NEWS
* Muskingum Township Meeting Schedule *
Regular Meetings are the First Thursday of each Month at 7:00 PM at the Firehouse,
*******Next Meeting - Muskingum Township Trustees will meet for a regular meeting on Thursday December 1, at 7:00 pm at the Township Fire Dept. office 7005 Frazeysburg Rd. Nashport, OH 43830*******
Coronavirus Updates
MEDIA ADVISORYFor Immediate Release 1-26-2022, 4:30 PMJennifer Hiestand, Public InformationOfficer740-819-0570, jenniferh@zmchd.orgUpdates are posted on Wednesdays by 4:30pm.Muskingum County COVID-19 Update(Muskingum County Unified Command consists of the following agencies: Health Department, Genesis HealthcareSystem, City & County Elected Officials, Law Enforcement/EMS/Fire, Emergency Management, Red Cross, FoodPantries/Hot Meal Programs, Muskingum Valley Health Center, United Way, 211 Call Center)COVID-19 deaths 227-231 in Muskingum CountyThe Muskingum County Joint Unified Command Center is reporting the following MuskingumCounty deaths from COVID-19: an 85-year-old and an 87-year-old who died with acuterespiratory failure due to COVID-19, a 57-year-old who died with severe COVID-19 acuterespiratory distress syndrome, a 63-year-old who died with COVID-19, a 41-year-old who diedwith complications due to COVID-19.COVID-19 cases in Muskingum CountyThe Muskingum County Joint Unified Command Center is reporting 1,056 new MuskingumCounty residents have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last seven days. This number breaksdown as follows: 166 reported on 1/19, 192 reported on 1/20, 246 reported on 1/21, 173reported on 1/22, 210 reported on 1/23, 58 reported on 1/24, and 11 reported on 1/25.Click on the following link to access the Muskingum County COVID-19 Dashboard https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vThM01itcblx_GTCn_mZz7o12cau2naE814ed-bLdThqsqtQi8I92NAQyTumayhiUmNdBwsc2rbXsQa/pubhtml. This is aliving document updated daily. The numbers presented here may differ from Genesis Hospital.Genesis treats patients from many surrounding counties, whereas these numbers are forMuskingum County ONLY.
21,191RecoveredCases 28-102 AgeRange ofDeaths
Muskingum County Emergency Management AgencyJoint Command for COVID 19 ResponseJeff JadwinDirectorCell: 740-252-1318jjjadwin@muskingumcounty.org
Matt LutzSheriffOffice: 740-452-3637mlutz@ohiomuskingumsheriff.org
Corey HamiltonHealthCommissionerCell 740-624-8736coreyh@zmchd.org
Sharon ParkerGenesis HCSOffice 740-454-5444sparker@genesishcs.org
Office 740-453-16552215 Adamsville Rd.Zanesville OH 43701
CommissionersOffice 740-455-7100
Don MasonMayorOffice 740-617-4913don@coz.org
Planning • Response • Recovery • Mitigation
Command UpdateZanesville-Muskingum County Health DepartmentEvery home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 FREE at-home COVID-19 tests. Order your testsnow so you have them when you need them. Visit https://www.covidtests.gov/ to place yourorder.
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Below are updates from Governor DeWine’s press conference.
Ohio’s COVID-19 case per 100,000: 698.7
LETTER FROM OHIO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
Governor DeWine received a letter from the Ohio Hospital Association outlining the dire conditions facing hospitals on the front lines of treating patients with COVID. While hospitals are doing everything they can to help these patients, they are facing a severe nursing and staffing shortage. What they wrote the Governor is consistent with what he has been hearing from front-line health care workers.
The letter reported that increasing cases are putting a strain on hospital resources. The data shows: In mid-July, Ohio hospitals were treating 200 COVID-19 patients, today that number is 3,702. That’s a 16-fold increase in two months. In mid-July, one out of 100 patients in the hospital were being treated for COVID. Today the ratio is one out of six. Today, 40% of patients on ventilators are being treated for COVID. In rural Southeast Ohio half of hospitalized patients are being treated for COVID-19 and two-thirds of the patients in the intensive care unit are being treated for COVID.
The letter described a situation where strained resources impact the ability to care for all patients. Some Ohio hospitals are diverting patients away from emergency departments, cancelling certain procedures, experiencing long wait times in emergency departments, and shutting down certain units to redeploy staff to critical cases.
OHIO VAX-2-SCHOOL
Governor DeWine emphasized that keeping kids in school, in-person, five days a week, remains a priority. We know that the best way to do that is to get students vaccinated. In addition to protecting kids from the severe effects of the virus, students who are vaccinated, do not have to quarantine if exposed, which means they won’t miss out on school.
To encourage eligible kids to get vaccinated, Governor DeWine announced the Ohio Vax-2-School program, which will be open to Ohioans aged 12 to 25 years old, and will be similar to the scholarship portion of the successful Vax-a-Million program.
Prizes will include 50 scholarships worth $10,000 each and five $100,000 scholarships to an Ohio college or university for career or technical education. Prizes will be announced Monday through Friday beginning the week of October 11th. More details will be announced, including how to register, in the coming days.
BUS DRIVERS
Governor DeWine also made a public plea, after hearing from school districts across the state about the shortage of bus drivers. He asked any Ohioan with a CDL license that also has a bus driver certification, who are not employed, to contact their local school district, to help drive school busses, temporarily.
He also spoke with Attorney General Dave Yost who agreed that, moving forward, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation would prioritize required background checks for school bus drivers, educators, nurses, and other health care professionals.
CASE DATA & VACCINE INFORMATION
In-depth COVID-19 data for Ohio: coronavirus.ohio.gov. Ohio's central scheduling system: gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.gov All vaccine providers: vaccine.coronavirus.ohio.gov
As always, Coronavirus.Ohio.Gov and the Department of Health hotline, 1-833-4-ASK-ODH are great resources for those who have questions.
Thank you.
21,191RecoveredCases 28-102 AgeRange ofDeaths
Muskingum County Emergency Management AgencyJoint Command for COVID 19 ResponseJeff JadwinDirectorCell: 740-252-1318jjjadwin@muskingumcounty.org
Matt LutzSheriffOffice: 740-452-3637mlutz@ohiomuskingumsheriff.org
Corey HamiltonHealthCommissionerCell 740-624-8736coreyh@zmchd.org
Sharon ParkerGenesis HCSOffice 740-454-5444sparker@genesishcs.org
Office 740-453-16552215 Adamsville Rd.Zanesville OH 43701
CommissionersOffice 740-455-7100
Don MasonMayorOffice 740-617-4913don@coz.org
Planning • Response • Recovery • Mitigation
Command UpdateZanesville-Muskingum County Health DepartmentEvery home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 FREE at-home COVID-19 tests. Order your testsnow so you have them when you need them. Visit https://www.covidtests.gov/ to place yourorder.
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Below are updates from Governor DeWine’s press conference.
Ohio’s COVID-19 case per 100,000: 698.7
LETTER FROM OHIO HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
Governor DeWine received a letter from the Ohio Hospital Association outlining the dire conditions facing hospitals on the front lines of treating patients with COVID. While hospitals are doing everything they can to help these patients, they are facing a severe nursing and staffing shortage. What they wrote the Governor is consistent with what he has been hearing from front-line health care workers.
The letter reported that increasing cases are putting a strain on hospital resources. The data shows: In mid-July, Ohio hospitals were treating 200 COVID-19 patients, today that number is 3,702. That’s a 16-fold increase in two months. In mid-July, one out of 100 patients in the hospital were being treated for COVID. Today the ratio is one out of six. Today, 40% of patients on ventilators are being treated for COVID. In rural Southeast Ohio half of hospitalized patients are being treated for COVID-19 and two-thirds of the patients in the intensive care unit are being treated for COVID.
The letter described a situation where strained resources impact the ability to care for all patients. Some Ohio hospitals are diverting patients away from emergency departments, cancelling certain procedures, experiencing long wait times in emergency departments, and shutting down certain units to redeploy staff to critical cases.
OHIO VAX-2-SCHOOL
Governor DeWine emphasized that keeping kids in school, in-person, five days a week, remains a priority. We know that the best way to do that is to get students vaccinated. In addition to protecting kids from the severe effects of the virus, students who are vaccinated, do not have to quarantine if exposed, which means they won’t miss out on school.
To encourage eligible kids to get vaccinated, Governor DeWine announced the Ohio Vax-2-School program, which will be open to Ohioans aged 12 to 25 years old, and will be similar to the scholarship portion of the successful Vax-a-Million program.
Prizes will include 50 scholarships worth $10,000 each and five $100,000 scholarships to an Ohio college or university for career or technical education. Prizes will be announced Monday through Friday beginning the week of October 11th. More details will be announced, including how to register, in the coming days.
BUS DRIVERS
Governor DeWine also made a public plea, after hearing from school districts across the state about the shortage of bus drivers. He asked any Ohioan with a CDL license that also has a bus driver certification, who are not employed, to contact their local school district, to help drive school busses, temporarily.
He also spoke with Attorney General Dave Yost who agreed that, moving forward, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation would prioritize required background checks for school bus drivers, educators, nurses, and other health care professionals.
CASE DATA & VACCINE INFORMATION
In-depth COVID-19 data for Ohio: coronavirus.ohio.gov. Ohio's central scheduling system: gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.gov All vaccine providers: vaccine.coronavirus.ohio.gov
As always, Coronavirus.Ohio.Gov and the Department of Health hotline, 1-833-4-ASK-ODH are great resources for those who have questions.
Thank you.