Ohio had at least 17,000 more deaths than average in 2020: The Wake Up for Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
Posted Jan 19, 2021
Here is the age breakdown for Ohio deaths in 2019 and 2020. The 2020 data is preliminary.Rich Exner, cleveland.com
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Death increase: The number of deaths from all causes last year in Ohio far exceeded previous years, with an increase well above the 9,500 that have been attributed to the coronavirus, Rich Exner reports. Preliminary data from the Ohio Department of Health shows that 139,072 Ohioans died in 2020, up 17,225 from the average of 121,847 over the past five years.
Prosecutors say recreation department employee Robert Fitzpatrick conspired to commit theft of federal dollars. Author: Mark Naymik (WKYC) Updated: 8:24 PM EST January 15, 2021
CLEVELAND
The video above is from our previous reporting on Jan. 13, 2021
Federal prosecutors today laid out charges against a city employee who has close ties to Cleveland Councilman Ken Johnson, who is at the center of an FBI investigations first revealed this week by 3News.
The charges say Robert Fitzpatrick for years signed timesheets each month as documentation for work he performed for a councilman and for which he was paid directly from a councilman’s pocket.
But the prosecutors say Fitzpatrick never actually performed the work nor got paid. Prosecutors say the councilman used the signed timesheets as a receipt for ward services to obtain $1,200 expense reimbursement from the city. The filing does not detail how much the councilman obtained through the sch
736 new COVID cases, but zero deaths Friday in Monroe County From staff reports, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
ROCHESTER, NY This is the week that the vaccine arrived. The initial 10 recipients at Strong Hospital received the first of two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Monday afternoon. Tuesday saw the public announcement. Wednesday saw the county acknowledge the challenge of overcoming mistrust in some sections of the community who have been hardest hit by the virus.
An update from County Executive Adam Bello and Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza scheduled for Thursday has been delayed until 2 p.m. Friday. Expect to hear more about the regional vaccination plans, distribution to health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities.
Created: December 15, 2020 07:16 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) It was a historic day in the Greater Rochester area, as COVID-19 vaccines have already begun to be given to a few dozen people who work in high-risk areas of the hospital systems.
News10NBC was at Rochester General Hospital where the first round of doses were given out Tuesday afternoon.
Those first doses were delivered before noon, and within hours had been injected into a lucky few to protect them from coronavirus from this point forward.
It took some waiting, but the injection of the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at RGH took less than 10 seconds. Christian Gardner. a Registered Nurse at the hospital, was the first one in line.