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Meals on Wheels matching grant

April 16, 2020

Meals on Wheels of Metro Tulsa, a Tulsa-based, community funded nonprofit serving homebound individuals with nutritious meals and essential services, received a $50,000 Matching Grant from the Helmerich Family Trust to support the organization’s mission to deliver meals and essential services to homebound seniors during COVID-19. The Helmerich Family Trust will match all donations made…

Number of homeless needing help spiking

April 9, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on Tulsa’s homeless population and it could quickly get much worse, according to the Rev. Steve Whitaker, senior pastor and CEO of John 3:16 Mission. “This is stressful,” Whitaker said. “We are being told to shelter in place. The people we serve in some respects are the hardest…

Mend Resource Center helping pregnant women

April 9, 2020

What is Mend Medical Clinic and Pregnancy Resource Center’s is responding to COVID-19 in several ways even though the clinic itself is closed. All the area pregnancy resource centers are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic but so are the state’s abortion clinics. Gov. Kevin Stitt’s issued an executive order to halt elective surgeries so…

Judge reopens Oklahoma abortion clinics

April 9, 2020

U.S. District Judge Charles Goodwin thinks Gov. Kevin Stitt has no right to label abortion as elective surgery and has ordered that the abortion clinics in Oklahoma be allowed to reopen and resume their deadly procedures. Goodwin issued a temporary restraining order Monday to lift Stitt’s ban on surgical abortions in Oklahoma. Stitt issued the…

Trump declares a disaster in Oklahoma

April 9, 2020

President Donald Trump approved Gov. Kevin Stitt’s request for a Major Disaster Declaration covering all 77 Oklahoma counties. The declaration authorizes FEMA’s Public Assistance program, which provides federal funding for emergency protective measures and direct federal assistance for state and local governments as they continue to respond to the COVID-19 emergency. It includes other programs…

Confirmed cases rise in Tulsa

April 9, 2020

As of Monday, there were 1,327 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Oklahoma with 51 deaths. Those numbers are sure to rise. The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) central warehouse is operating seven days a week to address emergency personal protective equipment (PPE) and supply restocking needs of medical system providers, local health departments, emergency…

Testing Sites

April 9, 2020

The state now has supplies to test more than 13,000 individuals for COVID-19. Cox and Stitt urge health care providers and testing centers to loosen testing requirements and to offer testing to any Oklahoman with symptoms of COVID-19. Per CDC guidelines, symptoms must include fever of 100.4 degrees, cough and shortness of breath. Tulsa –…

Shopping restrictions by retailers

April 9, 2020

Some retail grocers are limiting the number of customers allowed in their stores and marking aisles with arrows to add separation to customers. Since Saturday, Wal-Mart is letting only five customers – per 1,000 square feet – in at a given time. Shoppers are being let in one by one and Wal-Mart employees are counting…

Coronavirus in Oklahoma prisons

April 9, 2020

LEXINGTON – An Oklahoma Department of Corrections staff member at Joseph Harp Correctional Center in Lexington has tested positive for COVID-19. That staff member has not been in the facility since March 29. Based on the timeline when the staff member last worked at the facility, the health department advises there is no need for…

249 cases in Tulsa, eight deaths

April 9, 2020

To date, the OSDH confirmed 175 positive COVID-19 cases in Tulsa County. 20 residents have recovered and eight have died. Test results are updated daily at www.ok.gov/health. For more information, visit www.cityoftulsa.org/COVID-19.