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Disease: COVID-19: Virus strain: SARS-CoV-2: Location: Ohio, U.S. Index case: Cuyahoga County: Arrival date: January 2, 2020: Confirmed cases: 3,741,277: Hospitalized cases: 151,183: Critical cases: 15,792: Recovered: 3,684,603
- 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
Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic in Ohio. Stay current on the state of the pandemic with daily metrics on vaccine distribution, coronavirus case counts by state and county, plus how the government is spending to boost the economy. Latest update on Jul 23
Mar 11, 2021 · Ohio would count nearly 1 million cases and more than 17,000 deaths from COVID-19 — the virus that changed every part of our lives. ONCE IN A CENTURY VIRUS. Gov. Mike DeWine declared a state of emergency on March 9, 2020.
COVID-19 has claimed more than 6.9 million lives globally. That includes more than 1 million U.S. residents and more than 42,000 Ohioans. The Ohio Department of Health’s focus from day one of the COVID-19 pandemic was to save lives.
Mar 18, 2022 · March 18, 2022. Despite the destruction of the deadly COVID-19 virus, a global pandemic led to some long-term, positive changes for health and health care. Society was forced to adapt to a new reality and, in some ways, these adaptations will benefit us all for many years, long after the threat of COVID-19 has faded.