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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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The at-home tests are expected to be delivered by USPS later this month. The White House said the site is in "beta testing" and will be launched formally Wednesday. -
As the omicron variant delivers a spike in coronavirus cases around Ohio, employers and workers are sparring over who pays for time off when a worker gets sick or has to quarantine. -
Instead of selling tickets to the general public, organizers announced Monday that they would invite groups of spectators to attend the games in person. -
The Biden administration announced Friday that Americans can begin ordering free at-home COVID-19 tests starting Jan. 19. Orders can be placed using the website COVIDtests.gov. -
Other Columbus MLK Day events remain virtual because of the pandemic. -
The White House announced 1,000 military medical personnel will go to Ohio and five other states in the coming days. Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said some of them will be providing additional medical staff for the Cleveland Clinic. -
Ohio Dept of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said layered strategies are the best strategies. -
But the court upheld a separate mandate for almost all employees at hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that receive federal funds. -
Ohio National Guard members began helping with operations and COVID testing at the new CAS testing site on Monday. -
But the Ohio Hospital Association says those services come with a steep cost.
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While approval would only be for those populations, an infectious disease specialist from Mount Carmel Medical Group says may be good for everyone. -
If approved, this would be the second booster shot Moderna has issued for people ages 18 and up. -
Cleveland Clinic detected the highly contagious subvariant in its labs a few weeks ago that is causing a surge of cases in Europe. But health officials say it does not seem to be driving any local surges in new cases yet. -
Pfizer and BioNTech are planning to ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a second COVID-19 booster shot for people age 65 and older. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentThere were a lot of reasons to get out of the health care field after the pandemic hit. -
In those two years, more than 2 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ohio, and thousands more are unconfirmed and unknown. -
Millions of people in the U.S. have lost someone they love to COVID-19, and advocates hope to have those losses marked each year on the first Monday in March. -
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. -
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%. -
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff says masks and vaccinations are still important tools to fight COVID-19.
