KFOR:
As the omicron variant is spreading across the country, one local health expert fears we’re not getting a clear picture of its impact on Oklahoma.
“I think we need to identify that we’ve had a failure and we need to fix it,” said Dr. George Monks, with the Oklahoma State Medical Association. “Oklahomans deserve better.”
Monks is constantly going over the state’s COVID-19 numbers and tests for variants of concern and that’s where he became concerned, finding a difference in numbers reported.
“The State of Oklahoma is saying we’ve done 11,198 tests, yet the CDC is showing we’ve only done 6,880,” Monks said. “We were the last state in the nation to identify the alpha variant and we were the next to last state in the nation to identify omicron so something is not working.”