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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 pandemic continues to rage in Ohio, as the state has seen records for COVID-19 hospitalizations every day since December 26. We take a look at how the state is handling the latest COVID surge. -
Students at three Columbus City Schools will learn remotely Monday, while all Reynoldsburg preschool and high schools will have virtual classes all week. -
The global spread of COVID-19 is often called a pandemic. Many public health officials, however, are predicting it may soon become endemic, but what does that mean? -
A new requirement for the spring semester, all students living in the residence halls and in sorority or fraternity houses will have to test once a week throughout the semester regardless of their vaccination status. -
Like Ohio’s hospitals, the lobby group for nursing homes reports many of those in the Buckeye State are short-staffed due to the surge in COVID cases. -
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said the record-high number of cases right now is driving record-high hospitalizations. He uses the word, “tsunami” when describing this surge, driven by the omicron variant. -
The National Veterans Memorial Museum will be closed through January 16, Ohio State is closing all concessions at athletic events, and multiple events throughout Central Ohio have been canceled due to the rise in COVID cases. -
Ohio and 26 other Republican-led states have sued to stop the mandates, saying OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, is overstepping its authority. -
Now, both the Pfizer and the Moderna booster shots can be given five months after the second dose of vaccine — down from six months. -
The two cases are in a preliminary posture, but how the court rules will very likely signal how these issues are ultimately resolved.
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Long lines of cars were back on the second day of public COVID-19 testing at a site in Cleveland, but the situation was more orderly than on Tuesday. -
The new at-home COVID treatment is currently available in limited quantities to states and territories. Some states will get as few as 120 courses of treatment at first. -
Vaccines still do a solid job at warding off hospitalization from omicron. So if you're young and healthy, why get a booster? Scientists explain how boosters help and the best timing to get one. -
The general who leads the Ohio National Guard said during a news briefing on Tuesday that just over half of Army National Guard members in the state are fully vaccinated. -
Healthcare workers continue to fight the all-out battle against the deadly coronavirus that has been going on for two years straight. -
Officials are turning people away from the free COVID-19 testing site that opened in Cleveland's University Circle Tuesday morning due to high demand. -
A major spike in Coronavirus cases throughout the state has nurses, doctors and other health officials very worried. They say we are headed into another deadly COVID winter, and if more Ohioans don't get vaccinated, the highly infectious omicron variant could lead to even more infections and hospitalizations, breaking last winter's records. -
The NFL has moved the Las Vegas Raiders game at Cleveland from Saturday to Monday due to a COVID-19 outbreak with the Browns. -
The agency implemented experts' advice because of a rare and sometimes fatal blood-clotting problem known as TTS. More than 16 million people in the U.S. have received a shot of the J&J vaccine. -
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center announced it will be postponing non-emergent, elective surgeries that require an overnight stay beginning January 3, 2021 citing an increase in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
