COVID-19 cases in Ohio are about 1,000 for the last three days. When it comes to hospitalizations, we have seen just a small increase as only 2 percent of our state's hospital beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients.
Earlier this year, Gov. Mike DeWine set a benchmark of 50 cases per 100,000 residents -- the number we would have to hit for him to remove all the health orders Ohioans were under due to the pandemic, including the state's mask mandate.
That benchmark was met in late May/early June, and continued to fall from there until about three weeks ago.
The highly-contagious Delta variant is behind the recent uptick in Ohio's COVID-19 cases, according to the Ohio Department of Health. For example, new data from University Hospitals says more than 80% of the COVID-19 patients hospitalized there have the Delta variant.
That's up from 42% two weeks ago.
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