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No updates come for many nursing homes

YOUNGSTOWN — The number of current cases of COVID-19 apparently remains low in nursing homes and assisted-living facilities in the Mahoning Valley, but the Ohio Department of Health did not update its numbers for many Mahoning County facilities this week. As COVID-19 wanes in Ohio and elsewhere, just one Mahoning County assisted-living facility with updated numbers appears to have more than a couple of current COVID-19 cases. Woodlands Assisted Living in Poland has five patient cases and one staff case. The facility had eight patient and no staff cases last week. An attempt to ...

Thu. 9:09 a.m.: EU clears Moderna shot for young kids, Pfizer boosters

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Medicines Agency said it has authorized Moderna's coronavirus vaccine for children aged 6 to 11, in addition to recommending booster shots of Pfizer's vaccine for those aged 12 and older, in decisions aimed at providing further protection against COVID-19 for ...

COVID end ‘in sight,’ but not here

With COVID-19 cases per 100,000 Ohioans at the lowest point since early August, the Ohio Department of Health’s director said the end of the pandemic “is in sight,” but it’s not over. “The fact is COVID-19 is still a real presence in Ohio,” Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff, ODH director, said Thursday. “As much as we look forward to declaring, ‘we’re in the all clear,’ the data still points toward caution and tells us we’re not quite there yet.” But Vanderhoff said the state is “fast approaching numbers” that will be below 50 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 — a level of ...

2 Trumbull nursing homes see small jump in COVID-19 cases

Two Trumbull County nursing homes saw a small jump in COVID-19 cases this week, but practically every other measure of the virus was down at nursing homes and prisons in the Mahoning Valley this week. The two Trumbull facilities with increases were the Laurie Ann nursing home in Newton Falls, which has two patient cases and six staff cases this week, and the O’Brien Memorial Health Care Center nursing home in Masury, which has four patient cases and two staff cases this week, according to the Ohio Department of Health. Both facilities had low or no cases last week. A number of ...

Thu. 9:14 a.m.: COVID-19 vaccine sales push Moderna to $12B profit in 2021

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine brought in nearly $7 billion in the final quarter of 2021, and the drugmaker says it has signed purchase agreements for another $19 billion in sales this year. The vaccine maker's COVID-19 shots, which are now available in more than 70 countries, totaled $17.7 ...

COVID-19 cases in Ohio drop dramatically

February is on pace to have the fewest COVID-19 cases of any month in Ohio since last July, when the delta variant first came to the state. The significant decline also comes right after Ohio set a record in January for most monthly cases with 504,310. The omicron variant peaked in ...