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| What you need to know on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 WEATHER
There is a chance to see some sunshine today, but clouds will move during the afternoon, bringing slight chances of rain. Highs will stay in the low 40s. There are more chances of showers overnight with lows in the upper 30s. Read more.
OVERNIGHT
Board of Health: Why would the Cuyahoga County Board of Health suddenly pivot from providing the public with day-old information about coronavirus infections to less helpful six-day-old information just as cases are spiking in the county and across Ohio? Board officials contend that they can’t do two things at once, and the less transparent reporting practice will eventually allow them to simultaneously monitor flu and coronavirus cases, Courtney Astolfi reports. The board said this is a standard system of epidemiological reporting used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hospital status: Officials from Ohio’s top hospitals said Monday the “exponential” growth in the state’s COVID-19 patients is starting to take a toll on their staff, leading to early signs of shortages of doctors and nurses. Andrew Tobias reports that hospitals are being stretched. Hospital chains have begun transferring ventilators and high-flow oxygen equipment to others where the equipment had run out.
This Week in the CLE: Across Northeast Ohio’s seven counties, cases are up 1,259% and big cultural institutions are shutting their doors. We’re putting the raging pandemic into perspective on This Week in the CLE, cleveland.com’s daily half-hour news podcast.
Another record: Ohio reported an increase of 11,885 coronavirus cases on Monday, setting a record for the state. Gov. Mike DeWine attributed the massive number to a flood of tests after a lab delay, Emily Bamforth reports. Hospitalization continues to increase, with 4,358 patients Monday, a 59% increase from two weeks ago. COVID trends: Ohio’s coronavirus case total has surged so much this fall that 1-in-32 residents statewide is now known to have contracted the virus, most of them during just the past five weeks. The addition of 11,885 cases reported by the Ohio Department of Health on Monday means that the total has doubled to 363,304, from 181,787 on Oct. 18, Rich Exner reports.
Thanksgiving travel: Travelers are expected to surge through Cleveland Hopkins International Airport this week for holiday travel, despite leaders urging people to stay home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. Hopkins officials have predicted 140,000 passengers could pass through the airport between Nov. 20 and Nov. 30. Robert Higgs reports that would be nearly one-half of the total number of passengers for all of September.
Tamir Rice: Lawyers for Tamir Rice’s family sharply criticized the Justice Department on Monday and demanded to know why it failed to convene a grand jury in the 12-year-old boy’s shooting death by police in 2014. The attorneys wrote a letter to Attorney General William Barr and sought an explanation as to why Barr’s office refused to listen to career prosecutors who sought the panel and why officials never notified the boy’s family about the decision not to pursue the matter, John Caniglia reports.
Beachwood shooting: An 18-year-old man is charged in connection with the Saturday shooting of a man outside Beachwood Place mall. Adam Ferrise reports Letraize Walker of Beachwood is charged with felonious assault and is currently in the Cuyahoga County Jail on $150,000 bond after his first appearance Monday in Shaker Heights Municipal Court.
Western Reserve Building: The owners of a historic office building in Cleveland’s Warehouse District want millions of dollars in tax incentives to renovate more than 40,000 square feet of space used by a marketing firm. Eric Heisig reports the proposed 30-year tax-increment financing district would allow the owners of the eight-story, 145,000-square-foot Western Reserve Building at 1468 W. Ninth St. to put money toward paying down debt and renovations instead of property taxes.
Jury trials: Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court’s judges voted on Monday to postpone all jury trials until at least Jan. 19 as the coronavirus surge continues to spread across the state. Cory Shaffer reports that with Cuyahoga County and Ohio continuing to log unprecedented numbers of cases, a majority of the court’s 34 judges voted against resuming the trials.
Bodies discovered: A Cleveland landlord discovered two dead tenants in an apartment building he owns on the city’s East Side, Olivia Mitchell reports. The bodies were found in separate beds in the apartment. Authorities could not identify one of the bodies due to advanced decomposition, although the landlord said the two men were brothers who lived together.
Safe Surrender: Fugitive Safe Surrender, a program that gained national acclaim for work that began in Cleveland, is creating a hotline amid the pandemic. John Caniglia reports that the U.S. Marshals are working with the Rev. C.J. Matthews of Mount Sinai Baptist Church in Cleveland and Bishop Joey Johnson of the House of the Lord Church in Akron to help those with outstanding warrants surrender.
Biden transition: Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said Monday that President Donald Trump’s administration should formally begin the process for former Vice President Joe Biden to take office in January. Portman wrote in an op-ed for the Cincinnati Enquirer that while voting irregularities have surfaced that are typical to any election, there remains “no evidence as of now of any widespread fraud or irregularities that would change the result in any state," Andrew Tobias reports.
COVID robot: A Solon company has created a kind of cousin to robotic vacuums, billed as being able to kill the deadly coronavirus on surfaces in your office or business using ultraviolet light. Peter Krouse reports the likely price will be $45,000.
Nighttown tip: One customer made sure Nighttown staff would have a bright spot on its final day for a while. Marc Bona reports a man left a $3,000 tip and told owner Brendan Ring to split the money among the staff. “You can’t write this stuff. You hear these stories once in a while around the country about a guy leaving a big tip. I had never experienced it in all my years here,” said Ring, who is closing the Cleveland Heights staple temporarily because of the coronavirus surge.
Shop small: Cleveland Shops, a new organization of independent, locally owned retailers, is making it easier to shop local for the holidays with a gift card that can be redeemed at any of the group’s 41 locally owned shops. Joey Morona reports the cards can be used at Cara’s Boutique, The Wine Spot and more.
Mansion tour: Cleveland.com’s sister site, Architectural Digest, takes you on a rapid-fire tour of 14 of the most luxurious mansions we’ve seen on the market, worth more than $600 million.
Music Box: Live music will be paused until at least the end of the year at the Music Box because of the coronavirus spikes in Ohio and a stay-at-home advisory issued in Cuyahoga County, Anne Nickoloff reports.
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AT&T launches 5G service in Cleveland, Akron Read more
Home for the holidays: After two weeks of partial on-site classes, Shaker schools back to fully-remote instruction Read more
Cleveland Heights council plans to shore up loopholes, add more teeth to foreclosure bond ordinance Read more
Lakewood City Schools remain remote with new guidelines allowing flexibility for in-person instruction Read more
Fairview Park City Schools moves to remote learning, prohibits winter sports spectators Read more
North Royalton places one-year moratorium on new discount stores Read more
North Royalton considers allowing food trucks to operate in town Read more
Neighborhood raises concerns about future Middleburg Heights plaza Read more
Trump won 3.1 million votes in Ohio, a state record, Associated Press compilation shows Read more
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