Ohio Deploys Additional 1,250 National Guardsmen to Hospitals

National Guard troops walk past a recruitment sign for the Army National Guard in Washington, on Jan. 19, 2021. Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Ohio is not shutting down, there is not a mask mandate in place, but the state is buckling down against the surge it is seeing in the COVID-19 pandemic.

On Wednesday, Gov. Mike DeWine announced that 1,250 more members of the Ohio National Guard are being deployed to hospitals throughout the state. That is in addition to the 1,050 that were deployed earlier this month.