COVID-19 pandemic

The American Folklife Center recently released a collection of interviews with Central Appalachian child care workers recounting their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data shows that Ohio students have gotten back to where they were before the pandemic when it comes to reading, but despite some recovery, they remain behind in math.

Five years after COVID-19 started spreading in Ohio, Dr. Mysheika Roberts, health commissioner of Columbus Public Health, is reflecting on the community's response.

At the Democratic National Convention, someone who played a key role in Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s administration said she's thinking of running for that office.

School districts like Western Local in southern Ohio received millions of dollars in federal COVID relief aid. As those funds dry up, they face looming cuts.

Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff says COVID-19 rates have increased in recent weeks, but they are increasing from historically low levels.

What started as a dream quickly took a sharp turn when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and students were sent home in March 2020 to quarantine after spending only seven months in college. And it's colored their entire time on campus.

By some estimates, chronic absenteeism doubled during the pandemic. Now, about halfway through the most "normal" school year since 2020, the situation hasn't improved in many places.

COVID-19 first entered the public consciousness about two years ago. It drew a lot of comparisons to another pandemic just over a hundred years earlier. WVXU's Bill Rinehart looks at the influenza wave that surfaced in 1918 and what lessons it has for us today.

In those two years, more than 2 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ohio, and thousands more are unconfirmed and unknown.