President Trump will no longer speak before his Tulsa rally at an outdoor area that was set up for an overflow crowd
Trump said in a Wall Street Journal interview earlier this week thatthis Saturday may catch coronavirus, but added “it’s a very small percentage.”
New cases in Tulsa County have also been climbing, and the county is now seeing its highest seven-day average for new cases at 97.3, according to the latest data from theAccording to a CNN analysis of Johns Hopkins University data, Oklahoma averaged about 265 new cases per day over the week ending June 19, which is approximately 121% higher than the previous seven-day period.
"Unfortunately, we continue to set new records in the number of cases reported in Tulsa County," Bruce Dart, the director of the Tulsa Health Department, said Wednesday at a news conference.
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