Ohio Dept of Health Director Stephanie McCloud
There’s a jump in the state’s latest numbers of people who have died from COVID-19. But there’s a reason for that.
The state’s coronavirus website shows 752 deaths since Tuesday, the last time the numbers updated. But Ohio Department of Health Director Stephanie McCloud says 428 of those are Ohioans who died out of state.
“They are Ohioans who have listed their primary residence as Ohio but they’ve gone somewhere. We don’t know if it was short term, long term, could be snowbirds who have gone to Florida. We don’t know where they contracted the virus but they passed in another state, McCloud explains.
Ohioans have a relatively new COVID-19 metric to track, and it s not easy to find or calculate.
It s called a case incidence rate: the number of new cases reported in two weeks per 100,000 residents. Gov. Mike DeWine is using it to evaluate when health orders, including a statewide mask mandate, should be rolled back or lifted.
DeWine has been showing this number once a week during his press conferences since the first week of January. But it s not easy to find on the state s coronavirus website. And it s near impossible to calculate with the information the Ohio Department of Health makes available daily.
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