Employees have been put on administrative leave, resigned or have been reassigned as an investigation continues into how thousands of deaths have been left out of the state's coronavirus numbers.
The DeWine administration and the legislature have a three-fold task: to modernize Ohio’s public health laws and system; to bolster the Ohio Health Department’s resources; and to give the state greater powers in a health emergency to mandate timely and accurate health reporting and deployment of scarce resources, writes the editorial board.