Oklahoma’s public health infrastructure worked hand in glove with the first Trump presidency’s public health response, complete with the botched unemployment software and rollout as well as preemptively reopening businesses in the spring of 2020.
But we might consider something else is going on with the state government’s poor oversight of our public health systems: Maybe it’s more a dog-and-pony show performed by none other than Gov. Kevin Stitt’s state Department of Health, a public entity responsible for all manner of public health enforcement, rule-making, and oversight, that has seen turmoil unlike any other state agency starting before Stitt even took office.
One group has been sounding the alarm on the real impacts the mismanagement of OSDH has had on the people of Oklahoma – its medical providers. Chief among them is Dr. George Monks, a physician based in the Tulsa area who served as president of the state medical association during COVID. We asked him to join us for this week’s Observercast – Caring For The Sick And Lowly – for a deep dive into the current state of public health in Oklahoma and how it goes far beyond new, so-called novel diseases like COVID.
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