In late October of last year, Kathleen Hagedorn, her husband Peter and their son Wyatt all fell ill with COVID-19. While Kathleen and her son’s symptoms
Ohio is now into its fourth month of distributing COVID-19 vaccines, an effort that's helped the state relax some restrictions and finally look forward to
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Ohio s restrictions and guidelines around COVID-19 have changed tremendously since the governor issued his first public health orders last March. As part of WOSU’s A Year Of COVID series, we asked readers what questions they still had about the pandemic and the state s response.
Reader Adam Leeds sent in this question:
Does Ohio still have a ban on mass gatherings?
The short answer is yes. Ohio may have ended its stay-at-home order and canceled the nightly curfew, but the ban on “mass gatherings” remains in place.
Under the most recent public health order from the Ohio Department of Health, Ohioans are prohibited from holding “all public and private gatherings of greater than 10 people” outside of their home or place of residence.
Faced with a governor who appears intent on holding school districts to a coronavirus vaccine agreement, Columbus City School leaders appear just as set on
It's almost been a year since the coronavirus pandemic reached Ohio. WOSU is taking a look at what we've learned, what's changed and where we go from here.