Ohio drops to near 144 coronavirus cases per 100,000 over last two weeks in inching toward Gov. DeWines goal – cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ohio has moved closer toward reaching Gov. Mike DeWines test before he will lift state health orders, but remains well short of the governors threshold of 50 new cases per 100,000 residents over the last two weeks.

Cleveland.com estimates the state will report in its weekly update Thursday afternoon a rate close to 144 cases per 100,000 residents.

This would be an improvement over 155 cases per 100,000 reported last week, and the 179 cases per 100,000 reported two weeks ago when DeWine announced his plans on lifting the health orders.

The official number released by the state likely will differ some from the cleveland.com estimate, mainly because its unknown how many of the new cases involve incarcerated people. Two weeks ago, the state removed about 100 cases from its calculations because of this, a health department spokeswoman said.

These rates are not based on the daily reports of new cases, but rather cases in which symptoms are known to have begun in the last two weeks.

Ohio was last below the 50 cases per 100,000 over two weeks in June and was as high as 845.5 cases in December, according to this measure, the Ohio Department of Health has reported.

The Ohio Department of Health a week ago reported 155 coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents with an onset of symptoms in the previous two weeks, down from a high of 845.5 in mid-December. This rate excludes cases involving incarcerated individuals.Ohio Department of Health

County rates

Here are the rates by county. These rates include incarcerated individuals.

Rich Exner, data analysis editor for cleveland.com, writes about numbers on a variety of topics. Follow on Twitter @RichExner. See other data-related stories at cleveland.com/datacentral.

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