07/07/2020

2020-07-07 OH Gov. DeWine COVID-19 Update

Tuesday, July 7	55150 Confirmed Cases	58904 Total Cases (CDC)	8383 Number of Hospitalizations	2101 ICU Admissions	2718 Confirmed Deaths	2970 Total Deaths (CDC)
Monday, July 6	54232 Confirmed Cases	57956 Total Cases (CDC)	8249 Number of Hospitalizations	2077 ICU Admissions	2677 Confirmed Deaths	2927 Total Deaths (CDC)
Sunday, July 5	53458 Confirmed Cases	57151 Total Cases (CDC)	8172 Number of Hospitalizations	2058 ICU Admissions	2661 Confirmed Deaths	2911 Total Deaths (CDC)
Saturday, July 4	52488 Confirmed Cases	56183 Total Cases (CDC)	8111 Number of Hospitalizations	2052 ICU Admissions	2657 Confirmed Deaths	2907 Total Deaths (CDC)
Friday, July 3	51581 Confirmed Cases	55257 Total Cases (CDC)	8084 Number of Hospitalizations	2044 ICU Admissions	2653 Confirmed Deaths	2903 Total Deaths (CDC)
Thursday, July 2	50523 Confirmed Cases	54166 Total Cases (CDC)	8038 Number of Hospitalizations	2035 ICU Admissions	2653 Confirmed Deaths	2903 Total Deaths (CDC)

Updated daily at 2 p.m. - https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/ 

 

New orders/actions

 

• The Ohio Dept. of Health is issuing an order for the 7 counties in Alert Level 3 requiring all individuals to wear a mask in all public indoor spaces.  The order begins tomorrow evening at 6:00 pm ET and will remain in place as long as the county is in Alert Level 3 or higher.
• The next press conference will be on Thursday, July 9, unless events warrant.

 

The Governor opened by offering his condolences on the death of Toledo police officer Anthony Dia and sent his best wishes to Representative Stephanie Howse (D-Cleveland), who has tested positive for COVID-19.

 

As can seen above and in the charts below, the state’s numbers are up across the board.  Thursday’s new case number of 1301 was the highest one day total (excepting the mass prison testing) by far.  The Governor said he continues to be concerned about this trend and they are monitoring the data closely.  He noted that in particular, the age range with the largest positive cases has been getting younger – the 20-29 age range had the most positive tests in June and thus far in July.  In March and April, it the 50-59 age group.  The county-by-county alert levels will be updated tomorrow.

 

The Governor particularly noted the numbers from Franklin County continue to look bad.  Franklin County is currently in Alert Level 3, but is starred for being close to moving to Alert Level 4.   In addition to Franklin County, Hamilton, Butler, Montgomery, Huron, Cuyahoga and Trumbull are also in Alert Level 3.  After speaking with health directors from each of those counties, he said they told him that the spread appears to be coming from large family gatherings, church services, and some workplaces. 

 

As such, the Ohio Dept. of Health is issuing an order for the 7 counties in Alert Level 3 that all individuals must wear a mask in all public indoor spaces.  Masks will be required in all indoor locations except residences (including all places of business) as well as outdoors when 6 feet cannot be maintained. A number of additional exceptions will be included (such as while exercising, children less than 10 years old, when against industry best practices, under doctor’s orders, alone in workspace, etc.).  The order begins tomorrow evening at 6:00 pm ET and will remain in place as long as the county is in Alert Level 3 or higher.  Schools in these counties will still be subject to the guidelines issued last week by the Dept. of Education for re-opening.

 

Lt. Governor Husted added that it is not up to businesses to physically enforce the order.  Enforcement will be done by state and local officials, though business owners should cooperate with the order, share and post the rules and encourage all customers to follow the order.  Like other state health orders, a violation is a misdemeanor.  The Governor said the state is not looking to create a lot of arrests, but that the order is necessary to react in these counties that are experiencing increases across multiple data points. 

 

Contact and non-contact sports tournaments can resume with certain restrictions, as found on the state’s website.  This is limited authority that only extends until July 15.  This is a test period and results will be assessed.  Basically, it allows a couple of camps and an ESPN basketball tournament to proceed. 

 

In response to questions from the media, the Governor said the budget numbers are not as bad as the worst predictions but are still not good.  He anticipates that the State will have to use lot of the Rainy Day Fund at some point – that the state might need to use all of it before the crisis is done.    

 

Upcoming Calfee events

 

Discussion with Calfee and U.S. Congressman Troy Balderson, Monday, July 20, 1:30-2:00 pm ET: RSVP here

 

If you missed a prior webinar and would like to catch up, please visit: Calfee Webinars

 

Other items of note

 

• On Monday, for the 28th day in a row, the country’s rolling seven-day average of daily new cases shattered all previous records, although the number of deaths has remained relatively stable. Alabama, California, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas were among the states that reported unprecedented numbers of hospitalizations.  The nationwide total of reported cases is approaching 3 million, including at least 127,000 deaths.
• Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has sought repeatedly to minimize the coronavirus as he urges the country back to work, has tested positive for covid-19, he told reporters on Tuesday.
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday that international students must leave the country if they are not taking in-person classes in the fall, sending university officials scrambling.
• DeWine Seeds-Silver Dollar Baseball, a company partly owned by Gov. Mike DeWine, received a $189,500 loan under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The company owns the Asheville Tourists, a minor league baseball team in North Carolina that DeWine's son, Brian DeWine, currently serves as president of. DeWine said he holds a 32 percent stake in the team and plays no management role. The public may never know the identity of more than 80 percent of the nearly 5 million beneficiaries of the PPP loans as the president's administration has refused to release details on loans under $150,000 -- the vast majority of borrowers, the Associated Press reports.

 

Ohio COVID-19 Data Curves

 

The following are graphic representations of reported cases, hospitalizations, ICU admissions and deaths using Ohio Department of Health data and expanded CDC definitions.

 

 

Friday – 824,481 tested – 7.06% of the population

Saturday – 844,675 tested – 7.24% of the population – 20,194 additional tests

Sunday – 865,069 tested – 7.41% of the population – 20,394 additional tests

Monday – 877,688 tested – 7.52% of the population – 12,619 additional tests

Tuesday – 892,791 tested – 7.65% of the population – 15,103 additional tests

 

Note: For an archive of all COVID-19 related First Alerts from Calfee, which are separate from these emails and focused on specific business topics, please visit the Calfee COVID-19 Resource Center: https://www.calfee.com/covid-19-resource-center

 

 

 

 

 

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