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Doctors are on high alert throughout the state of Ohio tracking all sorts of respiratory illnesses from COVID to the flu and RSV.

Nurses watch the unvaccinated die. Partisans refuse to get the shot. And experts see no end to pandemic as omicron surge exits Northeast Ohio.

Ohio targets minority vaccination as state exceeds 900,000 total coronavirus cases Gov. Mike DeWine Local health departments have been tasked with prioritizing underserved and minority populations when distributing the state's limited number of COVID-19 vaccines, Gov. Mike DeWine said at the coronavirus update on Tuesday, Feb. 2. "The pandemic has highlighted inequities in our health care system," DeWine said. "There are Ohioans who simply do not have equal access to health care." Vaccine education targeted at minority communities is planned with a series of virtual town halls beginning in ...

Jan 6, 2021 COLUMBUS– Teachers and other school employees, people older than 65, and individuals with severe medical disorders will be included in the second phase of coronavirus vaccine distribution in the state, to start in about two weeks, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday. About 2.2 million people are in this second group, and the state expects about 100,000 vaccines for the first week of what’s known as Phase 1B, with the amount to be ramped up. The governor said the goals of the first and second phases of the vaccine remain the same: to save lives and protect the most vulnerable, t...