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Feb. 13, 2021: Ohio added about 1,125 deaths from recent months. Feb. 12, 2021: Ohio added about 2,500 deaths from recent months. Feb. 11, 2021: Ohio added about 650 deaths from recent...
- Early 2020: Ohio Shuts Down, Political Pressure Heats Up
- Summer 2020: Cases Steady, Ohioans Adjust to New Normal
- Fall/Winter 2020/2021: First Major Spike
- Spring/Summer 2021: Cases Dwindle, Vaccines Save Lives
- Summer/Fall 2021: Delta
- Late 2021-Present: Omicron
- Ohio’s Endemic Future
Wave: Jan. 2-June 8, 2020 Although Ohio announced its first COVID-19 casesin March, subsequent investigation by the Ohio Department of Health backdated Ohio’s earliest infections to Jan. 2. It was in March that Ohioans got their first taste of the next two years: health system stress from a deadly disease, closed businesses, virtual schooling, mask...
Slow period: June 9-Sept. 20, 2020 Summer brought Ohio a steady pace of COVID-19 infections, as daily onset cases hovered around 1,000 from late June to late September. Relatively low cases totals gave Ohioans room to adjust to life with COVID-19 as a concern. Treatments for the virus were improving, but vaccines were still months away. Among the h...
Wave: Sept. 21, 2020-March 9, 2021 Lower temperatures sent people indoors, lessened social distancing and spread the virus more easily. Cases started ticking up in late September at around 1,000 per day. They hit 2,000 by Oct. 12, then 3,000 on Oct. 23, and 4,000 on Oct. 28. Nov. 2 brought 6,000, then Ohio saw 9,000 cases per day a week later. And ...
Slow period: March 10-June 29, 2021 Vaccines rolled out to more and more people in the spring of last year, giving the most at-risk people and then all adults the ultimate way to protect themselves from the virus. New cases stayed around 1,000 and 2,000 per day, then they hit lows not seen since the pandemic’s earliest days. Cases dropped into the ...
Wave: June 30-Dec. 6, 2021 Cases started to tick up ever so slightly around Independence Day, driven by a new, more contagious variant called “delta.” First discovered in India, delta wreaked havoc in Ohio and the U.S. in the fall. Testing ramped up again, hospitals experienced a renewed level of stress, and deaths spiked. Local mask mandates came ...
Wave: Dec. 7, 2021 through present Delta’s destruction was short-lived, but not because it disappeared. Instead, it was replaced in December as Ohio’s dominant variant by the omicron variant, first detected in South Africa. Ohio State University scientistssequenced Ohio’s first omicron cases on Dec. 7. What followed was an intense spike in infectio...
Now in March, new cases in Ohio after the omicron wave have fallen near their lowest levels recorded. The state reported just 431 on Monday, for example, and just over 6,000 total last week. Infections haven’t been this low since July 2021. Columbus even lifted its mask mandate on Monday, as did Columbus City Schoolson Tuesday. This improvement is ...
- Ben Orner
Dec 30, 2021 · FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Dec. 30, 2021. Contact: ODH Office of Communications (614) 644-8562. Ohio Department of Health Aligns with Updated CDC Quarantine and Isolation Guidance.
Dec 28, 2021 · Updated: Dec 27, 2021 / 07:50 PM EST. (WKBN) – The number of new COVID-19 cases in Ohio on Monday, Dec. 27 is down from the big record-breaking numbers from last week. New cases on Dec. 27...
- Stan Boney
Nov 17, 2020 · Governor DeWine announced today that the Ohio Department of Health will be issuing a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. statewide curfew beginning on Thursday, November 19. The curfew will be in effect for 21 days. The curfew will not apply to those going to or from work, those who have an emergency, or those who need medical care.
The numbers of hospitalized Covid patients and deaths in the Henry County area have remained at about the same level. The test positivity rate in Henry County is very high. An average of 2 cases...
Apr 8, 2021 · On February 18, 2021, Ohio's chief medical officer, Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, stated that the new, more contagious form of COVID-19 has recently appeared across the state. The B.1.1.7 variant, also known as the United Kingdom variant, is perhaps the best-known mutation of the virus.
