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The conclusion comes after an audit on the state's coronavirus website.
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The University of Akron is underway with its COVID-19 wastewater monitoring project, where a team collects wastewater samples from on-campus facilties, attempting to measure copies of a gene from the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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The state purchased 2 million of the BinaxNOW tests with federal CARES Act funding.
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New coronavirus cases in Ohio shot up Thursday with more than 7,200 cases; Gov. Mike DeWine says the state will spend $50 million in federal pandemic aid dollars to buy 2 million coronavirus tests for at-home testing; the number of Ohioans filing initial unemployment claims jumped again last week; and more stories.
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Gov. Mike DeWine is calling on Ohioans to slow the spread of the coronavirus as Christmas approaches; Kent State University has been named as a target in a massive data breach linked to Russia; the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has given the Ohio National Guard a waiver to help administer the vaccine; and more stories.
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Employees at many facilities also say there is not enough personal protective equipment.
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Wednesday saw more than 10,000 new cases under the state’s new measuring system. It includes both confirmed and probable positive tests; the mother of a Black man fatally shot by an Ohio sheriff's deputy is demanding answers about her son's death; 78 inmates were infected with the coronavirus at the Cuyahoga County Jail as of Wednesday and nearly 400 more inmates are quarantining in specialized areas of the jail.
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Most in-person classes will start with remote learning, and students living on campus, among others, will be subject to mandatory coronavirus testing.
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"We Rate Covid Dashboards" is a group of public health and data analysts who grade university COVID-19 dashboards. The group gave Kent State an average rating of C+ for its effort to inform the college community of the prevalence of the virus during the pandemic.
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Thousands line up for first day of early in-person voting, Kent State University launches a broad COVID testing program and more of your morning headlines for October 7, 2020.