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Ohio’s children’s hospitals are overwhelmed due to an unprecedented increase in COVID-19 cases and other respiratory illnesses, and in some cases are having to turn patients away, Gov. Mike DeWine said in a press conference Tuesday.

Governor Mike DeWine's COVID-19 Briefing for September 14, 2021

A spokesman for the Ohio Hospital Association says contingency plans are being made.

On Sept. 11, 2001, current Akron Canton Airport CEO and President Ren Camacho was working for the New York and New Jersey Port Authority, which had offices on the 73rd floor of the north tower of the World Trade Center.

Nadia Zaiem was a 13-year-old 8th grader at a Westlake middle school on the day of the 9/11 terror attacks. She’d only started wearing a hijab, a Muslim head scarf, a month or two before, and was still “getting used to it and how people reacted to it,” she said.

Earlier in the pandemic, older Ohioans were most at risk. But pediatricians say the Delta variant means more children are coming down ill with COVID these days.

The county is dealing with hundreds of kids on quarantine because of exposure to COVID.

Some have even been forced to temporarily close their doors.

More than a thousand people have offered testimony for and against the bill.

Ohio State University is requiring all students and staff to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, becoming the first public university in the state to do so after the Food and Drug Administration gave full approval to Pfizer's shot.

Gov. Mike DeWine discontinued the benefits in June.

Gov. Mike DeWine said for three days in the past week, the number of confirmed and probable COVID cases has exceeded 3,000.