With the lifting of most pandemic restrictions, cases of COVID-19 have slightly increased across Ohio and throughout the nation.
On May 19, Ohio’s director of health Bruce Vanderhoff said the increase in early-to-mid May was due to virus variants lingering around.
The rise was around the time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) pandemic’s U.S. death toll reached 1 million people.
In Ohio, the weekly average of deaths has declined by 16 percent.
Vanderhoff said there were 582 people hospitalized throughout Ohio with the virus; a substantial drop compared to the more than 6,700 being treated in hospitals on Jan. 11 during the height of the pandemic….