:17 - Akron City Council recently passed legislation to eliminate chokeholds for the city’s police officer. Fraternal Order of Police president Clay Cozart stated this wasn’t protocol in the first place, but neither he nor Chief Ken Ball were consulted beforehand. Cozart also talked about training inside the police department, and how that will be affected if the department gets defunded even more.
8:21 - Though the focus of late has been on protests and civil unrest, there is still a pandemic going on. Summa Health’s Dr. Thomas File talked about how there are still COVID-19 spikes across the country, Ohio is doing a solid job with social distancing. He also talked about potential vaccines and the story of just how rare asymptomatic people passing the disease is.
17:59 - Staying at Summa, president and CEO Dr. Cliff Deveny touched on the Coronavirus in the area, which is way down from its peak two months ago. Dr. Deveny also discussed the new Summa facilities coming to Tallmadge and the Stow-Kent areas.