Ohio Department of Health

Weeks after it was discovered that thousands of deaths were not recorded, the state's Health Department is switching to a new process.

Employees have been put on administrative leave, resigned or have been reassigned as an investigation continues into how thousands of deaths have been left out of the state's coronavirus numbers.

Ohio's Health Department says it's restructuring its infectious disease division following the discovery of as many as 4,000 unreported COVID-19 deaths; the Ohio State Highway Patrol says the cost of providing security after the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach was more than $2.4 million; beginning next week, Ohio will expand coronavirus vaccine eligibility to people diagnosed with an ongoing, high-risk medical condition; and more stories.

More deaths are expected to be added to the data in the next few days.

Authorities say shots were fired over the weekend into a home owned by an Ohio health department official; beginning today, Ohioans age 75 and older are eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine; the state reported 4,481 cases of COVID-19 on Sunday and 31 deaths; and more stories.

The Ohio Department of Health has expanded the number of maps illustrating the surge in coronavirus cases.

State lawmakers have been considering overriding Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of a bill that would limit his ability to enact health orders like the ones he put in place closing the state’s businesses back in the spring due to the pandemic.

Health departments around Ohio cannot keep up with efforts to contact each COVID-19 positive case and trace their contacts to reduce spread. A nonprofit that has worked with Ohio to develop its contact tracing program during the pandemic, is urging people to contact trace themselves.

Professor Tara Smith foresees further spikes in cases and doesn't believe the stay-at-home advisories for some counties are effective.

According to the Ohio Department of Health, there is no deadline to resolve the backlog.