As we near this grim milestone, the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight. Nearly 1.5 million Ohioans have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and, this week, the state reported its fewest number of new cases since early October.
COLUMBUS — About one year after the first known COVID-19 death in the United States, the country’s death toll nears half a million.
No other country has counted as many deaths during the pandemic. More Americans have died from COVID-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Of those 500,000, about 17,000 were our fellow Ohioans.
As we near this grim milestone, the light at the end of the tunnel is in sight. Nearly 1.5 million Ohioans have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and, this week, the state reported its fewest number of new cases since early October.
But Ohioans shouldn’t let down their guards just yet.
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