COLUMBUS, Ohio - Although Gov. Mike DeWine is not interested in imposing new mask mandates at this point, 23 of Ohio’s 88 counties have case and testing rates high enough that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say vaccinated people should wear face coverings indoors.
The new CDC guidance is a reversal from May, when the agency lifted mask guidance for people who were fully vaccinated. It said that the latest change was necessary with the more transmissible Delta variant spreading rapidly in the U.S.
The new recommendations say that vaccinated Americans should slip masks back on if they live in areas with new infection rates of 50 or more per 100,000 residents, or positive coronavirus test results of over 8% in the past seven days.
DeWine, however, doesn’t think most Ohioans have an appetite for another mask mandate; yet a spokesman said the governor’s team is still reviewing the CDC guidance.
Encouraging unvaccinated Ohioans to get immunized against COVID-19 is more of the focus in Ohio, said the spokesman, Dan Tierney.
“We do not want to distract from the best way for Ohioans to protect themselves, and that is getting vaccinated,” Tierney said.
On Wednesday, the Ohio Department of Health reported 1,456 new coronavirus cases, which hit another high in Ohio this summer. The previous summer high was on Tuesday, when there were 1,317 new cases. Daily case reports were around 200 in early July, before the Delta variant became more dominant in Ohio.
Most of the Ohio counties that would fall under the CDC guidance - should people choose to follow it - are rural, with the exception of the Dayton and Youngstown areas and Butler County in suburban Cincinnati.
The state’s largest urban areas generally fall below the CDC threshold. For instance, in Cuyahoga County, there are 39.51 cases per 100,000 people and just 2.03% of coronavirus tests coming back positive.
Nineteen Ohio counties exceeded the threshold of 50 cases per 100,000 between Monday, July 19 and Saturday, according to the CDC:
-Adams, with 126.36 cases per 100,000 residents
-Ashland, with 71.05 cases per 100,000 residents
-Brown, with 73.68 cases per 100,000
-Butler, with 50.90 cases per 100,000
-Clinton, with 61.95 cases per 100,000
-Columbiana,106.99 cases per 100,000
-Crawford, with 60.25 cases per 100,000
-Defiance, with 60.39 cases per 100,000
-Gallia, with 117.06 per 100,000
-Greene, with 59.19 per 100,000
-Lawrence, with 105.95 per 100,000
-Mahoning, with 77.84 cases per 100,000
-Meigs, with 56.75 per 100,000
-Miami, with 65.43 per 100,000
-Montgomery, with 70.34 per 100,000
-Preble, with 61.15 per 100,000
-Scioto, with 87.63 per 100,000
-Trumbull, with 60.11 per 100,000
-Williams, with 59.96 per 100,000
An additional four counties didn’t meet the case threshold but did have high positive test rates:
-Fulton, with an 8.37% test positivity rate.
-Henry, with an 9.15% rate
-Morgan, 8.93%
Washington, 9.12%
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