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We are staying on the air with our regular music format interspersed with continuing updates on the coronavirus as it relates to the 17-county NEO region surrounding Cuyahoga County. Additionally, we are distributing through social media (oWOW.radio web site; oWOW Facebook page) a daily and...
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We are staying on the air with our regular music format interspersed with continuing updates on the coronavirus as it relates to the 17-county NEO region surrounding Cuyahoga County. Additionally, we are distributing through social media (oWOW.radio web site; oWOW Facebook page) a daily and continually updated news and information page (today's page attached).
oWOW COVID-19 INFORMATION UPDATE FOR SAT. 3/27
This post is updated during the day as situations warrant. Please check back
SATURDAY OHIO STATISTICS RELEASED
From the Ohio Dept. of Health
• 1,406 cases confirmed. An increase of 269 cases in 24 hours.
• 334 people hospitalized. An increase of 77 hospitalized in 24 hours.
• 25 fatalities. An increase of 5 fatalities in 24 hours.
• 123 in ICU. An increase of 16 ICU patients in 24 hours.
DEMOGRAPHICS:
• Age range: Under 1 to 96
• Median age: 52
• Gender: 52% male. 48% female.
Gov. Mike DeWine said one of
the staffers responsible for compiling the daily statistics fell ill and
was hospitalized with pneumonia. That person, however, tested negative
for COVID-19.
UNITED STATES:
• 105,000 cases confirmed.
• 1,700 fatalities.
WORLDWIDE:
• 622,000 cases confirmed.
• 29,000 fatalities.
From today's conference:
COLUMBUS TECH FIRM BATTELLE AWAITING FDA APPROVAL FOR MEDICAL MASK STERILIZATION
• Battelle, a Columbus technology firm Battelle has found solutions to sterilize medical masks for reuse.
• A new machine developed can manufacture 80,000 masks per unit, is pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
• “I want to make a public
appeal to the FDA, please, please give us the approval to use these,”
Gov. DeWine said in his press conference. “We have nurses, we have
doctors, we have people working in nursing homes who
need these masks.”
CONVID-19 ESIMATES FOR OHIO
• Gov. Mike DeWine’s medical
team determines that Ohio will reach up to 10,000 new cases daily at
CONVID-19 contagion peak. This peak may not occur until mid-May.
• In about two weeks, Ohio is
going to be hit hard with coronavirus cases, possibly up to 10,000 a
day, DeWine said. The peak may not occur until mid-May. ‘these are
estimates, we not sure exactly,” Gov. DeWine added.
• As reported earlier, Ohio has
been divided into eight diverse hospital regions and charging
facilities in each region to work together to determine how best to
balance the surge in coronavirus patients, in addition
to the regular patient load. The preliminary drafts were delivered to
the governor’s office this morning and officials are reviewing the
tactics.
• “We cannot get through this
by each hospital doing its own thing,” Gov. DeWine said. “The only way
we can get through this is with each hospital working together.”
• DeWine also stressed the
importance to hospitals in locating additional much-needed beds in idle
rooms of nursing homes and hotels for non-infectious, non-coronavirus
patients.
• The final drafts of the eight
regions operations are due noon Monday, though Ohio state officials are
already contacting hospitals, nursing homes, and assisting living homes
for their opinions and inventory now.
IMPROVING LAB WORK TIME
• Gov. DeWine contacted
LabCorp, a Burlington, North Carolina firm, to begin producing test
results in a greater timely manner, preferably in real-time. LabCorp
operates one of the largest clinical laboratory networks
in the world, with a U.S. network of 36 primary laboratories.
• Quest Diagnostics, of
Secaucus, NJ, another private lab with local offices in Fairview Park
and Middleburg Heights, has also been contacted.
• Dr. Amy Acton, director of
the Ohio Department of Health said Ohio statistics and data are lagging,
suggesting that private labs are not delivering the information in a
speed the State of Ohio needs. Acton understood
the labs are under intense pressure but Ohio needs test result quicker,
positive and negative, to complete and follow a necessary course of
action.
PROTECTIVE MEDICAL ITEMS NEEDED BY STATE OF OHIO
• During the brief, Dr. Acton
showed a list of the the top 10 personal protective equipment needed.
Businesses with this equipment are urge to contact the state at:
together@governor.ohio.gov.
1. Surgical gowns (all sizes)
2. Face/surgical masks (adult/pediatric)
3. Gloves
4. N95 particulate respirators
5. Isolation gowns
6. Face shields
7. Tyvek coveralls
8. Thermometers
9. Foot coverings
10. Ventilator tubing
CHURCH VIOLATION
• A Cincinnati area megachurch,
Solid Rock, was cited for still offering in-person services with
patrons standing close together. Governor DeWine asked churches to
conduct services online so parishioners do not have
to stand so closely together.
There will not be a State of
Ohio briefing tomorrow (Sunday). Any new news, updates or statistics
will be posted on oWOW.radio and the oWOW Facebook page as received. We
expect there will be stats available for this
24-hour period tomorrow after 12 noon.
Earlier Saturday updates:
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK RECEIVES $300K GRANT FROM COVID-19 FUND.
• The Greater Cleveland Food
Bank is using its $300,000 grant from the Greater Cleveland COVID-19
Rapid Response Fund to supply the fast-growing number of Northeast Ohio
penurious, including children, families, seniors,
and individuals with health challenges.
• The grant helps the Food Bank
subsidize emergency food resources as well as programming and supplies
that will be required in the coming weeks as the COVID-19 statistics
rise.
SUMMIT COUNTY HEALTH ACTING ON COVID-19 BUSINESS VIOLATORS
• Following reports of over 400
complaints of commerce violations, a number of business have been shut
down to the efforts of the Summit County Public Health Department’s
enforcement of Ohio’s COVID-19 Stay-At-Home.
• Violating businesses included a college, a playground, a fitness center, and a retail business.
• The agency has received more
than 400 complaints about businesses possibly in violation of the state
order. 37 businesses have been closed so far.
PENNSLVANIA STEPS UP IT’S STAY AT HOME ORDER
• Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf expanded the state’s stay-at-home order, adding Beaver and Washington counties.
• Stay-at-home orders now cover
the majority of southwestern Pennsylvania in terms of population,
including Allegheny, Butler and Westmoreland counties.
• 2,751 Pennsylvania residents
have been infected this month with 34 fatalities. In 24 hours, the state
confirmed an additional 533 cases and 12 fatalities in the past 24
hours.
PRESIDENT ATTACKS GM FOR THE LORDSTOWN SITE IT NO LONGER OWNS.
• President Donald Trump
tweeted a message yesterday that General Motors should reopen and
repurpose the now-closed Lordstown, Ohio factory and other unused
factories to build ventilators for coronavirus patients.
• The tweet read: “General
Motors MUST immediately open their stupidly abandoned Lordstown plant in
Ohio, or some other plant, and START MAKING VENTILATORS, NOW!!!!!!
FORD, GET GOING ON VENTILATORS, FAST!!!!!!”
• GM sold the Lordstown plant
last year to the Cincinnati based Workhouse Group. The company is
converting the site for its contract to build its Endurance model
lightweight all-wheel drive electric truck. The new owners
were not notified.
• GM replied to the tweet in a
statement that it has already been working with the facilities it does
own GM for the past week with another company and parts suppliers to
build more ventilators.
• Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim
Ryan, whose district represents the Lordstown facility, responded
directly to the president's tweet and called on him to enact the Defense
Production Act and direct companies on supplies to
produce during this critical time. The congressman responded, "The only
thing standing in your way, Mr. President, is you!"
oWOW will continue to monitor and update you on the Coronavirus as needed throughout the day. Thank you for your comments and encouragement. Though oWOW can be heard worldwide our goal is provide continuing local and regional coverage to the 17-county region surrounding Greater Cleveland.
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