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Doctors estimate they can do 10 tests an hour — double the number in an indoor clinic.

A new poll found Ohioans approve of Gov. Mike DeWine’s response to the coronavirus pandemic so far. Administered by Baldwin Wallace University, the poll looked at attitudes of registered voters ahead of the 2020 election in four Midwestern states: Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Researchers originally aimed to assess attitudes on racism, sexism and environmentalism, said Baldwin Wallace Community Research Institute Assistant Director Lauren Copeland, but pivoted to focus on the coronavirus at the last minute.

In the early 1990s, Irina Parkman was living in Nizhny Novrogod, a city in western Russia. It was a proud place, she says, with a grand, red-brick kremlin — even its own regional anthem. "It’s a very big city that was founded in 1221, meaning as old as Moscow," she said, speaking in Russian. "It’s the place of two very famous rivers, the Volga and Oka."

After spending nearly three years on the road as a production assistant for The Wood Brothers band, Madalyn Stefanak was ready to make a change. After she completed her final tour with the group, she was going to move back to Cleveland from New York City to resume her studies and focus her attention on her freelance art career. The coronavirus changed Stefanak’s plans. The tour was canceled due to COVID-19, leaving Stefanak without her main source of income, her college plans in flux and unable to return home.

Clevelanders for Public Transit gathered outside the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (GCRTA) headquarters Tuesday, calling for budget cuts for transit police. The riders’ advocacy group wants 50 percent of RTA police funding to instead pay for fare reduction and route restoration. The GCRTA Board of Trustees received roughly a dozen public comments calling for cuts to the agency’s transit police force. But board members were resistant to the idea.

Cleveland resident Paula Morrison takes care of her 86-year-old mother, Lucille who, has dementia. “It seems like I’m working two full-time jobs now. We get up and everyone has to get bathed and clothed. And normally she attends the adult daycare, but right now with COVID the adult daycare is not open,” Morrison said. While many businesses in Ohio have received the green light to reopen, one exception is adult daycare. These are facilities for seniors to go during the day when family caregivers are at work or taking care of other responsibilities

Climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are not part of the $3 trillion in U.S. relief packages passed so far — despite a long history of funding energy programs after economic crises.

It’s summer, and usually, that would mean a wide variety of summer programs would be open for kids, like day camps or educational classes. The coronavirus outbreak, however, has changed the landscape for summer programs. Some are canceled, some are now online, and others that are still offering in-person programs look very different.

Cleveland officials are investigating more than two dozen violent incidents that took place during the holiday weekend. Officials say the spike in crime reflects larger trends nationwide, sparked by the coronavirus pandemic. Violence during the weekend included stabbings and shootings, said Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, as well as four homicides. The city normally sees a spike in violence over holiday weekends, Williams said, and this year it’s compounded by the already higher rates brought about since late February and early March.

University Settlement, a nonprofit community center, sits on a busy section of Broadway Avenue in Slavic Village: four lanes of cars, trucks, motorcycles, city buses. It's the kind of place where, if you want to make a visual statement, people will see it.