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Is Oklahoma Ready for COVID-19 Surge?

Hundreds of deaths. Overwhelmed hospitals. Health-care workers improvising to protect themselves as infections spread. Oklahoma’s worst-case scenarios are grim. Beyond social distancing, here’s a look at 5 areas essential to the state’s defense.

Health Workers: Risks of Shortages and Exposure

Testing: Are Long Waits for Tests and Results Over?

Beds: Questions of Supply for All Patients

Ventilators: State Hunts for More Amid Concerns

Protective Equipment: Scramble to Build the Treatment Shield

Education

Lack of Rules Let Elite School Ignore Sexual Harassment and Bullying of Students

House Dems Ask Speaker to Investigate Grounds to Impeach Ryan Walters

Criminal Justice

Cover-up Alleged in Pottawatomie County Jail Deaths

Oklahoma Inches Closer to Eliminating Private Prisons

Experts: Money Alone Can’t Solve Mental Health Access Issues in Rural Jails

Public Health

Her pregnancy was non-viable and her life was at risk but Oklahoma Law Prevented an Abortion

Oklahoma Kindergarten Vaccination Exemptions Now Highest in Region

What a State Business Decision Means For Veterans in Talihina

Government

Some State Agencies Cancel More Public Meetings Than They Hold

Oklahoma Public Employees Pension System Takes Exemption to Banking Law

As Restricted Banking List Narrows, Oklahoma Pension Systems Eye Exemptions

ELECTIONS

Long Story Short: How Stitt Paid For His Inauguration Party

Stitt’s Second Inaugural Committee Raised Nearly $1.5 Million

What Lawmakers Did and Didn’t Do for Voters and Election Officials

Children

Homeless Youth Walk a Hidden Path in Rural Oklahoma

Long Story Short: New Social Studies Curriculum Goes For a Test Drive

Revisiting Our Series: Conversations