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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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Columbus health officials are encouraging residents to test for COVID before they gather for the July 4th holiday. -
Columbus Public Health will hold a COVID-19 vaccine clinic on Saturday with Pfizer pediatric doses for children ages 6 months and older. Other COVID vaccines and boosters will also be available. -
COVID-19 vaccines for kids six months and older are rolling out this week in Columbus. -
NPR talks to Claire Hannan, who has helped navigate vaccine rollouts in all 50 states, about some of the challenges involved in quickly getting shots out to millions of young kids. -
The COVID-19 vaccines for Ohio’s youngest children are expected to be approved in coming days, and Ohio’s Department of Health says that they are well supplied and well organized to provide the shots.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is lifting its COVID-19 testing requirement for airline travelers coming into the country. It's a major change for the travel industry. -
The study found that 6 months later, many people who had the Delta variant still had not regained their sense of smell. -
People who catch COVID may feel as if they won't get it again, at least not for a long time. Their immune system should be primed to fight it off in the future. Right? Well, let's see. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentFrom 2019 to 2020, alcohol induced deaths rose 25% nationally and 22% in Ohio. -
COVID-19 vaccinations for children younger than 5 could start right after the Juneteenth holiday.
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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.
