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A technician from the Findlay College of Pharmacy fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer vaccine at a clinic in Reynoldsburg in February 2021.
After falling to levels not seen in over a year, COVID-19 cases in Ohio have more than doubled in the past couple of weeks due to the latest highly contagious Delta variant. And doctors are warning unvaccinated people that they, and their unvaccinated children, are at great risk of catching it.
The Ohio Department of Health’s Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff says anyone who is unvaccinated at this point is at great risk of contracting COVID.
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When Justin Shaw heard that Ohio last year experienced the highest number of antisemitic incidents in more than 40 years, he wasn t surprised.
The director of Jewish community relations at the area nonprofit JewishColumbus noted that incidents have been rising for the past few years, and with COVID-19, it s become easier for people to harass Jewish people online. There s been more propaganda, more rhetoric, said Shaw, whose organization is focused on philanthropy and supporting community programs. Zoom-bombings have been more of an issue, and to be honest, I think some of it is underreported.
There likely were more incidents, he said, than even appeared in the report released by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) last week, which says 43 were disclosed in 2020.
On Thursday, Ohio reported nearly 3,000 new cases in a 24 hour period. Author: Hope Sloop, Laura Caso Published: 3:03 PM EDT April 8, 2021 Updated: 1:12 PM EDT April 9, 2021
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During his Thursday afternoon press conference, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that one-third of Ohioans have now received at least their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Despite the increased number of vaccinations, the exciting news is slightly overshadowed by rising coronavirus cases within the state. It is clear that Ohio and the nation are enduring another wave of COVID-19. This time it is being driven by new variants of the original virus. The variants are more contagious and more deadly, said Chief Medical Officer for the Ohio Department of Health Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff.
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The Ohio Department of Health Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff says the 7-day case average was more than 1800 this week compared with 1500 last week. And on Wednesday, that spiked to almost 2500 new cases.
“Ohio remains in a race with a virus that is more contagious and is right back on our heels.”
Vanderhoff says many of the highest case counts are in northern Ohio, and that Michigan’s positivity rate is 3 ½ times higher than Ohio’s. Gov. Mike DeWine said the statewide mask mandate would end when there are 50 cases per 100,000 Ohioans over two weeks. Now the statewide case rate is more than three times that.