"What we want is for people to wear a mask and try to stay safe so that no one has to do anything extreme," Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus told the Cincinnati Enquirer, adding that neither she nor DeWine wants to shut down businesses. The Ohio Department of Health's guidance for those in purple counties is "stay at home/necessary travel only." But local officials haven't received guidance on how that would be implemented. What changes if either county reaches that purple level? It's not clear. (A county must hit six or more indicators two weeks in a row to reach level 4, according to a state health department order.) That was enough to kick both into the most serious alert level: purple, but the state put both on notice last week instead. Mike DeWine's new county-by-county alert map, both Hamilton County and Butler County have hit six of the seven health metrics – ranging from new cases per capita to intensive care unit bed capacity – that warn of a problematic increase in COVID-19 spread. Ohio counties are finding themselves on the cusp of the state's most serious designation for spread of the novel coronavirus.
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