▪️The Oklahoma Public Health Lab is having to outsource tests as they don’t have the capability anymore to do them.
▪️Oklahoma sends tests to
#Minnesota,
#Nebraska,
#Kansas
▪️This is fallout from the terrible decision to move this lab to Payne County 4 years ago with no input from
#okleg
▪️This lab has been under federal investigation twice with major deficiencies noted. Newborn testing was botched.
▪️We invested $30 million into a new lab but forgot to build a vented room for lab workers to safely do BSL3 testing.
▪️This new lab is less functional and can do fewer types of tests than the old outdated lab in OKC. The tests circled in green are all tests that could be done at OPHL when located in OKC but cannot be done at our brand new lab. 👇
▪️Oklahoma taxpayers also paid for two CEO’s to manage the Oklahoma Pandemic Center in Payne County which apparently never existed?
🔴A fast moving deadly E. Coli outbreak from McDonald’s quarter pounders has sickened 49 and hospitalized 10.
🔴 Oklahoma is the only US state with a state lab that cannot perform food borne illness tracking testing.
🔴 Oklahoma lost this testing 4 yrs ago▶️ Lab was moved to Payne County.