Donna Skoda

The Summit County Public Health Opiate Abatement Advisory Council is seeking public input on how to allocate a $104 million opioid settlement.

Northeast Ohio's supply of the updated Moderna booster shot that protects against the new omicron variants has run out in some communities and is low in others after a reported inspection issue at a vaccine manufacturing plant in Indiana earlier this month.

COVID-19 cases continue to fall in Northeast Ohio, but officials say we aren’t out of the woods of the omicron surge yet.

At first, COVID-19 was classified as an epidemic. When it began to spread worldwide, it became a pandemic. Now, if it's something that we don't expect to get rid of, it will become endemic, which is looking more and more likely according to health officials.

One thing people should not do is go to the emergency room because hospital systems are already overwhelmed.

The drive-thru appointment-only shots will be offered through Oct. 15.

The health department will be giving away $100 Visa or Mastercard gift cards to residents who receive their first dose of any COVID-19 vaccine.

The mass COVID-19 vaccination site at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State University has closed after twelve weeks of operations and more than 260,000 COVID-19 vaccines administered.

Summit County Public Health Commissioner Donna Skoda is looking to implement new strategies to get more people vaccinated.

Vaccination efforts such as mass vaccination sites have been ineffective in vaccinating minority populations, so Summit County Public Health is creating pop-up vaccine sites within communities.