COLUMBUS, Ohio - On Wednesday afternoon, the state released a number of people who have been tested for the new coronavirus: 14,764.

The number of negative tests haven’t been reported since March 15.

The Ohio Department of Health is testing people for coronavirus, as well as several state hospitals and some private labs.

“As the COVID-19 response has developed, labs (hospitals and private) are now voluntarily providing ODH testing results,” said Melanie Amato, press secretary for the Ohio Department of Health. “The testing number is still not 100 percent accurate due to a small handful of labs still working on providing this data, but it is a better picture of the testing being done in Ohio.”

Ohio law doesn’t require hospitals and other privately-owned facilities to share their negative results.

As of Wednesday afternoon, there were 704 confirmed coronavirus infections and 10 deaths, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

That means, roughly 5% of tests are coming back positive.

What about the 100,000 infection estimate?

On March 12, Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton said there had been two documented cases of “community spread," of disease, meaning people who hadn’t traveled to overseas coronavirus hotspots or interacting with a known infected person.

From the number of two people getting it through community spread, she estimated 1% of Ohio’s 11.7 million population were infected, over 100,000 people.

How many estimated people have it today? Acton said she didn’t know.

She clarified on Wednesday that earlier in the month, she was trying to convey to the public that infections were sprinkled throughout Ohio, and not just in one area -- as it had been in the onset in China, when it was located in Wuhan city.

The 1% figure she said came from modeling, working backwards from data at the time.

“It came from working backwards from what we knew at that time, which is 40 to 70% of all of us, all of us, will get this virus in the course of a year.," she said. "Those numbers, I’ve seen 56% in one study. That’s varying but that was the best science at the time. And I also knew when we would start to peak. We actually looked at some modeling others were doing at the time.”

Unemployment details

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said there’s a need for drivers in the health care and grocery industries. The U.S. Department of Transportation is lifting some requirements for a commercial driver’s license, he said.

Unemployment.ohio.gov didn’t crash today, which has occurred in the past, Husted said.

Bad-acting employers

If employers don’t follow the state’s stay-at-home order to allow remote working and physically distance employees who have to come in, their employees and competitors will report them, Husted said.

Gov. Mike DeWine said that the state has hesitated to list specific industries that need to keep employees at home.

“There’s a limit to how certain you can be, because if you say a specific businesses” there will be times if they are doing something considered essential under the order, he said.

DeWine said the state is taking action, beginning today, against a company that’s not complying. He didn’t identify the company.

“Enforcement is coming," Husted said. "We can’t have people who are violating because it’s not fair.”

What about the homemade masks?

The trend of home-sewn masks can be effective when a mask wearer coughs or sneezes, because they prevent respiratory droplets from spreading, Acton said.

They are not as effective as N95 masks that keep a microscopic virus from coming into the mouth or nose of the wearer, she said.

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