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State admits being slow to report additional 2,500 COVID-19 deaths…

11:11 AM EST on March 8, 2021

Now that we've made it through the fall-winter surge, and Oklahomans are receiving vaccinations at a decent clip, there appears to be an end in sight – albeit a blurry one – to the pandemic-as-we-know-it.

As a result, the Kevin Stitt administration has figured this would probably be a good time to admit the state's reporting for COVID-19 deaths was off by about 2,500 people or so. No big deal, right?

Here are some details via a Forman / Branham report in The Oklahoman_: