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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 Sunday said the number of presumptive positive cases for COVID-19 in the state has risen to 11,210, following the emergence of 569 more cases.
New reported cases were up from 487 on Saturday, but down from 613 on Friday.
The state said Sunday that the cumulative death toll in the state rose to 562, up from 545 the previous day—an increase of 17 deaths.
Deaths and positive cases are not always reported to the department immediately, which means the numbers can move inconsistently day to day.
The department reported the state’s first case on March 6.
The state reported that 61,142 people have been tested so far, up from 56,873 in Saturday’s report—an increase of 4,269 tests.
The increase in reported tests was the largest seen in a daily health department report since the beginning of the pandemic. The previous high was 4,174 on April 11.
The ISDH said the test numbers reflect only those tests reported to the department and the numbers should not be characterized as a comprehensive total.
Marion County reported 3,889 cases—up from 3,624 the previous day, an increase of 265 cases.
The state reported 192 cumulative deaths in Marion County, up from 190 in Saturday’s report. The state said 19,996 people have been tested in the county.
As for surrounding counties, Hamilton had 583 positive cases; Johnson 411; Hendricks 471; Boone 153; Hancock 143; Madison 332; Morgan 116; and Shelby 105.
More than half of the state’s cases have been reported in the nine-county Indianapolis area.
Every Indiana county has at least one case.
The department said 46.8% of the state’s intensive care unit beds were still available. About 23% are being used by COVID-19 patients.
The department also said 78.3% of the state’s ventilators were available.
The health department is providing case updates daily at noon based on results received through 11:59 p.m. the previous day.
Health officials say Indiana has far more coronavirus cases—possibly thousands more—than those indicated by the number of tests.
As of Sunday morning, 735,366 cases had been reported in the United States, with 39,095 deaths, according to a running tally maintained by health researchers at Johns Hopkins University & Medicine. More than 66,850 people have recovered.
More than 2.35 million cases have been reported globally, with 162,032 deaths. More than 605,100 people have recovered.
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How is that the total cases of recovered and deceased combined is lower than the total number reported? You either have it and are alive or not. Your 2.5 million cases number agains recovered and deceased doesn’t explain the status other roughly 1.5 million. Confused…
Which leaves the other “roughly 1.5 million” people who have tested positive either still fighting the virus ( not recovered, not dead). Or, underreporting of final outcomes of positive cases. More than likely a combination of both of these two.
That is purposely to make everyone to still be in a state of fear. The fact less are going to the hospital and using a ventilator are both down.
Is this a serious question? While I would like to see some clarification of the definition of “recovered”, the fact that you have it but haven’t died yet is far from recovered. We are 4-6 weeks into this. It takes at LEAST 2-3 weeks for an infection to run it’s course, if not longer.
So, we’ve tested 0.9% of the state’s 6.7 million people. “We’ve got the best testing!” We are not going to be out of the woods, or our homes safely, until we can ramp that up to at least 1/3 or 1/2 of the population. The related problem is we must do continuous testing (weekly/ bi-weekly/ monthly at a minimum) since negative today does not = negative a week from now.
As of today, there has been a total of 61,142 tests reported. The public needs to appreciate that, because of the shortage of testing capability AND only testing symptomatic individuals (and not ALL of symptomatic individuals), The incidence of the COVID-19 in our State is an underestimate. Remember, according to the US census bureau for 2019, there are 6,732,219 citizens in our State. This means that there have only been 0.9% of our citizens tested.
1. Why is Indiana not doing more testing?
2. Are there not more test kits available?
3. What is the information available of the asymptomatic carrier?
It appears to be quite clear that we, Hoosiers, are mainly on our own.. Our State government has worked with its resources but can only do so much. At minimum, it needs to continue to enforce its “hunker down” approach for everyone except for necessary business AT LEAST until the end of MAY. It needs to exponentially increase testing in symptomatic and asymptomatic individual. It needs to FIND and PROVIDE to our citizens, masks, gloves and hand sanitizer. It also needs to make it clearer to the public that these measures are the only way to deal with this type of pandemic. The Hoosier public, with all of its diversity, need to be better educated about COVID-19. Personal protection, isolation, and quarantine is crucial to contain this virus
As a small business owner, I have been severely affected by the pandemic. I, too, am unclear how my business will survive. However, I will do what I can to do my part and survive somehow!!
Any numbers they give in any media just disregard as they just want to keep all confused, scared, and angry!
More test kits are available now, more test being done, so the numbers are up.
The common cold and influenza come from Coronavirus.
As admitted from many sources including the nightly press meetings at the White House, the numbers are exaggerated because any detection of Coronavirus whether it’s the common cold or influenza is being tagged and reported as COVID-19. There isn’t no good reason for that.
Also those who like all of us as humans do test positive (We all do as its listed on a Lysol can) even if they die of cancer or any other condition, they tag and report those cases as COVID-19 as well!
We annually have a flu pandemic and we were and still are in one when the COVID-19 panic was created by MSM Socialist Marxist Communist Democrat Anarchist propaganda.
Do you hear or see anything in the MSM about the flu epidemic now days? Of course not because that’s predominately what they are calling COVID-19 now as to pump us those numbers again!
As Deep State Obama’s former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said, “We can’t let a good crisis go to waste.” ….and obviously they haven’t as they got their minion Dr. Tony Fauci at the wheel with his Draconian approach to the pandemic thus purposely prolonging the undue oppression of the people and thus the economy.
There needs to be a whole new approach to manage the situation with those of scientific integrity and not political prowess.
Not sure where you are getting info from, but COVID-19 IS NOT the same as a cold or flu! If you test positive for COVID-19, YOU HAVE COVID-19, NOT A COLD! I have 3 family members in health care,.and testing is not available unless you work in health care. This mentality is why we all need.to stay home.
Was the goal of shelter in place to flatten the curve? Aren’t we staying at home to make sure the health system isn’t overwhelmed? Well, it appears the curve is flattened and we have over 50% of the state’s ICU beds available and almost 80% of ventilators. What are we waiting on?
Are you thinking you want all the citizens of the country to test before they re-enter the workforce or the non-masked society?!? If so, that is a a foolish angle. Not a chance we’ll have even 50% of Hoosiers/Americans test. It’s futile. Give quarantine guidelines for pre-condition Covid candidates and over 60. They don’t have to be exposed if they don’t leave their homes. Economic ruin far outweighs the minimal death rate of this virus. And, frankly, if you catch it, our health system is ready for you.
So it appears there’s also a downside to extending life expectancy — elders get to live long enough to see just how much they are valued by the youngers.
This will not be over in Indiana until New York says it’s over.
It appears that many of the above comments are made by individuals who do not have much understanding of what a pandemic is or how it can be treated. It is extremely important to realize that by definition a pandemic, in its simplest explanation, is an illness caused by a bug that is very contagious and has NO KNOWN TREATMENT!!! Containment and mitigation are the ways to TREAT such a situation, initially. Remember, in modern times, we have new tools to at least recognize our enemy, i.e. testing for the presence of the virus in individuals who have potential symptoms of the disease as well as testing for the presence of the virus in asymptomatic carriers who may infect other people. Of course, if there is a shortage of testing, then you have no real idea the extent of the disease in the population. Testing in general so far have only been 20% correct in a symptomatic population since the symptoms of COVID-19 resembles other upper respiratory infections of viral origin. So our surveillance so far has been limited by definition and probably is just the tip of the iceberg. So what are other approaches for the treatment beyond containment and isolation. There is now the huge void. There are no proven treatments for individuals have come down with COVID-19 and need to be hospitalized. Health care facilities around the country and a lot more sophisticated than what we have here in Indiana, have been trying everything imaginable that has been remotely if suggestive that may helpful to the the disease. The results are very disappointing in spite of heroic efforts including every drug imaginable, ventilators, ECMO (do your homework and find out about this treatment.) Many, many clinical trials are being conducted at break neck speeds to find medications to treat these sick individuals. Getting someone into an ICU for COVID-19 is absolutely no guarantee survival. In fact, some data indicate that 85% who need a ventilator succumb to their disease anyway. It will be a while before EFFECTIVE treatments are going to be available. As all exerts have said, the biggest help is going to be a vaccine to mitigate COVID-19. It will take 1-2 years before this will be available. SO, on the short term, the CURRENT treatment for COVID-19 is isolation (“stay at home”, quarantine (when cases are detected), social distancing (at least 6+ feet), and personal protective equipment (mask, gloves). This is best treatment we have now. The public needs to understand this. I realize the economic devastation that this is having on all of us. So far, I have lost 75-80% of my business. Do not blame the State and local government for trying to deal with this pandemic. Both have been hampered by limited resources. Blame the Federal Government for not initiating any plan or instituting any mitigation when it would have made a difference late last fall. We are suffering for its continued inaction. Things would not be in the chaotic situation that we have now.
This reasonable take is called into question by your last 3 sentences. The Fed Gov should have had a plan last fall? Hard to take the rest of the post seriously after that