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Photo courtesy of the CDCCOVID is surging, but new vaccines have been approved. Here’s what to know -
Jo Ingles/Statehouse News BureauThe Ohio Department of Health is tracking both the mosquito-borne West Nile virus and COVID.
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More than half of U.S. households have ordered at-home COVID-19 tests to be shipped to their homes. Now they can get more. -
Columbus City Council is expected to vote Monday evening to lift the mask mandate that requires residents to wear a mask in indoor public places. -
Health care experts say that confirmed deaths represent a fraction of the true number of deaths due to COVID because of limited testing. -
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As school districts around Central Ohio drop their mask mandates, Columbus City Schools will keep their facial covering requirement in place. -
New research out of New York found the protection of the vaccine against infection in kids ages 5 to 11 dropped from 68% to 12%. -
Columbus Public Health announced today that it is recommending that the mask requirement in Columbus and Worthington end on March 7. -
Doctors and health researchers are looking to testing rates, case rates – and intuition – to determine when they'll feel comfortable mingling maskless indoors. -
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff says masks and vaccinations are still important tools to fight COVID-19. -
The Bexley City Council has dropped the city's mask mandate, effectively immediately. Two more Central Ohio school districts are making similar moves.
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COVID-19 vaccinations for children younger than 5 could start right after the Juneteenth holiday. -
Despite the nation reaching the grim milestone of 1 million COVID deaths, ODH Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff says Ohio is doing "well" compared to previous spikes. -
The Food and Drug Administration expanded authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine to enable kids ages 5 to 11 who were vaccinated at least five months ago to get a third shot. -
Politics, religion, distrust and disinformation all play a role. "I've realized that there's no convincing somebody once they have their mind made up," says a social worker in Beaumont, Texas. -
Starting on Monday, May 9, students faculty and staff not showing any COVID symptoms will no longer have to submit to weekly testing. -
Small businesses all over Ohio have suffered financially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But they’ve also struggled with big decisions – often with political overtones – about how to keep their customers and employees safe. -
The company says a low-dose version of its vaccine triggers an immune response in children ages 6 months to less than 6 years equivalent to what has protected older children and adults. -
With the BA.2 subvariant of omicron pushing infection rates up, many are reaching for at-home rapid tests. Here's what experts say on how best to use them. -
Citing a rise in COVID cases, Capital University is reinstating a mask mandate inside all campus buildings effective immediately. -
The more contagious omicron subvariant BA.2 is getting more and more people sick in Central Ohio, but Columbus Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts said those who have studied COVID over the last two years expected the uptick.
