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Instead of creating laws that would reduce the prison population, lawmakers are passing laws that could increase the number of prisoners who are living in coronavirus hotbeds.
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Employees have been put on administrative leave, resigned or have been reassigned as an investigation continues into how thousands of deaths have been left out of the state's coronavirus numbers.
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Ohio's Health Department says it's restructuring its infectious disease division following the discovery of as many as 4,000 unreported COVID-19 deaths; the Ohio State Highway Patrol says the cost of providing security after the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach was more than $2.4 million; beginning next week, Ohio will expand coronavirus vaccine eligibility to people diagnosed with an ongoing, high-risk medical condition; and more stories.
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More deaths are expected to be added to the data in the next few days.
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The Ohio Department of Health says as many as 4,000 COVID-19 deaths may have been underreported through the state’s reporting system, and those will now be added to the state’s tally during the coming week; Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to lift the state’s overnight curfew on Thursday; Republican Josh Mandel will make a third run for the U.S. Senate in Ohio; and more stories.
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Gov. Mike DeWine has called the occupation of the U.S. Capitol an ‘embarrassment’; five Ohio Republican members of Congress voted Wednesday to reject certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory; political leaders in Ohio are weighing in on the mob takeover at the U.S. Capitol and President Trump’s part in instigating it; and more stories.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide rose by 165 on Sunday, which is lower than the three-week average; Gov. Mike DeWine talked about the coronavirus and politics on CNN’s “State of the Union” show on Sunday; the Ohio Supreme Court now has three Democratic justices for the first time since 1994; and more stories.
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Ohio's next vaccine shipments are behind schedule; the fate of tainted legislation looming over the Ohio Statehouse since July will carry over to next year; the number of deaths from COVID-19 in Ohio continue to climb; and more stories.
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Ohio surpassed 8,000 total COVID-19 deaths over the weekend; the state says the next weekly shipment of its Pfizer coronavirus vaccine will be lower than previously estimated; an Associated Press tally shows that more than half the $98 million Ohio spent on personal protective equipment and ventilators in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic went to buy hospital gowns; and more stories.
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Four northeast Ohio counties have been taken off purple alert while Richland remains; COVID-19 continues to surge in Ohio's nursing homes as some facilities begin administering the vaccine; a Hudson lawmaker is among the growing number in quarantine or sick with COVID-19; and more stories.