After 27 excruciating months, most of us are ready to put the coronavirus in the rearview. But the disease caused by the virus is still killing a dozen Ohioans a day said Bruce Vanderhoff.
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“This is particularly important for those Ohioans who are most vulnerable, including those who are ages 60 and older and those with significant underlying health conditions,” he said. Omicron, the now-dominant variant of the virus, is known to cause far lower rates of hospitalizations and deaths than some of its predecessors. Part of that is because the virus is evolving to be better at spreading while making people less sick. But another part of it is because so many more Ohioans are vaccinated now than earlier in the pandemic.
Being fully vaccinated helps protect everybody from serious illness, but that’s particularly true for certain groups Vanderhoff said that a year ago, 52% of COVID deaths in Ohio were among people 70 and older. Last month that rate was 77%, he said. “We’re seeing people who don’t even get hospitalized, but they’re in bed for two weeks and that can have a profound effect on them physically, mentally and emotionally,” said LaToya Smith, a geriatric medicine fellow at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati.
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