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OSU Research teams continue to test COVID-19

COVID testing kits from around the state are being sent to OSU research labs to determine results

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OSU diagnostic lab joins battle against COVID-19 Jac ob Ko n da S taff Repo rt er @ o colly

Following a month of rapid changes for OSU students and staff, it has become increasingly clear that COVID-19 will not be going anywhere without a fight, a fight that Oklahoma State will be joining.

OSU announced on Friday that it would be using its certified diagnostic laboratory to help Oklahoma dramatically boost its COVID-19 testing capabilities. The news came just days before the university confirmed its first student case of coronavirus.

This recent arrival of 10,000 COVID-19 kits to Stillwater will reportedly allow Oklahoma to begin processing 2,000 tests a day without waiting for samples to be shipped across state lines. The return time for test results is expected to be cut down to just one day, a welcome relief from previous waits of up to six days.

In a visit this week to the Stillwater campus, Gov. Kevin Stitt stressed the significance of the state’s collaboration with partners at OSU. “Oklahoma State University has done incredible work to quickly find innovative ways to help our state significantly increase its COVID-19 testing capacity,” Stitt said.

“Secretary Shrum has been an invaluable member of my Governor’s Solution Task Force, and I commend President Hargis and her

for answering the call to help their fellow Oklahomans.”

The Oklahoma State Department of Health reported Tuesday that 565 Oklahomans have tested positive, a number that is quickly rising. Expanded testing capacities across the state will aid significantly in predicting spread of the virus and in isolating affected community members.

“We are pleased to support the state’s extensive efforts to blunt the spread of this virus,” OSU President Burns Hargis said. “I commend the innovation of our researchers and administrators to find ways we can use our experts and resources to overcome the challenges we face as this crisis evolves. Both OSU and OSU Center for Health Sciences experts are committed to doing our part to protect Oklahomans during this public health crisis.”

OSU’s diagnostic lab has been certified by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to run the tests for COVID-19 and now has the personnel and equipment to begin testing this week. Statements by Gov. Stitt suggest labs at the University of Oklahoma will soon be testing as well.

The official start date for that has not yet been made clear to the public.

Individuals will still need to get the initial swab administered by a medical professional. State officials are stressing that Oklahomans who suspect they may

have COVID-19 should not attempt to travel to Stillwater to receive a test.

They are instead advised to contact their doctor or healthcare provider first.

Kenneth Sewell, vice president for research at OSU, said the university’s ability to test hundreds of samples in an eight-hour shift puts it in a unique position to aid statewide efforts to accelerate testing.

If necessary, the diagnostic lab is prepared to increase its capability with additional shifts.

“All of our universities in the state play different roles, but only a few of us are research universities and have this kind of equipment, have the faculty that are trained up in this with staff and graduate assistants,” Sewell said.

“Everything they do at a research level is meant to have a positive impact on the public, but it’s a rare time when we can put that impact in play almost in real time.”

“We are pleased to support the state’s extensive efforts to blunt the spread of this virus.”

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By April 1, the Census Bureau will have sent out letters to all residences with a unquie code to login to complete the 2020 census.

What to expect from the census Megan H ays L i fe s ty l e E di to r @ megth e re p o rte r

While in the middle of a pandemic, it can be hard to remember what an important year 2020 is politically. Aside from the presidential election in November, this year marks the 23 census since the first in 1790. For most students, this will be the first time they will have filled out the census on their own, so here’s what to expect.

Before the questionnaire can be filled out, you should have received two envelopes in the mail.

Both contain the same information, but the important thing is the Census ID listed on the letter inside.

This ID is what determines the place you will be living on April 1.

If you are currently living at home due to the pandemic, register for the place you spend the most time. For most OSU

students, that is Stillwater.

There is also an option for listing both of your residences; just make sure whoever is filling out the questionnaire for that household knows to mark you as living in two places.

The questions are simple and are protected by law to not be released in any manner that would identify you or the people in the household. The questions range from type of living situation, like a rented apartment or mortgaged house, to who pays for the rent to the ethnicity information of the people living there.

The questionnaire is designed to only take 10 minutes, and even if a call needs to be made to a roommate to get lineage information, it still should not take long to complete.

Be honest in answering the questions and give as much information as possible. The data is used to allocate federal funds

to the local community or to bring in national businesses, but it will also be used to redraw political district lines, determine the number of representatives a state is given in the House of Representatives and in population research data, like psychological studies.

People are required by law to fill out the census.

The count of people should be completed by December when the Census Bureau will deliver the information to the president and Congress on how many elected representatives will be allotted for each state.

Communicate with the people in the household, both in your hometown and Stillwater, to determine who is filling the form out and how everyone would like to be listed.

Make the 10 minutes it takes to answer the questionnaire count.

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Everything coming to Netflix in April E l li e Mele r o Ne ws Editor @ e l ean or _m el er o

Around the world, the novel coronavirus has people practicing social distancing guidelines and staying indoors. On Monday, the City of Stillwater issued a Shelter in Place order that will stay in effect until April 16 at the earliest, meaning even fewer people should be out and about.

But many people are bored of staying home.

Luckily, Netflix adds to its offerings every month, meaning there will be new content to binge watch on April 1, so you can stop rewatching the same three shows. Here’s what I’m looking forward to watching most.

The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show Iliza Shlesinger is one of my all-time favorite comedians, right up there with John Mulaney and Ali Wong. So, obviously, I’m excited for this sketch show. Iliza has four standup specials on Netflix already, and all of them are hilarious. I’m excited to see what she’s come up with for this; it’s sure to be a riot.

Despicable Me This movie came out when I was in middle school, and it was my little sister’s favorite movie for a long time. We watched it all the time on road trips and when I babysat her. I haven’t watched it in years, so I’m excited to rewatch it now. It’s a

great family movie, but it’s also just a great movie to watch when you don’t want to watch something too serious. Plus, how can you not love the movie that gave us “Gorls?”

The Vatican Tapes Anyone who knows me knows I love horror, and nothing scares me more than demons and possession, so this movie about exorcisms is right up my alley. It’s a great movie for any horror fan. Plus, it’s got Michael Pena.

Here are all the movies and shows coming to Netflix in April.

April 1 40 Days and 40 Nights Bloodsport Cadillac Records Can’t Hardly Wait Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke Community: Season 1-6 David Batra: Elefanten I Rummet The Death of Stalin Deep Impact The Girl With All the Gifts God’s Not Dead The Hangover How to Fix a Drug Scandal The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show Just Friends Killer Klowns From Outer Space Kim’s Convenience: Season 4 Lethal Weapon Lethal Weapon 2 Lethal Weapon 3 Lethal Weapon 4 The Matrix The Matrix Reloaded The Matrix Revolutions

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Every month, Netflix adds new homework distractions and takes away old ones.

Minority Report Molly’s Game Mortal Kombat Mud Nailed It!: Season 4 The Perks of Being a Wallflower Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon: S3: Sun & Moon – Ultra Legends Promised Land Road to Perdition The Roommate The Runaways Salt School Daze Sherlock Holmes The Social Network Soul Plane Sunderland ‘Til I Die: Season 2 Sunrise in Heaven Taxi Driver Wildling April 2 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll April 3 Coffee & Kareem La casa de papel: Part 4 Money Heist: The Phenomenon Spirit Riding Free: Riding Academy StarBeam April 4 Angel Has Fallen April 5 The Killing of a Sacred Deer April 6 The Big Show Show April 7 Terrace House: Tokyo 2019-2020: Part 3 April 9 Hi Score Girl: Season 2 April 10 Brews Brothers LA Originals La vie scolaire

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Love Wedding Repeat The Main Event Tigertail April 11 Code 8 April 14 Chris D’Elia: No Pain April 15 The Innocence Files Outer Banks April 16 Despicable Me Fary: Hexagone: Season

Fauda: Season 3 Hail, Caesar!

Mauricio Meirelles: Levando o Caos Jem and the Holograms April 17 Betonrausch #blackAF Earth and Blood (La terre et le sang) The Last Kids on Earth: Book 2 Legado en los huesos

Sergio Too Hot to Handle April 18 The Green Hornet April 20 Cooked With Cannabis The Midnight Gospel The Vatican Tapes April 21 Bleach: The Assault Bleach: The Bount Middleditch & Schwartz April 22 Absurd Planet Circus of Books El silencio del pantano The Plagues of Breslau The Willoughbys Win the Wilderness April 23 The House of Flowers: Season 3 April 24 After Life: Season 2 Extraction Hello Ninja: Season 2 Yours Sincerely, Kanan Gill April 25 The Artist Django Unchained April 26 The Last Kingdom: Season 4 April 27 Battle: Los Angeles Never Have I Ever April 29 A Secret Love Extracurricular Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story Nadiya’s Time to Eat Summertime April 30 Dangerous Lies Drifting Dragons The Forest of Love: Deep Cut Rich in Love (Rico de Amor) The Victims’ Gam

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For your information: Viruses Megan Hays Li fe s tyle Editor @ m egther ep ort er

With the media almost solely focusing on the ongoing effects of COVID-19 spreading across the country, some people’s curiosity is fueled by fear, confusion or interest to understand exactly what COVID-19 is and how people deal with viruses. Luckily, your friendly science major is here to help go over some science questions to better get a handle on what is happening at a molecular level.

What is a virus?

A virus is essentially a capsule of DNA or RNA. Most people are familiar with DNA, the unique code for each individual living thing. RNA is very similar, with a few chemical differences, but it can also encode proteins and other cellular functions.

How do viruses replicate?

Unlike humans and bacteria, viruses don’t have cells, which are considered the basic unit required to be called a life form. Viruses are just at the edge of being called living because, while they have genes they pass down to their offspring and can mutate, they don’t have any of the equipment needed to replicate on their own.

Without the ability to multiply on their own, viruses will attach to a host cell, depending on the kind of virus and depending on what kind of cell

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With the public’s attention on COVID-19, some people might be curious to understand what a virus is and how it makes people sick.

and where on the cell it attaches too. From there, it will penetrate through the cell membrane, a thin protective fatty layer, before inserting its own genetic code into the cell’s machinery. The virus will make as many copies as it can until the cell literally bursts or lysis from the amount of virus inside the cell.

As all the baby viruses come out they’ll go on to spread to other cells and repeat the process.

Why do we get sick from viruses?

Lysis results in cell death, and this is what causes us to get sick.

The symptoms being displayed depends on dependdon the function of the cells being infected.

How does our body fight against viruses?

Even though viruses multiply extremely quickly in a short span of time, our bodies do have

a good defense system to deal with them. Our body will raise our temperature to make it harder for the virus to do its internal processes. Of course, that also affects our own cells past a certain temperature. The big guns are the antibodies the body produces. This Y-shaped protein has two sites on its ends that bind to certain places on the virus and render it useless and also could release chemicals that destroy the virus. For each virus a person has been exposed to, the body has a specific antibody with a specialized site for that particular virus.

There is still a lot researchers are learning about viruses. With viruses that affect every kind of life form on earth, there are novel varieties like the one responsible for COVID-19 that are still being discovered and characterized.

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This chart tracks the number of positive COVID test in Oklahoma counties by time.

Charting COVID-19

by Oklahoma County K ay l a Dunn E di to r i n C h i e f @ K ay l aJ_Dunn

How many people in Oklahoma (or Payne County etc.) have tested positive for COVID-19?

Starting on March 16, this graph tracks the number of people in Oklahoma that have tested positive for COVID-19. The blue line represents the state of Oklahoma as a whole; the other lines represent counties in Oklahoma. The counties represented in this graph were chosen due to various factors, such as population density, the location of OSU and OU, and more.

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‘A lot of things happened on that day’: The day the season stopped B e n H utchen s S taf f Repo rt er @ be n_hutc h en s 0 1

On March 12 at 4:07 p.m. the NCAA issued a memo that officially cancelled all spring championships due to the threat of COVID-19. This essentially ended the Oklahoma State women’s tennis team’s season.

“We were getting ready to go to Manhattan and play Kansas State the following day.” Coach Chris Young said.

The team was told to hold off traveling to Kansas because of the constantly changing situation.

“It started taking on different steps, it went from we weren’t going to travel and play that weekend, to we were going to have two weeks off from the conference, to the nationals being cancelled all in the span of an hour, hour and a half,” Young said. “All those things started happening pretty fast.”

While Young headed to his office to get more information, the players found themselves eating lunch inside the locker room wondering what exactly the rest of their season would look like.

They certainly could have taken the uncertain and stressful time worse; instead practicing their TikTok videos.

Young learned about the NCAA’s memo the same way most people did: social media.

“I Initially found out because someone sent me the release (the NCAA) had

done on Twitter.”

“I think things that day were happening so fast we were focusing more on how this was going to affect our Big 12 play. I was (on the phone) with our administration thinking about the conference, and the NCAA put (the notice of cancellation) out without us really having time to react to it.”

Young was the one tasked with breaking the news to his team. He had already told them that some sort of cancellation looked likely, but it was still a tough pill to swallow.

“I think it was all so new and there were so many unknowns that it was a difficult decision for the girls (to handle). It was surprising, and with the way we were playing as a team and with the momentum we had, we only lost once, had won several matches in a row and got off to a good start in Big 12 play.

Just to feel that it ended was something no one saw coming and I think that was a challenge.

The sudden end of the season presented logistical challenges for the team as well.

“We had most of the girls stay here over spring break because there was a lot of unknowns about what we were going to do. We tried to keep them busy and give them some structure.”

Young said. “The biggest thing we were waiting on was if (OSU) was going to online school the rest of the semester because some of the international kids couldn’t just move out and go home and if (physi-

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With the coronavirus pandemic going on, Oklahoma State’s NCAA tennis championship hosting dream is on hold.

cal) classes picked up as scheduled to come back to Stillwater would have been impossible.”

Once the university made the move to onlineonly classes, Young and his coaching staff worked one by one with each of the five international players on his team to help get them back to their home countries.

“Every country was a little bit different on what they needed from us and what paperwork (the players) needed to travel with.”

Young said.

All but two of the international players returned to their home country. The two remaining players are unable to return due to international traveling regulations and the 14-day isolation that would be required upon landing in a foreign country, so they will be

finishing the academic semester in Stillwater.

Perhaps the most important part of a team is the chemistry and the relationships between its members. Although the almost daily interaction the team is used to is impossible with players scattered across different continents, Young is doing his best to keep that chemistry alive.

“We actually have a call Saturday as a team on Zoom where we are all going to get on there and catch up with everybody. It is a good way for me to stay on top of things, stay in contact with them and find a way to grow throughout this process.

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the team, fans and city of Stillwater is now clouded as a result of coronavirus. The

2020 NCAA Men’s and Women’s National Championships were slated to be played in the Michael and Anne Greenwood Tennis Center, the home of OSU tennis.

In July, the NCAA is supposed to award the bids for the NCAA championship host sites for 20232026. “(I’m) hoping that (the NCAA) sees our hard work, and that they would give it to us one of those years maybe at the beginning of it,” Young said.

The reality is, nobody, not even Young, knows if OSU will be able to “Cut the line” and host a championship in the near future.

“There are just a lot of unknowns on our end on what their thought process is,” Young said. “I think, as the governing body, the

NCAA is looking at what kind of precedence it sets with championships not just with our sport but other sports as well.”

As disappointing as the end of the season is for his team, Young was able to find some much-needed positives.

“I think it is an opportunity to grow and have some downtime we typically don’t have this time of year,” Young said.

“The kids can see how quickly things can change and how quickly things end. Whether it is good or bad, there is change coming down the road so how we deal with that is really important. Anytime you have this amount of downtime it is important to grow, and hopefully our kids can all do that and get better on and off the court.”

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Today’s Birthday (04/01/20). Your professional star is on the rise this year. Coordinated teamwork can move mountains. Make a shift with travels and education this summer before domestic renovations blossom. Shifting professional conditions and communication barriers leads to amazing discoveries and breakthroughs next winter. Grow your valuable skills.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Choose what’s best for family. If something goes against your grain, turn it down. It pays to recycle and reuse.

Find simple ways to conserve.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- You can see what wasn’t working.

Wait for better conditions to launch or issue public statements. Edit, revise and polish your communications. Review well.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Focus on making money. Disruptions and interruptions conspire to keep you from your work. Resist temptation to procrastinate. Make your deadlines and celebrate.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- An obstacle blocks a personal objective. Get rid of excess baggage. Figure out what’s missing and keep your wits about you. You’ve got this.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You may be learning more than you wanted to know. Find a quiet place to process recent news and circumstances.

Listen to your spirit.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- A group project may seem far from the desired result. Maintain objectivity. Discipline is required, and the more people participate, the faster things happen.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- New facts dispel fears at work. Pursue professional opportunities with steady focus. Use caution or risk breakage. You can’t do everything. Get support when needed.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Dream about an upcoming adventure. Keep squirreling away nuts for later. Budget for a simple lifestyle on the road. Classes and conferences entice.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- You won’t need to defer gratification forever. Prioritize paying bills and reducing debt. Practice frugality and grow a shared dream into reality.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Two heads are better than one.

Slow to navigate a barrier. Compassion and calm save time and trouble. Cook up a wonderful dream together.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Watch your step. Old assumptions can get challenged. Don’t push beyond physical limitations. Nurture your body, mind and spirit. Practice to realize a dream.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Competition or romance? Either could be fun. Don’t take on new challenges yet. Observe, dream and make plans.

Consider options. You’re attracted, and attractive.