COVID-19 Update: Regional Coalition Formed April 16, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Governor DeWine also announced he will work closely with the Governors of Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, and Kentucky to reopen the region’s economy in a coordinated way. The states will review four factors as they reopen their economies: the number of cases in [...]
COVID-19 Update:Governor DeWine Discussed State’s Plan for Reopening Businesses April 16, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)— Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Dr. Amy Acton, MD, MPH, provided an update on the number of COVID-19 cases in Ohio and discussed how the state will develop its plan to reopen the economy. “Ohioans have done a great [...]
COVID-19 Update: Census 2020 April 15, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Governor DeWine reminded Ohioans to complete the 2020 Census. The U.S. Constitution mandates a census is held every 10 years to help determine how federal funds will be divided among the states. This funding pays for expenses such as road repairs and food assistance programs; it [...]
COVID-19 Update: Prison Update April 15, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Governor DeWine announced today that he is approving the early release of 105 prison inmates in Ohio who had been scheduled to be released in the next 90 days. Last week, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) Director Annette Chambers-Smith recommended to the Correctional Institution [...]
COVID-19 Update: Testing Partnership April 15, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Health systems worldwide have struggled due to a critical shortage of test kit components, including the swabs used to collect samples and the sterile solution needed to transport the swabs, called viral transport media (VTM). Governor DeWine announced that a team of Ohio State University researchers [...]
COVID-19 Update:First Responder PPE April 15, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced the expansion of Ohio’s partnership with Battelle to extend their sterilization services to law enforcement agencies and EMS providers. The Ohio Department of Public Safety and Battelle have now partnered to sterilize N-95 masks for all of Ohio’s first [...]
COVID-19 Update: CARES Act Payments April 15, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Lt. Governor Husted announced that by the end of next week, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) will be able to begin processing the additional $600-a-week payments authorized by the federal CARES Act. ODJFS also plans to launch an online tool [...]
COVID-19 Update:Deferred Elective Procedures April 15, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Governor DeWine announced today that he has asked the Ohio Hospital Association to begin developing a plan to begin treating patients whose non-COVID-19 elective procedures were delayed or deferred due to the ongoing pandemic. The Ohio Department of Health previously ordered that elective surgeries be [...]
COVID-19 Update:Essential Job Openings April 14, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Lt. Governor Jon Husted announced that 667 critical employers have listed around 41,000 essential job openings on coronavirus.ohio.gov/jobsearch. “These employers have created safe environments for their employees,” said Lt. Governor Husted. “These employers need you if you can answer the call.” Examples of companies that [...]
COVID-19 Update:First Responder Safety April 14, 2020 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—To protect our first responders and to ensure consistency across the state, Dr. Amy Acton announced that a new order has been issued that requires local health departments to provide to their jurisdictions’ dispatch agency or agencies the names and addresses of COVID-19-positive individuals. Dispatch [...]
