Source: Health Policy Institute of Ohio
Coronavirus deaths during the 10-month-old pandemic hit five figures on January 15 as the state reported 67 additional fatalities to raise the death toll to 10,057 (Source: “Grim Milestone: Ohio Surpasses 10,000 COVID-19 Deaths,” The Columbus Dispatch, January 15, 2021).
With a large majority of the deaths among seniors, the state targeted its opening salvos of vaccine doses to at-risk Ohioans in skilled-care nursing homes and then to other older Ohioans.
COVID-19 deaths accelerated throughout December 2020 and into January 2021, with more than one-third of all fatalities being reported in the past six weeks.