COLUMBUS, Ohio - At least 39,162 Ohioans have had coronavirus, up 325 from Monday, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
Of these, at least 2,421 people have died, up from 2,404 on Monday.
The increase between Monday and Tuesday doesn’t necessarily mean all the cases and deaths happened in that time. There is some lag between when local entities notify the state.
At least 7.1 million people have had coronavirus across the globe and at least 408,000 have died with it, according to John Hopkins University’s coronavirus map.
That includes over 1.9 Americans and 111,000 U.S. deaths.
Gov. Mike DeWine on Tuesday provided an update on personal protective equipment for coronavirus and police initiatives for protests, in wake of the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the past two weeks.
DeWine said on Thursday, the next scheduled briefing, he’ll address the rate of transmission, which is a measurement called R0, or R-naught. He said it’s been creeping upward since Ohio reopened businesses in the past month.
The health department is reporting that over 487,500 Ohioans have been tested. And the state’s effort to expand testing appears to be making some improvements. The state moved up one spot in its testing rate per 100,000 people -- from ninth lowest testing rate to 10th -- of all states, territories and Washington, D.C., according to Johns Hopkins.
Policing update
On Tuesday, George Floyd’s funeral began and DeWine announced an effort to ensure all Ohio police officers are certified in the state’s use-of-force and use-of-deadly force training, as well as a new office to expand diversity among police ranks.
Seventy-nine percent of Ohio’s police officers work for a police agency that has voluntarily complied with the standards or is in the process of becoming certified in the standards, many in the larger population areas of the state.
But around 400 of the state’s 800 departments are not certified in the training, DeWine said.
DeWine said he wants the remaining departments to get the certification.
“We’ll work with them to help ensure compliance," he said. “I’ve ordered the Department of Public Safety’s Office of Criminal Justice, which oversees the certification process, to reach out directly to every single police agency in the state that is not meeting these standards, and to assist them in any way they can.”
He’s not going to penalize the departments that haven’t complied, at this point, because he said some may feel they have legitimate reasons -- such as they’re under consent decrees monitored by that courts that spell out police training and continuing education.
The certification and other statewide police standards came from the Ohio Collaborative Community-Police Advisory Board, established in 2015 by former Gov. John Kasich and former state senator Nina Turner, after a number of police-related shootings of black boys and men, including Tamir Rice in Cleveland and John Crawford in Beavercreek near Dayton.
Other recommended standards from the collaborative board include community engagement, body cameras, bias-free policing, employee misconduct, law enforcement telecommunication training and police pursuits.
DeWine said there was a new standard he asked the collaborative board to add last week: law enforcement’s response to mass gatherings, including when use of tear gas, pepper spray and other non-lethal projectiles are considered necessary or excessive, best practices are and how to protect news media from injury.
DeWine said he doesn’t want to give protestors a free pass to damage property. But police need to respect
“Ohio must do more to encourage minorities and women to join the ranks of our police departments,” he said.
So on Tuesday DeWine said he’s created the Ohio Office of Law Enforcement Recruitment within the Ohio Department of Public Safety’s Office of Criminal Justice.
The office will help local agencies with recruitment and retention. Some agencies make it a priority more than others, he said. He said the office will work closely with the Ohio Mayor’s Alliance, sheriffs and police chiefs.
“We are going to continue to work on this,” he said. “This is my first round of announcements. These are additions frankly that I can make quickly without legislation.... We are working on other ideas with our friends in the General Assembly.”
DeWine wants police changes, but he won’t go as far as supporting the growing movement to defund the police and using the money on social services.
“I’m not in favor of defunding the police," he said. "I think that would be absurd. I can’t imagine what people are thinking about defunding the police. I mean, we need police. We need fire. We need emergency responders.”
PPE
DeWine said the state has distributed over 30 million pieces of personal protective equipment. The state has obtained them from the federal government, donations and it has purchased some.
Of the 37 million, over 27 million have been shipped at county emergency management agencies.
About 1.5 million have been distributed to Ohio employers from the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation.
DeWine said that the state’s looking at the supply chain for PPE. Many pieces of equipment are manufactured in China have been difficult to obtain because of that country’s COVID-19 outbreak.
World Health Organization news
Although the World Health Organization announced Monday that a very small percentage of asymptomatic people with coronavirus transmit the disease, DeWine had an expert join his briefing Tuesday who said that knowledge should not change how people act.
There’s a difference between being asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic, said Susan Koletar, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Ohio State University.
And the tricky part is that asymptomatic cases are different than pre-symptomatic cases. The virus can take 14 days to incubate in people who would be pre-symptomatic, Koletar said.
“Pre-symptomatic: They may have some symptoms but really not enough to cause any alarm,” she said. “But then those people go on to develop more classic symptoms over time.”
Koletar said that social distancing, hand-washing and wearing masks are still important, since it’s hard to know who is asymptomatic and who is pre-symptomatic.
And even if a person is asymptomatic, there is still a possibility -- even if it’s small -- to spread the disease, Koletar said.
“You should consider yourself contagious,” she said. “That’s why, particularly outside of households, in public, we need to think about things like masking.”
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