St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital added a large, yellow tent to an area near the emergency room early Thursday. Nearby, the Mahoning County Emergency Management Agency Decontamination Unit truck was parked.

But Jonathan Fauvie, spokesman for Mercy Health, said he could not comment on the reason for the tent, saying only “As information becomes available, we will be sure to push that out to our media partners.”

A call to the Mahoning County Emergency Management Agency was not returned.

The Vindicator contacted the Ohio Department of Health to ask whether any Corona virus cases had been diagnosed in Mahoning County, but a spokesperson there said to tune into a 2 p.m. press briefing by Gov. Mike DeWine. He addressed a case in Trumbull County but did not mention any in Mahoning.