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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 Monday reported 897 new COVID-19 cases, the second-highest number of new cases reported in a Monday report since the beginning of the pandemic.
The state has reported more than 800 cases daily for eight straight days and in 12 of the previous 13 days.
U.S. cases have now surpassed the 6 million mark, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The state also reported the testing of 11,754 more individuals, the highest testing number reported so far in a Monday report. Testing of unique individuals has exceeded 8,000 in the daily report for 12 straight days.
Following 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.
COVID-19 cases
*New cases: 897
Total cumulative cases reported Monday: 94,196
Total cumulative cases reported Sunday: 93,313
Increase in cumulative cases: 883
Increase in cases reported Aug. 25-31: 6,596
Increase in cases reported Aug. 18-24: 5,611
Increase in cases reported July 1-Aug. 1: 21,170
Increase in cases reported June 1-July 1: 11,122
Increase in cases reported May 1-June. 1: 16,200
COVID-19 deaths
New deaths: 5
Total deaths: 3,077
Increase in deaths reported Aug. 25-31: 79
Increase in deaths reported Aug. 18-24: 72
Increase in deaths reported July 1-Aug. 1: 315
Increase in deaths reported June 1-July 1: 480
Increase in deaths reported May 1-June. 1: 914
COVID-19 testing**
New tested individuals: 11,754
Total cumulative tested individuals reported Monday: 1,076,947
Total cumulative tested individuals reported Sunday: 1,065,356
Increase in cumulative tested individuals: 11,591
Cumulative positivity rate unique individuals: 8.7%
Seven-day positivity rate unique individuals: 7%
Cumulative positivity rate all tests: 6.7%
Seven-day positivity rate all tests: 5.5%
Increase in tests reported July 1-Aug. 1: 268,890
Increase in tests reported June 1-July 1: 223,820
Increase in tests reported May 1-June. 1: 166,257
**The department began including antigen test results in its data on Aug. 24.
County numbers
Marion County cumulative cases: 18,466 (increase of 131)
Marion County new deaths: 0
Marion County cumulative deaths: 748
Marion County 7-day positivity rate unique individuals: 6.7%
Hamilton County cumulative cases: 3,914
Hendricks County cumulative cases: 2,329
Johnson County cumulative cases: 2,034
Madison County cumulative cases: 1,297
Boone County cumulative cases: 843
Hancock County cumulative cases: 823
Morgan County cumulative cases: 595
Shelby County cumulative cases: 619
Indiana intensive care unit usage
Available ICU beds: 41.3%
ICU beds in use by COVID-19 patients: 9.5%
Available ventilators: 83.1%
Ventilators in use for COVID-19: 2.7%
U.S. and worldwide numbers
As of Monday, from Johns Hopkins University:
U.S. cases: 6,002,615
U.S. deaths: 183,203
Global cases: 25,259,201
Global deaths: 847,107
*New cases, deaths and tests are previously unreported cases, deaths and tests submitted to the Indiana State Health Department in the 24 hours through 11:59 p.m. the previous day. The cases and testing categories typically contain numerous duplicates—as many as 20% or more—that are later eliminated from the cumulative totals.
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Don’t believe any of this. What are these numbers based on, false positives, some other flue. You’re all liars!
Tell that to the families and friends of the people sick or dying every day.
“For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death,” the agency says. In other words, 94 percent of those who died with COVID-19 already had two or more other serious health issues such as hypertension or diabetes.
Debbie deserves an apology.
Um, no.
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The other conditions don’t cause immediate death. Most are chronic conditions managed for years with drugs; the two most common are high blood pressure (hypertension) and diabetes. Those things may cause death someday, usually in old age, but catching COVID-19 impacts people with those conditions much worse and it causes their death as a result of catching the disease.
My neighbor has relatives in Jasper – one of the testing sites had everyone listed as Positive – people went to be retested and all came out negative. The first testing station was processing the tests incorrectly.
Tim O. – that is fake news.
125 people die per day in Indiana’s 6.7 million population.
When only 5 of those have Covid as a contributing factor, can’t we go back to our lives?
It’s pretty close to the leading cause of death this year. Among all the leading causes (cancer, heart disease, stroke, auto wrecks), it is the ONE that is highly contagious.
What Is IBJ become just another “Mouth piece” like CNN or ABC or NBC!
You can’t handle the truth? So blame the messenger?