Ohioâs cases per 100K trending in wrong direction
Sign outside the new COVID-19 vaccination clinic (Source: WVIR)
By Jared Goffinet | April 15, 2021 at 1:49 PM EDT - Updated April 16 at 6:46 AM
COLUMBUS, Ohio (FOX19) - Ohio is going in the wrong way on the road to lifting health orders.
The benchmark to lift health orders is 50 cases per 100,000 residents for two weeks, Gov. Mike DeWine has said.
Ohio is at 200 cases per 100,000 people as of Thursday. Four weeks ago, the number was 144 per 100,000.
âWhat weâre seeing in Ohio is a strong variant that is multiplying very quickly and is more contagious than the virus weâve seen in the past, but we have hope, and hope is the vaccine,â said Gov. DeWine. âVaccination is how we get out of this.â