In Marion County, “a large volume of absentee votes” will take days to get counted once that process begins on Tuesday, said Russell Hollis, deputy director of the Marion County Clerk’s Office. As a result, key races are not expected be decided on Election Night.
Cumulative numbers released by the Indiana State Department of Health show reported COVID-19 cases and deaths more than doubled in October compared with the previous month.
Hospitalizations due to COVID-19 hit 1,740 on Friday, the highest mark since April 13, when they reached an all-time high of 1,799.
Other than tracking schools and long-term-care facilities, the state doesn’t post any identifying data on a website or dashboard where people can identify COVID hot spots and track their spread.
The Republican has said repeatedly that he’d be willing to take a step back in the phased-in reopening if key data indicated the pandemic was worsening. But he has never made good on that threat.
But virtual appointments with physicians soared from 1,121 visits in the first nine months of 2019 to 327,432 in the same period this year, an increase of 29,000%
Those cleared included homes with mounting coronavirus outbreaks before or during the inspections, as well as those that saw cases and deaths spiral upward after inspectors reported no violations had been found, in some cases multiple times.
Thestates’ largest hospital system saw decreases in admissions, surgical cases, ER visits and inpatient days; overall, patient service revenue fell about 2.5% during the nine-month period.
The situation remains murky, as several drugmakers and research institutions are scrambling to develop a vaccine, but none have yet won approval from the Food and Drug Administration to distribute the drug.
Gov. Eric Holcomb, who announced the deployment last week, said the move is designed to protect Indiana’s “most vulnerable”—the elderly and infirm in nursing homes and residential communities. Nearly half of all COVID-19 hospitalizations in Indiana involve patients who are 70 or older, he said in his weekly press briefing Wednesday.
Eli Lilly and Co. said Wednesday that the U.S. government will accept 300,000 vials of the drug, called bamlanivimab, if the Food and Drug Administration grants emergency authorization for its use.
Questions remain about how the coronavirus affects children, how safe the programs are for children and their families, and which procedures work best to mitigate the spread of the virus and its disease, COVID-19.
The state on Sunday reported 12 new deaths due to COVID-19, the lowest number since Oct. 12. Newly reported deaths have been in double digits 18 times over the past 20 days.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Saturday reported 2,765 new COVID-19 cases, the second-highest number of new cases reported so far in the department’s daily report.
The United States is approaching a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases in the latest ominous sign about the disease’s grip on the nation.
Some of the AstraZeneca trials in the United States had been taking place at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis until they were paused in early September.
The Indiana State Department of Health has reported 205 new deaths due to COVID-19 over the past seven days, an average of 29.3 per day.
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, put their absentee ballots in a drop-off box about 8:15 a.m. Friday, shortly after the polls opened in the Indianapolis City-County Building.
In the campaign’s closing debate, President Trump and Joe Biden largely shelved the rancor that overshadowed their previous battle in favor of a more substantive exchange that highlighted different approaches to major domestic and foreign challenges facing the nation.
The joint statement by Indiana University Health, Community Health Network and Eskenazi Health is the latest pledge by Indianapolis-area business groups to address racial inequities.
