COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Well being is delivering an update on the COVID-19 pandemic as President Joe Biden specifics ideas to send army clinical staff to hospitals in 6 states, including Ohio. 

Office of Well being Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff is joined for Thursday’s briefing by Maj. Standard John C. Harris, adjunct common with the Ohio National Guard, as well as Daniel Bachman, who serves as director of Emergency Preparedness at The Ohio Condition University and Jennifer Wall Forrester, affiliate main health-related officer and infectious condition health practitioner at UC Well being. 

You can enjoy Thursday’s briefing in the participant beneath:

Biden detailed the federal government’s endeavours to support overwhelmed hospitals throughout the region on Thursday. 

Starting next 7 days, 1,000 army medics will begin arriving at hospitals now having difficulties with staffing shortages and an inflow of COVID-19 clients. That features the Cleveland Clinic in northeast Ohio. 

In accordance to Vanderhoff, Ohio is at the moment suffering from its highest quantity of COVID-connected healthcare facility admissions considering the fact that the get started of the pandemic. 

The the vast majority of those people hospitalizations have been described in the northern part of the point out. Of the extra than 6,500 total virus hospitalizations claimed last Thursday, Cleveland Clinic Chief Clinical Procedure Officer Dr. Robert Wyllie reported approximately 3,700 to 3,800 had been in northern Ohio. 

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