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Duwve, from North Olmsted in suburban Cleveland, is a public health director for South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control. She worked previously as chief medical officer with the Indiana Department of Health and medical director for the department’s Division of Public Health and Preparedness. … [Read more...] about Ohio governor’s pick for health dept director withdraws name

State leaders also announced Thursday that a plan is in the works for distributing a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available. They stressed, however, that there is no confirmed date for when such a vaccine will be available to the general public. That plan will prioritize high-risk individuals, frontline health care workers and critical infrastructure employees when limited doses of the vaccine first arrive, said Stephen White, the state's immunization director. … [Read more...] about S. Carolina public health director no longer headed to Ohio

Oxford police cited six men who attended a house party near Miami University on Saturday for violating the state’s mass gathering and quarantine ordinance. Bodycam footage shows an officer arriving at a home near the campus and finding men without masks on the porch. … [Read more...] about Ohio College Students Throw Party After Several Test Positive For Coronavirus

Two months later, the contract between GM and the UAW expired and forty-nine thousand autoworkers nationwide walked off the job, embarking on a forty-day strike, the longest such walkout in half a century. Through September and October, negotiations dragged on as picketers stood outside the empty Lordstown plant holding signs and chanting slogans, hoping the new contract might bring it back to life. When the agreement was ratified, though, it was revealed that GM had used Lordstown and two other plants as negotiating chips. In return for a concession to close all three permanently, GM sweetened the financial pot for UAW employees at its remaining facilities. … [Read more...] about Ohio Auto Workers Watch a Way of Life Circle the Drain

"As a default," he added, "all students, faculty and staff should expect the same sort of comprehensive approach that is in place this fall -- including testing, contact tracing and personal behaviors such as face masks, physical distancing and hand-washing." … [Read more...] about Ohio State University canceled spring break 2021 because of Covid-19