The Hill:
"We know now, just the fact of community spread, says that at least 1 percent, at the very least, 1 percent of our population is carrying this virus in Ohio today," Acton said. "We have 11.7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. So that just gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and is spreading quickly."
The Columbus Dispatch offered effusive praise of Acton for being a "voice of knowledge."
Amid the increasing fear and confusion of the coronavirus
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...pandemic, a voice of knowledge reassures Ohioans every day.
At daily live-streamed press briefings, Dr. Amy Acton follows Gov. Mike DeWine’s announcement of orders and restrictions with calm explanations of outbreaks and community spread.
Speaking candidly but calmly, the director of the Ohio Department of Health translates complex medical theory to plain English, then immediately lets her humanity shine through.
"We all, myself included, need to learn to live through something we’ve never dealt with before," she said at Thursday’s briefing.
What an incredible human being, to let her humanity "shine through" like that. Brings a tear to my eye, it does.
But Director Acton forgot to mention a small detail about her Apocalypse Now statement; it wasn't true.
The Hill:
The director of Ohio's Department of Health said Friday her statement the previous day that 100,000 people in the state currently have coronavirus was based on "guesstimating," casting doubt on the high number.
"I am not saying there are absolutely for certain 100,000 people, I'm saying I'm guesstimating," the director, Dr. Amy Acton, said at a news conference.