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She’s a public health professor by day; a COVID-19 truther by night
Nearly 500,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, but that’s not scaring Catherine Stein. As the pandemic’s death toll rises and the scientific consensus has crystalized regarding how COVID-19 spreads and how to prevent it, Stein, who teaches infectious disease epidemiology at Case Western Reserve University, remains defiant. COVID-19, she wrote in January 2021, is “not […]
Coronavirus is surging, and a bipartisan state Senate wants to lift the bar curfew
With a pandemic worsening at an accelerating clip, a bipartisan group of state Senators is trying to lift restrictions cutting off bar sales at 10 p.m. statewide. On July 31, the Ohio Liquor Control Commission — at the behest of Gov. Mike DeWine — issued an emergency rule prohibiting liquor permit holders from selling alcohol […]
65% of Ohioans now living in counties with ‘very high’ levels of COVID-19
Thursday was Ohio’s worst day of the pandemic and all evidence suggests things are likely to worsen, according to interviews and new state data. Nearly 2,200 new COVID-19 infections were reported Thursday, the state’s third record breaking day this week alone. There are 1,041 Ohioans in the hospital with COVID-19 — about 100 shy of […]