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Data Show COVID-19 Has Become A “Pandemic Of The Unvaccinated” In Ohio
By: David Forster
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — More than half of Ohio’s eligible population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and yet infection numbers are right back where they were a year ago. What’s going on? For starters, the Delta variant driving the recent surge is much more contagious than the initial strain that launched the global pandemic. It’s… Read More


The 65th COVID-Related Death Has Been Reported In Athens County, Along With 51 New Cases For Sept. 21
By: Aaron Payne
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — Athens County has now had 65 total deaths related to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic after one was added to the total Tuesday. The county also has now had 6,933 total cases of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic after 51 new cases were reported for the same day…. Read More

What Causes Long COVID Is A Mystery. Here’s How Scientists Are Trying To Crack It
By: Will Stone | NPR
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Updated September 20, 2021 at 11:44 PM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — A year and a half into the pandemic, doctors are getting better at recognizing long COVID — the collection of persistent health problems that some people develop after a coronavirus infection — but research has yet to pinpoint what could be driving the… Read More


Ohio Senator Matt Dolan Joins The Republican Race For U.S. Senate
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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CLEVELAND (Statehouse News Bureau) — There’s yet another candidate in the crowded race for the Republican nomination for US Senate. Sen. Matt Dolan (R-Chagrin Falls), chair of the Senate Finance Committee and part owner of Cleveland’s baseball team, has joined the contest that will be decided in the GOP primary in May. Dolan describes himself… Read More



The Man Who Built the Nation’s Largest Media Empire by the 1930s, “Citizen Hearst” on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Part Two TONIGHT at 9 p.m.
American Experience “Citizen Hearst” Premieres Monday and Tuesday, September 27 & 28 on PBS New Four-Hour Documentary Explores the Colorful Life and Times of William Randolph Hearst American Experience presents “Citizen Hearst,” an insightful biography of one of the most fascinating and powerful men of the 20th century. By the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst… Read More

Cable TV Executive Started Media Career at WOUB
Steve Matela graduated from Ohio University in 1969 ATHENS, OH – Steve Matela’s media career has taken him across the country. He’s worked as a radio personality in New York City and San Diego. It’s a career that Matela said would never have happened without Ohio University and WOUB. “I grew up in Cleveland, and… Read More