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Shoppers leave Walmart in Ashtabula Township, Ohio, in the early morning on Black Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. (Warren Dillaway/The Star-Beacon via AP)
(CN) Despite the glimmer of hope offered by the impending arrival of a vaccine, Ohio’s Covid-19 infection and death numbers continue to escalate after the Thanksgiving holiday, with more than 10,000 new cases reported on Wednesday alone.
The state has recorded an average of more than 7,000 new daily infections since Nov. 1, along with an average of 65 deaths per day over the last three weeks.
According to the Ohio Department of Health’s Covid-19 data tracker, 7,298 Ohioans have died from the respiratory virus to date, with over 50% of those deaths among people over the age of 80. Each of the 88 counties in the state has at least one confirmed Covid-19 death.