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THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 CINCINNATI.COM PART OF THE USA TODAY NETWORK Our history: Pilot who dropped atomic bomb attended UC LOCAL, 9A QEAJAB-10101x Volume 180th No. 119 Home delivery pricing inside Subscribe 800-876-4500 $2.50 The Cincinnati Enquirer Weather High Low Sunny. Forecast, 2A Votto adjusts, reinvents himself Reds first baseman called of the best hitters of Sports, 1C With scores still missing from blast, Beirut streets teem with rescuers. 1B Sixteen people at a nursing home in Westwood neighborhood have died of COVID-19 during an out- break that infected 75 residents, ac- cording to state health documents. More than two dozen also tested positive for the virus.

The number of deaths at Mercy Fran- ciscan at West Park is the highest known deaths at a Southwest Ohio nursing home since the pandemic start- ed in March. It immediately known when the outbreak occurred. The information was included in an infection control re- port dated June 18. review of facility documents re- vealed the facility had an outbreak of COVID-19 with 75 total residents testing positive, 16 resident deaths, 26 facility and four agency testing the report stated. A statement from Nanette Bentley, spokeswoman for Bon Secours Mercy Health, the Cincinnati-based health care system that operates the nursing home, said: Health we have residents who have tested positive for and who have died from COVID-19 at West Park Senior Living.

Virus kills 16 in nursing home State report cites lapses in infection control See NURSING HOME, Page 4A Deon J. Hampton Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK NORWOOD When Molly Schneider hiked the Appalachian Trail, people kept asking her why. Some hikers had profound answers about self- discovery, or talked about trying to change the nar- rative of their lives. Schneider had nothing to say other than, wanted always been an adventurous person. Ev- ery year for her birthday, starting when she was a teenager, her father took her to West Virginia for a festival at what she calls one of the most danger- ous rivers in the world the Gauley.

In high school, she heard about the Appa- lachian Trail. As a junior, she made it her goal to complete the hike from Georgia to Maine. else is planning careers, plan- ning hiking the Appalachian she said. So when she moved to Columbus in 2013 and took her job after college, she told her bosses she would quit in a few years to hike the trail. They thought she was joking.

OVER THE EDGE She broke her neck falling 3 feet. In her wheelchair, she plans to rappel down a 357-foot building. Molly Schneider, who is quadriplegic, think she would be able to rappel again. On Friday, she will be rappelling in her wheelchair 24 stories down the Chase Tower in Columbus to raise money for charity. AMANDA ENQUIRER See RAPPEL, Page 9A Keith BieryGolick Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK This back-to-school deci- sions are confounding.

Who cares what gym shoes your kid wants. Will gym even be in the mix? The questions these days are more like, I even send my kid to a Never has there been a return to school like fall 2020, and parents and guardians (along with their kids) are likely and understandably anxious. If in Greater Cincinnati, you may be considering alternatives to march- ing the kids into a school building, choosing your remote learn- ing plan (along with all of those strug- gles) or homeschooling. To help, The Enquirer presented three infectious disease or COVID-19 doctors with questions have to consider for their own kids. Send kids to school? We asked doctors Terry DeMio Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK Never has there been a return to school like fall 2020, and parents and guardians (along with their kids) are likely and understandably anxious.

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