Ohio Department Of Health

The Ohio Department of Health has changed the way K-12 schools should notify parents about COVID cases in their buildings. ODH said it is not worthwhile for schools to alert parents of individual cases of COVID in classrooms or buildings anymore.

The Ohio Department of Health blames an electronic lab processing error for an undercount today.

Hospitalizations are down in Northern Ohio but going up in Southern Ohio.

Ohio Dept of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff said layered strategies are the best strategies.

The Ohio Department of Health said it will divert incoming rapid COVID test kits to K-12 schools, colleges and universities

Medical professionals say it’s true that having COVID gives you some immunity, but doesn’t make you impervious to being re-infected later. In fact, the state’s health department is tracking cases of re-infection.

Columbus Public Health is currently out of at-home COVID-19 test kits but anticipates getting more from The Ohio Department of Health In January.

State health officials said the ongoing COVID pandemic in Ohio continues to worsen and could do so even more as winter sets in.

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) announced that the COVID-19 variant called omicron is in Ohio with two cases in central Ohio.

COVID hospitalizations are the highest they’ve been since January before vaccines were widely available. Health officials say while the Omicron variant has not been detected yet in Ohio, it's a matter of when, not if, but initial research shows considerable protection from the vaccine series.