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Coronavirus in Oklahoma: How Oklahoma City changed the way America thinks about this pandemic

Cecilia Robinson-Woods watched the situation unfold Wednesday night at Chesapeake Energy Arena with dread.

After the game between the Thunder and Jazz was halted seconds before tipoff, the teams were ushered off the court. There was a delay, then a postponement, and while the reasons weren’t immediately known, everyone had a suspicion as to why.

Coronavirus.

Robinson-Woods, superintendent of Millwood Schools, is president of the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association Board of Directors, and as soon as she saw what was happening in downtown Oklahoma City, she called the association’s executive director, David Jackson.

“This is gonna be rough,” she told him.