COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Health still doesn’t release the number of positive coronavirus cases among vaccinated Ohioans, despite nearly a year passing since the first shots arrived in the Buckeye State. Ohio has entered a new wave in the pandemic. COVID-19 hospitalizations in Northeast Ohio have shot up, and some facilities have postponed elective surgeries to devote more resources to fighting the coronavirus. Yet, the state doesn’t plan to release breakthrough case data beyond cases that result in hospitalizations and deaths that it currently updates on Thursdays. Since Jan. 1, Ohio experienced 2,289 hospital admissions among vaccinated patients, compared to 40,227 unvaccinated hospitalizations and 594 deaths among the vaccinated, compared to 12,372 deaths of the unvaccinated. Ohio Department of Health spokeswoman Alicia Shoults, while not specifically saying why the state isn’t making public coronavirus breakthrough cases, said that vaccines have a good track record at preventing severe…
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