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• COVID-19 vaccination sites in Greene County

  By YS News StaffJanuary 16, 2021

  

  An excerpt of COVID-19 vaccination facilities in Greene County, from an extensive list available on the Ohio Department of Health website.

• COVID-19 update— Older residents next for vaccination

  By Megan BachmanJanuary 15, 2021

  

  On Friday, Jan. 8, Friends Care Community celebrated the arrival of pharmacy staff from CVS, there to administer the first round of COVID-19 vaccines.

• Caring for COVID’s sickest patients

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 22, 2020

  

  Yellow Springs resident Chasilee Crawford is an ICU, or intensive care unit, nurse at Springfield Regional Medical Center. She volunteered to work in the hospital’s designated COVID-19 specific ICU when it was formed last March, and has been caring for patients who are severely ill with the disease ever since.

• Health Commissioner Melissa Howell— A closer look at area surge

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Ohio saw a massive bump in COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, Dec. 8. That day, 25,721 new cases were reported, bringing the statewide case total well over the half-million mark since the pandemic’s start.

• COVID-19 update— Antioch College reports outbreak

  By Audrey HackettDecember 18, 2020

  

  After reporting just one COVID-19 infection during the fall quarter, Antioch College now has seven active cases on campus. Six students and one staff member tested positive for the virus over several days late last week, according to college spokesperson Christine Reedy.

• Virus impact grows in Yellow Springs

  By Audrey Hackett

  

  Three local businesses are closing for the winter during what their owners expect to be a grim few months of the pandemic. Whether other seasonal closures will follow in Yellow Springs remains to be seen.

• COVID-19 cases mount in YS

  By Audrey HackettDecember 5, 2020

  

  While the village has lagged surrounding communities in its rate and spread of COVID-19, local organizations and businesses are beginning to see — and in some instances publicly announce — more positive cases here.

• DeWine outlines vaccine distribution plan

  By Audrey HackettDecember 4, 2020

  

  Ohio is about 10 days away from receiving its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines. Frontline health care workers, emergency medical personnel and residents and staff at nursing homes, assisted living facilities and other congregate living settings will be the first recipients of the vaccine.

• Local COVID-19 response— Village steps up enforcement

  By Megan BachmanNovember 29, 2020

  

  As the third wave of the coronavirus rages through the state and county, the Village of Yellow Springs is cracking down on behaviors that could further spread COVID-19 in town.

• COVID-19 contact tracing— More cases, more contacts

  By Audrey HackettNovember 25, 2020

  

  The local health department’s contact tracing team now includes nine people, including employees from the Ohio Department of Health, part of the state’s scaled-up contact tracing workforce.