What does it mean to quarantine? Local public health authorities determine and establish the quarantine options for their jurisdictions. Quarantine is used to keep someone who might have been exposed to COVID-19 away from others.

Local medical providers are urging patients 55 years and older who experience any symptoms of COVID-19 not to delay getting tested. Those who have any high-risk medical conditions—including high blood pressure, heart or lung disease, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, obesity, or an immunosuppressive disease—and who test positive for COVID-19, may meet the criteria to receive a medication which may reduce the severity of the illness in patients.

“WHAT A YEAR this has been,” Doug Benge said, echoing what many of us have felt in 2020. But Doug isn’t just glad 2020 is over.

OKLAHOMA CITY—It was 40 years ago today that 21-year-old newlywed Tracey Neilson was savagely murdered in her Moore, Oklahoma, apartment. Jan. 5, 1981 was Tracey’s birthday, and the OU student spent the morning running errands around Moore. Eyewitnesses put her home just before noon. Despite several friends and family calling to wish Tracey happy birthday, no one heard from her after noon.