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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe Indiana State Department of Health on Saturday morning said the number of presumptive positive cases for COVID-19 in the state has risen to 1,232 after the emergence of 251 more cases.
The death toll in the state has risen to 31, up from 24 the previous day.
The department reported that 8,407 people have been tested so far, up from 6,936 people in the previous day’s report. The ISDH said the test number reflects only those tests reported to the department and the numbers should not be characterized as a comprehensive total.
Marion County reported 584 cases—up 100 cases from the previous day—with 10 deaths.
Other area counties with cases are Hamilton (64), Johnson (52), Hendricks (36), Boone (8), Hancock (19), Madison (12), Morgan (14) and Shelby (10).
The health department is providing case updates daily at 10 a.m. based on results received through midnight.
Health officials say Indiana has far more coronavirus cases—possibly thousands more—than those indicated by the number of tests.
Cases have been confirmed in more than 70 of Indiana’s 92 counties so far.
As of Saturday morning, 104,860 cases had been reported in the United States, with 1,711 deaths, according to a running tally maintained by health researchers at Johns Hopkins University & Medicine. More than a third of deaths occurred in New York and Washington state.
The United States now has more cases than any other country.
More than 615,500 cases have been reported globally, with 28,717 deaths. More than 35,700 people have recovered.
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Personally, I’m getting a little tired of this “the United States has more cases than any other country.” That may be true…or it may not be true. What would be more meaningful would be if the figure was cited as a percentage of the population, since we have some, what, 360,000,000 people now? And who would be foolish enough to believe anything coming out of China about this anyway?
Exactly. Not that it matters, but zero chance we have more cases than China, or maybe even Iran
It would be easy for the US to have more cases than China with the bungled and delayed response we have had. Remember China had been whacked by very similar problems about 2 or 3 times in the last 10 years. Their leadership actually thought this was real threat, just like the previous US administration did.
It is gong to get much worse unless we can get the TEST and TRACE procedures up to full strength. South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore all managed to stop the virus WITHOUT shutting down the economy. They mobilized a big public health drive to do extensive testing and then dedicated the manpower to trace the path of every person with a positive test to worn all of their close contacts. The testing per capita in South Korea is 10 times what has happened in the US so far.
If the IBJ is your only good source of local news, then hooray for you. I hope you have a subscription because good journalism is worth paying for, but for national and international coverage, I suggest you pick up a subscription to the New York Times. They have graphic data on per capita statistics to make meaningful comparisons.
About 54k cases show a final, death or recovered. So 561k are in limbo, asymptomatic, false positives. Seems to be a vague way of keeping a good count.
The American public has been very patience and accommodating trying to ‘play ball’ in this supposed pandemic environment. We all seem to pick news sources that align with our personal beliefs, so we might believe what we want. Here’s a fact 90+ people die every day in automobile accidents, should we outlaw cars? We must get back to work.
And 100% of people have a choice to get inside of an automobile and risk their lives. A pandemic disease is a little different….
Babies in car seats have no choice to get in a car. As for adults and choice, everyone is ordered to stay home to save lives from a virus, but there’s no such order to prevent automobile fatalities (~70 a month in Indiana, compared to 31 COVID-19 deaths this month).
Supposed Pandemic? Are you serious with that statement? What rock are you living under, it truly is a worldwide pandemic , but the only thing that should concern you is the increased rate being seen in Marion County , it jumped by 100 cases in a day! We haven’t even seen the peak of this yet here in Indiana, it will continue to increase which is unfortunate. However, if people would just do simple hygiene care it would reduce the spread.
Washing of your hands is the #1 preventative to stop the spread , along with covering your mouth & nose when you cough &/or sneeze, and then washing your hands after that event. If you cannot wash your hands due to not being near soap & water , then YES use a hand sanitizer, but you must still wash your hands even after sanitizing. People unfortunately will be people and never listen or read as to how simple it really is to stop the spread of this virus. Wake up and use your god given intelligence and stop comparing this things like car accidents… unbelievable.