Ohio is second in the nation per capita in terms of the reported COVID-19 death rate over the last seven days, according to a database from The New York Times.
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.Nearly 30,000 Ohioans have died of COVID-19, including some 19,000 who died after federal officials first authorized use of COVID-19 vaccines for the public on Dec. 14, 2020. The data lags by several weeks, but about 86 Ohioans per day were dying of the disease in the first week of December 2021.The data reflects an unprecedented case spike in Ohio.
Tens of thousands of Ohioans are seeking PCR tests every day. Of those, more than 1 in 4 are coming back with positive results, according to data from the Ohio Department of Health. This is slightly down from its all-time high of 32% just before the new year. More than 6,500 Ohioans are in the hospital with COVID-19, another all-time high, up from about 2,300 in early November. About one in three people in a hospital in Ohio right now is there with COVID-19, according to data from the Ohio Hospital Association.
The virus surge is pummeling one of the least vaccinated states in the country. About 60% of Ohioans of all ages have received at least one dose of a vaccine.More than 94% of those who were hospitalized or died from the disease were unvaccinated, according to ODH data.
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