THD Executive Director Bruce Dart said that as of Wednesday, more than 41,100 doses had been administered in Tulsa County, 10,839 of which were administered by the Health Department.
The state has made another 8,680 vaccines available to the county next week.
Those people who received their first shot from THD do not need to make an appointment for a second shot, Dart said, and should try to return for the second shot as close to the recommended date as possible.
The second shot of the Pfizer vaccine is typically administered 21 days after the first shot, and the second shot of the Moderna vaccine is given 28 days after the first.
“What we request is you time it around the same time of day as your first appointment, that you bring your vaccine card with you to the vaccine clinic,” Dart said.
The county’s infection rate, meanwhile, continues to increase. As of Monday, more than 9% of Tulsa County residents had tested positive for the virus with the percentage expected to reach 10% within the next 12 days, Dart said. In the first week of January, the county saw 3,819 new cases — the largest one-week number since the pandemic began. And the positivity rate for THD-administered tests in January was 31.1%.
The Tulsa Health Department reported 452 new cases in the county Thursday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases since the pandemic began to 59,612, nearly 5,400 of which are active. Five hundred eighteen county residents have died of the disease, including nine reported Thursday.
