Interview Commissioner Christian-Bennett would ‘absolutely’ consider declaring racism a public health crisis Portage County Commissioner Sabrina Christian-Bennett also said she would...
Members of the Ohio National and Ohio Air Guard perform Covid-19 tests at a popup testing center at NEOMED in...
A Black Lives Matter protester in Garrettsville raises a sign on Thursday. Michael Indriolo/The Portager Interview Portage County commissioners are...
The number of hospitalizations “dramatically increased to a point of concern,” said Health Commissioner Joseph Diorio in the notice, which was released Friday afternoon.
The advisory says positivity rates — the percent of people who test positive out of the total number tested—now exceed 10 percent in Portage County.
Portage County entered Covid-19 risk level four, the highest possible, after triggering six of the state health department’s seven risk level indicators, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Thursday. Michael Indriolo/The Portager
University Hospitals Kent Health Center in October. Michael Indriolo/The Portager ‘Unrelenting’ Covid-19 surge launches Portage County into purple Local health officials...
Visualization of the coronavirus. Fusion Medical Animation/Unsplash Portage County health workers are expected to receive Pfizer’s vaccine this year It’s less...
The wait for a Covid-19 vaccine is over for Portage County’s frontline medical workers.
On Wednesday, University Hospitals announced it had administered the first vaccines at UH Portage, in line with the distribution priorities set by the Ohio Health Department, the CDC and other institutions.
Portage County will start offering vaccines to people at the highest risk of developing severe Covid-19 next week, though the countywide supply is a fraction of the need, officials said in a press briefing Thursday.
The second phase of vaccine distribution, 1B, includes members of the general population who are over 65 years old or those with severe congenital or developmental disorders. Portage County will receive 1,200 doses per week to address a Phase 1B population of 27,000 residents, said Portage County Health Commissioner Joseph Diorio.
The health department partnered with the center to make the Covid-19 vaccine more accessible to the predominantly Black community the...
Covid-19 has killed 2.8 million people across the globe. Some of them were our friends or family members. Over 10,000 people in Portage County have tested positive for Covid-19, and many more may have had it and transmitted it without knowing. Each of us has been disrupted by it. This timeline is a chronicle of the pandemic in our community.
Leighann Fink lost her bid for county recorder, then faced the prospect of losing her mother to Covid-19.