Jon Husted said of the 1.4 million PUA unemployment claims, 796,000 were flagged for potential fraud. The state is now seeing about 42.5% of the school districts having in-person learning five days a week, DeWine said.DeWine said ICU patients are improving with 1 of 4 patients in ICU having COVID-19.DeWine said cases are leveling off in the state, but are still higher than he’d like to see them and higher than where the state has been through most of the pandemic.It’s a $50 million investment by the state that will be paid for with CARES Act funds. These will be distributed to local health departments, who will decide how the tests are used in the community.
The BinaxNow COVID-19 rapid antigen test can give results in about 15 minutes.
He mentioned the possibility of moving it to 11 pm, but he did not indicate when that might happen. We had state after state did that during the pandemic,” DeWine said.Īt some point in the future, DeWine said, he will consider changing the curfew to reduce the impact on businesses. The best experts said to close bars, to close restaurants. The first National Guardsmen should begin arriving at hospitals on Monday.Technically the curfew covers people, not places or businesses, but the real impact is on businesses that are traditionally open late like bars and restaurants.ĭeWine said originally he had been advised by the Trump administration to shut down bars and restaurants completely to limit transmission of the coronavirus. He said health experts are expecting a regular flu season this year since not as many people are wearing masks. Because of the number of people routinely wearing masks last year, flu numbers were low. He said nearly 1.5 million Ohioans have received their booster shot during the same time period.ĭeWine said the flu would be a larger problem for hospitals this year than during last season. He said he was encouraged by the recent number of people who have received their first vaccine shot over the last six weeks, which was nearly 400,000 people. Flu season has almost started."ĭeWine said 95 percent of the COVID-19 cases in hospitals are people that unvaccinated. "We are now at a very, very high level of the delta number of cases, the more contagious omicron is spreading in Ohio like it has everywhere else. He said it was occurring all over the state, according to hospital administrators he spoke with on Friday morning. and going back at midnight on a daily basis. Twenty-two months of this pandemic has taken its toll on our healthcare workers."ĭeWine said nurses are regularly coming home from work at 4 p.m.
"Earlier in the pandemic, our concern was about beds, it was about space," DeWine said. The state will also be working with a staffing agency to find healthcare workers from other, less affected states to make up for shortages at Ohio hospitals. The other 900 will be deployed around the state to help with other hospital duties like food, transportation and hospital environmental factors. He said 150 members of the guard with medical experience will be deployed to the northern areas of the state with the highest surge rates. The order made was in response to staffing issues and the large surge of COVID-19 patients affecting hospitals.ĭeWine made the announcement during a Friday press conference. Mike DeWine has ordered over 1,050 members of the Ohio National Guard be deployed to hospitals in the state.
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