Health & Science

As the COVID-19 pandemic raged across the globe last year, the Cleveland Clinic health system served more patients than at any other time in its 100-year history.

The study looked at every instance in 2015 when an EMS responder used naloxone in an attempt to stop an opioid overdose including from prescription pills to heroin to fentanyl.

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

The Ohio Department of Health blames an electronic lab processing error for an undercount Tuesday.

The physical effects could be shortness of breath, fatigue, dizziness, heart palpitations, lingering cough, and joint or muscle pain. For a lot of people with physical jobs, that weakness could cause them to not be able to carry out the basic functions of their jobs. Experts also say some people are also developing depression or anxiety due to their long-haul COVID symptoms.

A MetroHealth infectious disease specialist says omicron looks so different than the original virus or any of the other variants that the antibody treatment no longer recognizes the virus.

Medical Director Dr. Maureen Ahmann says many are simply leaving the health care field.

UH caregivers must be fully vaccinated by March 15, according to a statement from the hospital system.

Hospitalizations are down in Northern Ohio but going up in Southern Ohio.

Members of the U.S. Air Force medical team including nurses, doctors and respiratory specialists will help shore up the health system that has been battered by the recent surge in COIVD-19 cases fueled by the omicron variant.