Northeast Ohio’s COVID-19 surge continues despite warmer weather

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – For the previous two-and-a-half years, the overall rule with COVID-19 infections was the hotter the climate, the less new circumstances inside a group.

That logic is predicated on extra individuals spending time outdoors as a substitute of being cooped up throughout colder months.

That idea doesn’t look like working with the most recent type of Omicron, BA.2.12.1 which is quickly changing into the dominate variant in Ohio.

The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention has developed a brand new methodology for monitoring unfold in every county utilizing a system of latest circumstances, new hospitalization and the % of hospital beds being utilized by COVID sufferers.

The equation then places every county into both low, medium or excessive of group unfold.

Two weeks in the past, your entire state of Ohio was inexperienced, or low, apart from one county, in excessive southern Ohio marked as yellow or medium unfold.

The present map of Ohio is now suffering from 17 medium unfold counties, most of that are in Northeast Ohio and 5 checklist as excessive, together with Cuyahoga and Lorain counties.

Due to the excessive designation by the CDC, this week Cuyahoga County Govt Armond Budish signed an govt order stating anybody in a county constructing should return to carrying masks.

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