COVID vaccine

Hamilton County’s 513 Relief Bus is back on the road for the first time in over a year. Officials unveiled the permanent Equity and Resources Mobile Tech Bus Thursday after piloting the idea in 2021.

The University of Cincinnati study found communities with low vaccination rates tended to have the fewest hospitals, health clinics and other infrastructure. They also tended to have fewer health care professionals.

The BA.2 subvariant is causing a big surge in some parts of the world, and officials have already confirmed the more infectious variant is in the U.S.

Gov. Mike DeWine has deployed more than a thousand Guard personnel to health care facilities.

In the past seven days, Hamilton County has averaged more than 513 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people.

The survey was conducted just as vaccines were approved for younger children.

DeWine said government shouldn’t tell businesses how to run their operations, and that he’s also opposed the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate on employers of over 100 workers that’s now in the courts. Ohio is among the states suing over that rule.

State officials confirmed the first two cases of omicron in Ohio over the weekend. Hamilton County Health Commissioner Greg Kesterman says the best way to protect yourself is to get one of the three approved COVID-19 vaccines.

Hamilton County is averaging slightly more than 294 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people. Sixteen people died from the virus in the last seven days.

Matt Huffman (R-Lima) says the anti-vaccine mandate bill could be the right vehicle to tackle COVID-19 vaccine policies,