coronavirus

The Ohio Department of Health said shipments of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for children ages six months to five years old could arrive as soon as Monday.

Small businesses all over Ohio have suffered financially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But they’ve also struggled with big decisions — often with political overtones — about how to keep their customers and employees safe.

The candidates challenging incumbent Gov. Mike DeWine for Republican nomination in next month's Ohio primary say he mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic.

This is not the first time BA.2 has been detected in Louisville.

The agency hasn't reported a single case of COVID-19 and hit a 97% vaccination rate by the end of February 2021.

Ohio organizations that provide mental health and addiction care are finding it harder to recruit and retain workers, even as demand for their services increases due to the opioid crisis and COVID-19 pandemic.

Daily reporting will give way to weekly reporting, and reporting by schools will be changing, too.

During the omicron peak, there were several days in January when the Indiana Department of Health reported new cases surpassing 17,000. On Tuesday in Indiana, there were just 302 new daily cases.

Kentucky’s chief public health expert says all indicators related to COVID-19 are heading in the right direction. During the week ending on March 6 there were 12,010 newly reported cases of the virus and the seven-day positivity rate was just over 6%. Both metrics were lower than in the previous week ending Feb. 27.

The Buckeye State ranks fourth in the nation in the number of these excess deaths. Only California, Texas and Florida have recorded greater numbers of excess deaths than Ohio, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationally, the pandemic has brought more than 1 million excess deaths.