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Michael Patton is the first African American to serve as director of Hamilton County Job and Family Services. He credits previous department leaders who helped inspire and teach him, and says he hopes to foster the same kind of mentoring for others.
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Hamilton County is averaging 680 cases per day, nearly half of last week's average.
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"We are still inundating our hospitals with people with COVID-19 and so caution still continues to be needed," Health Commissioner Greg Kesterman said.
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"I do think that we need to just continue - as boring as it may sound - continue to emphasize the basics," Cincinnati Children's CEO Dr. Steve Davis said. "Get every kid 5 and over vaccinated if possible; have everybody wear masks indoors; and then I would say the balance of risk is better for them to be in school than it is for them to not."
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"Omicron, how contagious it is, is just stunning and frightening," UC Health President and CEO Dr. Richard Lofgren says. "It truly doubles the cases every two to three days."
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In the past seven days, Hamilton County has averaged more than 513 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people.
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Cincinnati Health Commissioner Melba Moore says only one case has been seen in Cincinnati. She urges the community to continue wearing masks, get vaccinated and get tested.
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Hamilton County is averaging slightly more than 294 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people. Sixteen people died from the virus in the last seven days.
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The county is averaging roughly 211 cases per day. Currently, 467 COVID-19 patients are in the region's hospitals, with 128 in the ICU and 89 on ventilators.
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Health Commissioner Greg Kesterman says the county is dealing with 5,200 active cases. The county's reproductive number is above 1 and there's a slight increase in hospitalizations.