Coronavirus updates: Over 7,000 Americans died in past week

Oklahoma House Minority Leader Emily Virgin on Tuesday begged for a statewide mask order on behalf of the House Democratic Caucus.

"There have been more than 1,400 COVID deaths in Oklahoma and the governor has not come up with a single plan to keep that number from getting to 2,000. This is a total failure in leadership," Virgin said.

"First, we are told that it [a mask mandate] was a matter of freedom. This is an issue of public safety and saving lives," Virgin said. "Thirty-five states have found a way to issue a mask mandate and enforce it"

"The governor is running out of excuses for his failed leadership and Oklahomans are dying," she said.

 "ICU beds in Tulsa are full. Oklahoma City beds are approaching that mark," she said. "Governor, we are asking you to do the right thing. If the governors of surrounding states and other red states like Utah can make this decision, you can, too."

In a statement Saturday Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt said, "Keep washing your hands frequently, watch your distance from others, and wear a mask when social distancing isn’t possible or visiting indoor public places."

"Taking these steps together as a state will allow us to continue to keep our lives operating as close to normal as possible," he said. "Oklahomans pulled together back in April so we could safely reopen our economy, and I am asking for that same unified effort once again to slow the spread of this virus and keep Oklahomans safe.”

ABC News' Michelle Mendez contributed to this report

If Pfizer's vaccine is authorized by the FDA, U.S. distribution could start at increments of about 20 million doses per month, potentially as early as late November, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar told reporters Tuesday.

"Back in April, when I was forming Operation Warp Speed, if you told me that by November we would have exciting data from a Phase 3 vaccine trial and substantial supplies of a monoclonal antibody authorized and ready for distribution, I would have been absolutely stunned," Azar said.

Pfizer said Monday that the earliest it could have the requisite safety data needed to apply for FDA authorization is the third week of November. The company also said it expects to produce 50 million doses globally before the end of the year. Each person needs two doses. 

ABC News' Sony Salzman contributed to this report

Now that Pfizer Inc. said Monday that its vaccine may be 90% effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci says it's possible that "by the time we get into December, we'll be able to have doses available for people ... at the highest priority to get it first."

"Hopefully, since this is such an effective vaccine, or efficacious at least in the trial, that after a reasonable period of time, we will get vaccine to everyone who wants and needs it and hopefully that will be the overwhelming majority of the country," Fauci told MSNBC Tuesday. "The vaccine is a very, very important tool in ending this pandemic both domestically and internationally.”

Fauci added that he will take the vaccine and he'll "recommend that my family take the vaccine.”

ABC News' Sophie Tatum contributed to this report

Every state in the country is reporting an increasing number of new COVID-19 cases, according to the COVID Tracking Project 

In Washington, D.C., and five states -- California, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont -- cases are low, but increasing.

In the remaining 45 states as well as Guam, and Puerto Rico, cases are high and staying high.

ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos, Soorin Kim, Brian Hartman and Ben Bell contributed to this report