More than 50,000 Ohio children tested positive for COVID-19 in December as the virus surged around the state.
More Ohio children were diagnosed with COVID-19 in December than any month since the start of the pandemic, and experts fear even more kids could be infected as they returned to schools this week following holiday gatherings.
So far in the new year, 23 individual schools that are part of Columbus City Schools, Reynoldsburg City Schools and Westerville City Schools have been forced to pivot to remote learning due to staffing shortages, bus driver shortages or heating issues. The omicron variant of COVID-19 accounted for 25% of all Ohio cases while the delta variant made up nearly 75% of all Ohio cases for the two weeks ending Dec. 18, according to the latest data available from the Ohio Department of Health. Nationwide, the omicron variant is already thought to have overtaken delta as the dominant strain of the virus.
"We have been very clear that we believe kids should remain in the classroom with all mitigation practices in place," Newman said. Westerville schools has yet to shorten its quarantine period, hesitating out of an abundance of caution. Instead, Westerville is sticking with a 10-day quarantine with the option to test back to school on day eight, Kellogg said.
As cases among Ohio kids reached an all-time high in December, Nationwide Children's was nearing its 1,000th patient admitted with symptomatic COVID since March 2020, said Morse. The hospital has also treated another roughly 700 patients who tested positive for the virus while being seen for another reason, Morse said.
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