Ohio COVID-19 deaths top 10,000

Coronavirus deaths during the 10-month-old pandemic hit five figures on Friday as the state reported 67 additional fatalities to raise the death toll to 10,057 (Source: ”Grim milestone: Ohio surpasses 10,000 COVID-19 deaths,” Columbus Dispatch, Jan. 15).

With a large majority of the deaths among seniors, the state targeted its opening salvos of vaccine doses to at-risk Ohioans in skilled-care nursing homes and then to other older Ohioans.

COVID-19 deaths accelerated throughout December and into January, with more than one-third of all fatalities being reported in the past six weeks.