Source: Health Policy Institute of Ohio
A record one in every 46 Ohioans was diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past two weeks, with the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) Director Bruce Vanderhoff, MD, saying the virus “will be a part of our health care landscape for the foreseeable future” (Source: “Record Number of Ohioans Contract COVID-19,” Youngstown Vindicator, January 21, 2022).
On January 20, Dr. Vanderhoff said that despite “signs of improvement in some of Ohio’s first and hardest-hit areas of this historic and record-shattering surge of COVID-19 cases,” people shouldn’t “breathe such a sigh of relief that they think this is entirely over. We’re still dealing with this surge. COVID-19 is not going away.”
It was the sixth consecutive week that Ohio hit a record high number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents.