The Centers for Disease Control is calling on all states to encourage parents to get their kids the needed vaccines for school. The Ohio Department of Health says before the start of the last school year 86.2 % of kindergarteners had the recommended vaccines for them to start school. Which is slightly lower than the year before, and nearly 90% before the pandemic. State health experts say that parents have a lack of fear of diseases like measles, whooping cough, and polio as a threat to children's health.
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Ohio Lawmakers are not going to make the COVID vaccine part of the required vaccinations for children. They believe is should be the parents choice if they want their kids to get the vaccine or not.
Allen County has now been designated a community at a “medium level of COVID-19 Transmission” BY THE Centers for Disease Control. They are now using “COVID-!9 Community Levels” to determine if or where a mask is recommended to be worn. As of today, Allen County has a case rate of just over 35 cases per 100-thousand residents. While the advisory has been lifted and residents can go about their daily lives without wearing a mask local businesses and agencies have the right to still request that you use one on their premises.
CDC put out guidance saying healthy people don't need to get tested if they have come in contact with the virus, rather only those with symptoms and the vulnerable. Gov. Mike DeWine says Ohio is not changing their protocols and still encourage people without symptoms to get tested for COVID-19. He says that is a way to beat the virus and a reason they allow anyone to get a test at one of the many National Guard pop up test sites.