Cincinnati to change mask declaration to mirror CDC guidance
CDC: Fully vaccinated people can go maskless in most indoor settings
Scripps National Team
and last updated 2021-05-14 14:32:30-04
CINCINNATI â Cincinnati s emergency mask declaration will change in light of new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that allow fully vaccinated adults to go maskless in most indoor settings, Mayor John Cranley announced Friday.
The CDC guidelines released Thursday allow adults to ditch the mask indoors and outdoors. Locations like health care facilities will continue to follow their specific infection control recommendations. Masks should also be worn while traveling on planes, trains and buses and in transportation hubs.
Ohio is launching a targeted deployment of naloxone, sending 60,000 doses of the antidote for an opioid overdose to 23 counties. The idea is to get ahead of a usual summertime rise in overdoses. Yet one of its partners in distributing the naloxone questions the equity of the plan, calling it racially biased.
Harm Reduction Ohio says the state’s plan excludes some areas that have high overdose death rates for Black Ohioans, including parts of Cincinnati and Columbus. It also charges the plan gives an insufficient amount of the drug to rural areas.
The heart of the problem: The two sides use different ways to measure the impact of overdoses.
Ohio s plan to distribute an anti-OD drug triggers questions, claims of racial bias Terry DeMio, Cincinnati Enquirer
Ohio is launching a targeted deployment of naloxone, sending 60,000 doses of the antidote for an opioid overdose to 23 counties. The idea is to get ahead of a usual summertime rise in overdoses. Yet one of its partners in distributing the naloxone questions the equity of the plan, calling it racially biased.
Harm Reduction Ohio says the state’s plan excludes some areas that have high overdose death rates for Black Ohioans, including parts of Cincinnati and Columbus. It also charges the plan gives an insufficient amount of the drug to rural areas.