Cotton County Health Department

A comorbidity is any health condition that creates higher risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19. Oklahomans with a comorbidity are currently eligible for the vaccine. Register today at vaccinate.ok.gov or ask your personal care provider if you’re eligible.

It's Thankful Thursday! Thank you to First Baptist Church in Walters, the City of Walters, Cotton Co. Commissioners, Emergency Management, our first responder partners, the USDA, the OK National Guard, our Cotton County staff, and all of our wonderful OKMRC volunteers for another fantastic week of COVID-19 vaccine clinics across SWOK!

As reported yesterday, OSDH has changed the way COVID-19 deaths are reported to be in line with the CDC and more accurate with reporting. This has resulted in a lack of county data to report deaths and active case numbers. To find the CDC Provisional Death Count now being used by OSDH, please visit https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm These numbers represent COVID-19 data collected for Oklahoma and the ten counties served by the county health departments of District 5 for today, Thursday, March 4, 2021. For more information, please visit https://coronavirus.health.ok.gov/.

Website Wednesday- Head to the portal if you are eligible and have your booking email to schedule your first or second dose COVID-19 vaccine appointment for the week of March 8th! Just a reminder, Moderna and Pfizer will both be available for second dose appointments.

Today, the Oklahoma State Department of Health has changed the way we report COVID-19 deaths in an effort to show a more timely picture of the disease’s impact in Oklahoma. The CDC's Provisional Death Count is based on death certificates. As cases increased toward the end of 2020, our investigating epidemiologists began encountering larger numbers of incomplete records requiring in-depth investigation. This process has subsequently caused an increasing difference between the... OSDH death count. Thorough investigations of each COVID-19 death will continue while also reporting the Provisional Death Count, and in the long run, our numbers will more closely align with the CDC’s. These numbers represent COVID-19 data collected for Oklahoma and the ten counties served by the county health departments of District 5 for today, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. For more information, please visit https://coronavirus.health.ok.gov/.