“Ohio under COVID exemplifies a quote by Fissell et al. the editors cite: ‘pandemics are global phenomena, but they are lived locally.’ What better state than Ohio to focus on as it reflects the various geographic and cultural divisions of the larger United States? This open access book provides us with a much-needed example of public health humanities that brings together authors from academia and the community to more deeply examine how the COVID pandemic impacted individuals and institutions at a state and local level.”—Kayhan Parsi, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine