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Like many institutions that welcome the public into their buildings, libraries have had to rethink how to serve patrons during the coronavirus pandemic. Over the last few decades, libraries have made a concerted effort to make much of their material available online. Providing patrons access to that digital collection has proved invaluable in allowing libraries to “remain open,” even if their doors are physically closed.

Jessie Bennett, owner of Cleveland Hardwood Restoration, had just hired two additional full-time staff for her flooring business when the coronavirus crisis hit. They and one other staff member have since been laid off — temporarily, Bennett hopes — due to a large number of jobs being postponed. She's now operating a company that's about half the size it was less than a month ago.

Virtually all higher education classes in Northeast Ohio are being taught remotely through the end of the spring 2020 semester to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. But with Gov. Mike DeWine and Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton pointing to the coronavirus outbreak peaking in early to mid-May, higher education is trying to plan ahead. And college administrators are even looking beyond this semester when it comes to classes and programming.

With museums and cultural organizations closed indefinitely, area institutions face financial losses from the coronavirus. Beyond daily admissions, museums count on revenue from parking, cafes, gift shops and location rentals for events. All of that is at a standstill, and leaders of Cleveland museums are trying to guess when businesses will reopen.

Some Northeast Ohio artists are looking at the devastating economic blow of the COVID-19 crisis as a time to be creative.

The 1.5 million-year-old fossils of human ancestors recently unearthed in Ethiopia show sophistication in behaviors and tool use, said the Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) researchers who found them, despite one example having the smallest cranium of any specimen found in Africa to date. One Homo erectus female cranium found is a little less than half the size of our brains, said CWRU anatomy professor Scott Simpson, who worked with the team that discovered the fossils.

There are currently no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Ohio, but health officials are preparing for a possible outbreak in the state. Nursing homes, with large senior populations, will likely be ground zero, based on what has happened in other states.

Updated at 10am on Thursday March 19, 2020 Officials at Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals are revising how people can use their coronavirus drive-thru testing services. The two health systems partnered to offer drive-thru testing at two locations, one near the clinic’s main campus at the W.O. Walker Center, 10524 Euclid Ave, in Cleveland, and the other at the UH Landerbrook Health Center in Mayfield Heights.

Woodland Cemetery is one of Cleveland’s oldest, but it’s located in a neighborhood that doesn’t get a lot of love. After years of neglect, the front door of this 167-year-old site is getting a facelift. Surrounded by housing projects and battered real estate along Woodland Avenue on the East Side of town, Woodland Cemetery is the final resting place for a cross-section of Clevelanders, from the city's richest families to some unknown indigents.

University Hospitals is approved to begin clinical trials of an antiviral drug that could possibly help treat COVID-19 patients. UH will receive the antiviral Saturday.