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LATEST UPDATES
• On Thursday, the state canceled its Ohio Public Health Advisory system, which launched in July 2020 to assess the degree of COVID-19 spread by county. In the last map released May 20, most area counties were in Level 2 (orange), while Van Wert County was in Level 1 (yellow).
• The Ohio Department of Health updated statistics for new COVID-19 cases at area long-term care centers over the previous week.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, center, talks to Youngstown Mayor Jamael Tito Brown and city Health Commissioner Erin Bishop during a Thursday visit to the Covelli Centre, which is being used by the city as a COVID-19 vaccination site.
Staff photo / David Skolnick
YOUNGSTOWN With the number of people in the state getting COVID-19 vaccines slowing down, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown urged Ohioans to get inoculated.
“Most people I know that haven’t gotten vaccines have some fear about it, and there’s no real evidence out there that people should be afraid of this vaccine,” Brown said Thursday after a visit to the Covelli Centre, where the Youngstown City Health District had a COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
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YOUNGSTOWN With the number of people in the state getting COVID-19 vaccines slowing down, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown urged Ohioans to get inoculated.
“Most people I know that haven’t gotten vaccines have some fear about it, and there’s no real evidence out there that people should be afraid of this vaccine,” Brown said Thursday after a visit to the Covelli Centre, where the Youngstown City Health District had a COVID-19 vaccination clinic.
Brown, D-Ohio, said the number of people wanting the vaccine is down nationally.
“There’s still lots of people who need to get vaccinated,” he said. “There’s no question getting vaccinated is safe. There’s no question this vaccine is effective. We’ll never get our economy back operating on all cylinders until we get most everybody vaccinated. That’s our mission.”
The number Ohio is using to determine if all coronavirus health orders will be dropped went down on Thursday for the second week in a row.
This week, the statewide average number of cases per capita during the previous two weeks, also known as incidence rate, was 155.6 per 100,000 residents, down from 185.8 last week.
But it s still not anywhere near low enough to meet the threshold that will lift Ohio s coronavirus health orders.
Last week, the number dropped for the first time in a month after the number had been increasing since the end of March. The rate in previous weeks, in order, has been 200, 183.7, 167.1 and 146.9. The number is updated weekly on Thursdays.