The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- City of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio · Columbus · Ohio
- Level
- County
- Authority
- Advisory of the two health commissioners (R.C. ch. 3709); CDC guidance for areas of substantial transmission
- Issued
- 2021-08-05 Aug. 5, 2021
- Effective
- 2021-08-05
- End
- Until further notice; overtaken by the Sept. 10, 2021 mandates (read as 2021-09-10)
- In force
- Aug. 5, 2021 to Sept. 10, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Face-covering requirementOther
- Addressees
- all residents of Columbus and Franklin County
- businesses and public places
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Columbus MET-CMH
Operative words
Columbus Public Health and Franklin County Public Health issued a mask advisory today urging everyone to wear a mask indoors and in crowded areas regardless of vaccine status until further notice. The advisory follows the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance for an area with substantial community spread of COVID-19.
Enforcement
None; advisory. It is the finding recited by the Municipal Court's Administrative Order 12-2021 (Ex. MET-CMH-044) and by the Common Pleas court's Thirteenth General Order (Ex. MET-CMH-046) as the basis for their mandatory masking orders, and by Bexley for its Aug. 20, 2021 facilities rule
Notes
Franklin County positivity had 'more than doubled from 1.3% to 2.8%' in four weeks; 50.3 percent of residents fully vaccinated as of Aug. 2, 2021.
Retrieval noteThe issuing agency's own release; the advisory is not an order and is so described.