The latest model from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation now indicates hospitalizations from COVID-19 in Indiana crested last week. It also predicts that far fewer Hoosiers will die from the disease than estimated earlier.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Monday reported that 44,539 people have been tested so far, up from 42,489 in Sunday’s report.
The decisions are complicated because each nation is on its own coronavirus arc, with some places seeing increasing daily levels of deaths or infections while others are stabilizing.
The auto industry—already fretting lengthy factory shutdowns and depressed new-vehicle demand—is starting to sound the alarm about a potential used-car price collapse that could have far-reaching consequences.
The justices last met in public on March 9. They have since issued opinions on the court’s website.
Many parents who now work remotely have been forced to manage their duties as employees, spouses and parents all at the same time and all in the same place. Podcast host Mason King asks human resources expert Liz Malatestinic and local families for strategies for staying organized and ahead of potential meltdowns.
The Capital Improvement Board of Marion County and Visit Indy said they are implementing several cost-cutting maneuvers ahead of expected drops in tax revenue over the next several months.
More than 70 companies have signed up to sell so-called antibody tests in recent weeks, according to U.S. regulators. The rapid tests typically use a finger-prick of blood on a test strip.
The true toll among the 1 million people who live in nursing homes and long-term care facilities is likely much higher, experts say, because most state counts don’t include those who died without ever being tested for COVID-19.
Stay-at-home and social distancing orders have put restaurant dining on hold, forcing many to close and leaving others barely surviving. Some are looking for new ways to generate revenue.
Shelters report large increases in the number of four-legged fosters since stay-at-home orders took effect—and while humans are advised to practice social distancing, dogs, well, they don’t know what that means.
OPEC, Russia and other oil-producing nations on Sunday finalized an unprecedented production cut in hopes of boosting crashing prices amid the coronavirus pandemic and a price war, officials said.
Some hospitals have reported unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators, and some doctors worry that the machines could be harming certain patients.
He says a “rolling re-entry” will be required based on the status of the new coronavirus pandemic in various parts of the country.
The state reported that 42,489 people have been tested so far, up from 39,215 in Saturday’s report.
That plasma can be transfused to critically ill patients who are struggling with the disease.
The technology works by harnessing short-range Bluetooth signals. Using the Apple-Google technology, contact-tracing apps would gather a record of other phones with which they came into close proximity.
But an administrator of energy-assistance programs says the funding “only scratches the surface” of what’s needed.
The death toll in the state rose to 330, up from 300 the previous day.
The state disclosed the by breakdown by race for the first time on Friday, and officials said they would begin posting the information on the health department’s web dashboard on Monday, with frequent updates.
