OKLAHOMA CITY - President Donald Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa that drew thousands of people in late June, along with large protests that accompanied it, “likely contributed" to a dramatic surge in new coronavirus cases, Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Dr.
Bruce Dart said Wednesday.Tulsa County reported 261 confirmed new cases on Monday, a one-day record high, and another 206 cases on Tuesday.Although the health department's policy is to not publicly identify individual settings where people may have contracted the virus, Dart said those large gatherings “more than likely" contributed to the spike.“In the past few days, we’ve seen almost 500 new cases, and we had several large events just over two weeks ago, so I guess we.