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Question of the Day By KANTELE FRANKO - Associated Press - Wednesday, April 14, 2021
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A former Ohio State University student health director has surrendered his medical license after being accused of failing to report several complaints in the mid-1990s about sexual misconduct by Richard Strauss, the university doctor now accused of abusing young men for two decades.
The state medical board citation against former director Ted Grace made him the first person to face potential discipline in relation to Ohio State’s failure to stop misconduct by Strauss, who died in 2005. A hearing was scheduled for next week, but Grace permanently surrendered his Ohio license under an agreement that was approved and confirmed but not released Wednesday by the medical board.
Admin who didn t report OSU doc s misconduct cedes license
KANTELE FRANKO, Associated Press
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) A former Ohio State University student health director has surrendered his medical license after being accused of failing to report several complaints in the mid-1990s about sexual misconduct by Richard Strauss, the university doctor now accused of abusing young men for two decades.
The state medical board citation against former director Ted Grace made him the first person to face potential discipline in relation to Ohio State s failure to stop misconduct by Strauss, who died in 2005. A hearing was scheduled for next week, but Grace permanently surrendered his Ohio license under an agreement that was approved and confirmed but not released Wednesday by the medical board.
Illinois on Tuesday temporarily halted shots of Johnson & Johnson s popular one-dose vaccine for COVID-19 on the advice of federal health authorities who plan to meet Wednesday and review six U.S. cases of a rare and severe-type blood clot among the 6.8 million J&J vaccine recipients.
A statement from the Illinois Department of Public Health said the department instructed all providers of COVID-19 vaccines in the state to immediately discontinue use of the J&J vaccine at this time out of an abundance of caution.
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State officials indicated that the temporary suspension of J&J vaccine wouldn t significantly hamper efforts to vaccinate the population in the short term as officials try to reach herd immunity by getting at least 70% to 80% of Illinoisans vaccinated.
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Despite shelving around 2,300 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, the Sangamon County Department of Public Health won’t have trouble supplying planned vaccination clinics in the coming weeks, according to department director Gail O’Neill.
The county is following guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Illinois Department of Public Health to pause the vaccine’s use as federal authorities investigate whether there’s a causal link between the vaccine and rare blood clotting reported in six people out of nearly 7 million Americans who got a Johnson & Johnson shot.
The Sangamon County health department had been using the single-dose shots to vaccinate residents in rural and other hard-to-reach communities with a mobile unit staffed by the Illinois National Guard. The department continued with its planned schedule of visits Tuesday, with a site set up at Abundant Faith Christian Center in Springfield, but used Pf
Dr. Ted W. Grace failed to report Strauss actions in the 1990s and
made a false statement related to the practice of medicine,” a report issued in March shows. Strauss, who died by suicide in 2005 in California, has been accused of sexually abusing hundreds of former students while he worked for Ohio State between 1978 and 1998.
On Wednesday, Grace volunteered to surrender his license to the State Medical Board of Ohio and board members accepted it as part of a settlement agreement, Jerica Stewart, a board spokeswoman said via email. The agreement, which wasn t yet available Wednesday, means Grace will forgo an administrative hearing that was originally scheduled for April 20 through April 23, Stewart said.