Mobile-phone location data from people who attended President Donald Trump's rally in Oklahoma show that most came from outside Tulsa, hailing from at least 44 counties spread across 12 states. COVID-19 is on the rise in 33 of them.

Gov. Kevin Stitt has taken a hands-off approach when it came to requiring people to wear masks in public places during a pandemic citing local control. But he wants to micromanage urban schools, our editorial board writes.

New COVID-19 cases in Tulsa County have spiked to their highest levels since the pandemic began, and health department director Bruce Dart says it's not safe for the president or the public to be in a large crowd right now. 

"As a physician, my oath is to do no harm, and to sit silently on this matter feels wrong," Dr. Whiteside writes.

Trump said the rally would be in a “beautiful new venue, brand new,” which was just announced by the White House as being the 12-year-old BOK Center in downtown.

“Every single person I saw storming that Capitol was a version of Timothy McVeigh,” said Holt, who was elected mayor of Oklahoma City in 2018.

Data compiled by John Hopkins University indicated that Oklahoma saw a 255% increase in cases over a two-week period, the largest jump among 27 states identified with a significant rise in cases.