But on Thursday, when asked specifically about the state s funeral-home employees, DeWine said, People who do embalming I think make a very strong case and we’re actually reviewing that right now. We don’t have anything to announce. We’ll see what the experts say. And we’ll get back to you on that as far as our funeral directors. But we hear them.
Funeral-home workers have high exposure to COVID-19
One issue the funeral-home industry has with the vaccination plan, is that like front-line health-care workers and EMS responders (who were included in Ohio’s Phase 1A) they also consider themselves a group that has a high exposure to COVID-19.