Health Orders

Despite the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Ohio, the masking policies still vary among school districts.

Donna Skoda says SB22 restricts her department's ability to keep residents safe from communicable diseases.

Ohio is asking federal authorities to bank nearly half-a-million vaccine doses as demand begins to slow; Ohio Republican legislative leaders have scrapped plans to ask voters to approve extending the deadline for redrawing state political maps; the Ohio Department of Health director has signed some new orders dealing with the care of older Ohioans; and more stories.

The Ohio Department of Health director has signed some new orders dealing with the care of older Ohioans.

The Board of Education for a southwest Ohio school district has voted to defy the state’s mask mandate.

Ohio House Republicans added a provision into Gov. Mike DeWine’s two-year state budget that would erase violations of his COVID health orders by bars.

The opening date for the mass vaccination site at the Summit County Fairgrounds has been pushed back to next month; photos of female athletes from Hudson High School have been removed from the website of a campaign to Defend Title IX; GOP lawmakers have made good on their promise to check the authority of fellow Republican Gov. Mike DeWine by issuing the first override of his term; and more stories.

Public health experts are speaking out against the bill that would allow state lawmakers to overturn a governor’s health and emergency orders , and would restrict those orders at the local level too. Gov. Mike DeWine vetoed that bill yesterday, but legislators are set to override it today.

Gov. Mike DeWine has vetoed a bill that would give state lawmakers the power to overturn his health and emergency orders. DeWine’s fellow Republicans in the legislature who support it are standing firm, so it’s almost certainly headed to a veto override and a court fight.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine says on Tuesday he’ll veto a bill that takes away authority from the governor and health departments, and gives more power to lawmakers who passed the measure. DeWine says if it becomes law, the public’s safety would be at risk.