The top health official in the state says there has been some progress in the battle against COVID-19 but there is still much to be done.
Ohio Department of Health Director Doctor Bruce Vanderhoff says that hospitalizations of Covid cases have dropped by 25% in the past 16 days. While that is good, hospitals are still being strained by the pandemic. The National Guard is still moving around the state assisting as the omicron variant remains rampant hitting the state in waves. While numbers are decreasing, they remain at high transmission levels.
Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff explains, “Last July we hit a low of 19 cases per 100,000 persons. This week even after some of the declines that we’ve described, that number is still more than 1,700 cases per 100,000 persons.”
Vanderhoff points out that the CDC defines a high transmission spread as anything over 100 cases per 100,000 persons. Ohio’s cases are 17 times that rate.
