Stephen Michael Kellat

Talking numbers

Stephen Michael Kellat at

We need to contextualize numbers here.


Ohio counties with the most coronavirus cases:


Franklin: 4,227

Cuyahoga: 3,066

Marion: 2,431

Pickaway: 1,990

Hamilton: 1,927


Franklin County is the state capital where you find Columbus.

Cuyahoga County is where you find Cleveland and its suburbs.

Marion County has a very, very large men's prison.

Pickaway County has a very, very large men's prison.

Hamilton County is where you find Cincinnati.


Ohio counties with the most coronavirus deaths:


Lucas: 195

Cuyahoga: 157

Franklin: 150

Mahoning: 138

Hamilton: 105


Lucas County is where you find Toledo.

Cuyahoga and Franklin have already been addressed.

Mahoning County is where you find the notorious Youngstown.

Hamilton County has already been addressed.


Ohio has a mixture of urban, suburban, and rural populations. This has been hitting us hardest in our urban populations as well as in our confined populations such as prisons as well as nursing homes. Ashtabula County authorities don't like talking about how high a percentage of both the infections and deaths from COVID-19 here stem from just the nursing homes. 111 cases are linked to nursing homes in Ashtabula County out of our 212. That's 52% of our cases in just two care facilities and adding in Lake Erie Correctional Institution in Conneaut (LAECI) gives us another 25 infected.


What's not being listened to in Dr. Acton speaking? GIVE EACH OTHER SPACE! Being packed in together like sardines is not good for you and the urban densification pipedreams I've seen out there do have potentially adverse human health consequences regardless of their purported positive environment saving outcomes.


See: https://fox8.com/news/coronavirus/ohio-gov-dewine-to-hold-coronavirus-news-conference-6/

See also: https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/long-term-care-facilities/cases

See also: https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/wps/portal/gov/covid-19/dashboards/overview

See also: https://coronavirus.ohio.gov/static/DRCCOVID-19Information.pdf