• From left are Andrea Gwyn, president of Mercy Hospital Perrysburg, Wood County Health Commissioner Ben Robison, and Wood County Commissioner Doris Herringshaw.
    From left are Andrea Gwyn, president of Mercy Hospital Perrysburg, Wood County Health Commissioner Ben Robison, and Wood County Commissioner Doris Herringshaw.

    As the nation and world emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, health departments are looking into the future and what lies ahead.

    At the November 16 meeting of the Perrysburg Area Chamber of Commerce, Ben Robison, Wood County health commissioner, provided an overview of “COVID in the Rearview.”

    He began with some sobering statistics. In the county, there have been a total of 36,902 cases reported, resu…