The Ohio government has previously told Mike Divine to be more vigilant in guiding residents in areas where they need to stay home to avoid trips needed to get goods and services. Considering the rapid spread and thin hospital capacity, Montgomery County residents have already been advised to stay home if they do not need to move out.
Some businesses and school districts have changed their plans based on the level of exposure, so the purple level may trigger new announcements from some of those organizations.
“The current virus outbreak across Ohio is reflected in today’s alert system update, which is very dangerous when we go on vacation,” Divin said. “This week we heard from hospital executives and frontline staff about how overwhelmed they are. It is imperative that the Ohio people take the virus and this current situation seriously.”
Elevated districts with the highest alert level are hospitalized with increased case numbers and weeks. The ODH notes that 10 of the 11 districts on the Level 4 monitoring list are in the Akron and Cincinnati regions, which are now increasing the demand for ICU beds for adults due to the increase in COVID-19 ICU patients.
The county’s shelter consultation came into effect on the same day that the ODH announced Montgomery County’s watch list status last week. The consultation will last until December 17 in an effort to slow the spread of the corona virus. There is a statewide curfew from 10pm to 5am
Montgomery County has been red or Level 3 almost every week since the public health advisory system was announced in July.
Seven indicators:
- Individual new cases: There have been more than 50 cases per 100,000 residents in the last two weeks.
- Sustained increase in new cases: In some of the last three weeks, there were at least five consecutive days when the number of cases (by the start date) increased.
- Proportion of cases not in the House system: The rate of cases among people who do not live in long-term care facilities, group homes, prisons or prisons has risen by more than 50% in the last three weeks.
- Continued increase in emergency care visits for COVID-19 such as: At some point in the last three weeks, the number of visitors to COVID-19 health trips for at least five consecutive days has increased.
- Continued increase in outpatient visits for disease-like COVID-19: Over the past three weeks, there has been an increase in the number of people making COVID-19 health trips for at least five consecutive days.
- Continued increase in new COVID-19 hospital admissions: At times during the last three weeks, COVID-19 continued for at least five days as hospital admissions increased.
- Intensive Care Unit: The percentage of ICU beds occupied in the area was more than 80% for at least three days last week, and more than 20% of ICU beds have been used for COVID-19 patients for at least three days in the past week.
