testing is low, so people aren't getting diagnosed until they're sick. But it does appear that Delta is more likely to cause hospitalization. 
Kendrick: Hospitalizations appear more likely with the Delta variant, and the share of ICU admittance is also higher than we had during the peak this winter. "When they're being admitted, they're being admitted to a higher level of care." #okhealth
