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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowFollowing are the latest COVID-19 numbers from the Indiana State Department of Health. The department updates its data daily based on information received through 11:59 p.m. the previous day. Indiana has seen rising case numbers over the past seven days compared with the previous week.
COVID-19 cases
*New cases: 385
Total cumulative cases reported Tuesday: 45,594
Total cumulative cases reported Monday: 45,228
Increase in cumulative cases: 366
Increase in cases reported June 24-30: 2,723
Increase in cases reported June 17-23: 2,085
COVID-19 deaths
New deaths: 16
Total deaths: 2,448
COVID-19 testing
*New tests: 7,818
Total cumulative tests reported Tuesday: 484,196
Total cumulative tests reported Monday: 476,519
Increase in cumulative tests: 7,677
Percentage of total testing positive: 9.4%
County numbers
Marion County cumulative cases: 11,329 (increase of 50)
Marion County new deaths: 2
Marion County cumulative deaths: 679
Hamilton County cumulative cases: 1,463
Hendricks County cumulative cases: 1,366
Johnson County cumulative cases: 1,232
Madison County cumulative cases: 642
Boone County cumulative cases: 421
Hancock County cumulative cases: 418
Morgan County cumulative cases: 318
Shelby County cumulative cases: 414
Indiana intensive care unit usage
Available ICU beds: 40.4%
ICU beds in use by COVID-19 patients: 10.9%
Available ventilators: 83%
Ventilators in use for COVID-19: 3.3%
Indiana long-term-care facilities (updated June 29)
New cases: 195
Total cases: 5,342
New deaths: 26
Total deaths: 1,166
Facilities with at least one case: 277
Facilities with at least one death: 178
U.S. and worldwide numbers
As of Tuesday morning, from John Hopkins University:
U.S. cases: 2,557,980
U.S. deaths: 125,824
Global cases: 10,189,350
Global deaths: 502,634
*New cases and tests are previously unreported cases and tests submitted to the Indiana State Health Department in the 24 hours through 11:59 p.m. the previous day. This category typically contains numerous duplicates—as many as 20% or more—that are later eliminated from the cumulative totals.
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Why aren’t these numbers “per capita”? Aren’t numbers alone misleading?
I ate three bowls of ice cream–good or bad. Bad if per hour?
Why must your headlines and commentary almost always present Covid-19 numbers in the worst possible way with little or no context? There was a greater increase in testing for this day which naturally led to more new positives. The percentage of those tested who were positive was 4.76%. Our overall positive testing percentage keeps dropping and is now 9.4%. For context, in the early weeks and months of Covid-19 it was not unusual for 17% to 22% of those tested to be positive for Covid-19.
Is it any wonder that calls to suicide prevention hotlines are through the roof when the IBJ and other media outlets report Covid-19 in the scariest way possible?
MY problem is we are not being given the whole truth on the number of cases. The media is only giving us part of the story. They are only giving us numbers that support there position.
See article and link below for the REAL STORY.
“Here’s What the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Coronavirus ‘Second Wave”
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/heres-what-the-media-isnt-telling-you-about-the-coronavirus-second-wave/?fbclid=IwAR1Q-E-pgfItyxb7uT4GvrlxYj8SakTQXs–C7M8LPocNiFcLpuHqcHRxZI