From a Franklin County Commissioner press release Franklin County has been doing a good job of keeping our COVID-19 cases coming at a manageable and steady pace. This helps takes stress off our healthcare workers and schools. However, several of our neighboring counties have seen very large spikes in cases. With travel coming up for football …
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Fayette County has another additional death in the Thursday, November 5 ISDH report
By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County recorded its 26th death related to COVID-19, according to ISDH data released on Thursday, November 5. It is an addition of one death over Wednesday’s total. Indiana blew through its own one-day COVID-19 positive test results record with 4,462. It is almost 600 more than the old …
Fayette County, Union County and Indiana have bad COVID-19 positive test numbers
By John Estridge from ISDH data For Indiana, Fayette County and Union County, it was bad news in the number of new positive test results. After one day — Tuesday, November 3 — of recording less than 20 positive test results, on Wednesday, November 4, Fayette County had 36 new positive test results, making the …
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Fayette County has two COVID-19-related deaths
By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County reported two deaths attributed to COVID-19, according to information on the Indiana State Department of Health website for Tuesday, November 3. That brings the total of deaths in Fayette County attributed to the virus at 25, one less than Franklin County’s 26. Fayette County had an additional …
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COVID-19 positive test result numbers remain high in the Whitewater Valley and in the state
By John Estridge from ISDH data Numbers remained up for the state as well as three counties in the Whitewater Valley, concerning COVID-19 positive test results. For the state, it was another day of more than 3,000 positive test results, with the number at 3,080 for a grand total of 185,185. Fayette County was once …
Fayette County adds another COVID-19-related death
By John Estridge from ISDH data Another death in Fayette County was blamed on COVID-19 and Fayette County had an additional 18 positive tests, bringing its total to 925. The death increases the total in that county to 23. While Fayette County went beneath the at-least-20-per-day run it has been having, the county has reported …
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Fayette County and Indiana continue with bad positive test numbers
By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County and Indiana continue to have elevated positive COVID-19 test results, add to that 46 deaths in the state count, and Saturday, October 31, was frightful. Fayette County continued to have more than 20 positive cases in the past 10 days out of 11. Sunday, October 25, Fayette …
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Franklin County has another COVID-19-related death; Fayette County’s positive test results remain high
By John Estridge from ISDH data Franklin County had another COVID-19-related death, according to the Friday, October 30, Indiana State Department of Health statistics, bringing the county’s total to 26. Also, the county saw its first double-digit report of positive test results with 10, raising that total to 406. Fayette County continued its run of …
Fayette County has an additional one-day total of 40 positive COVID-19 test results; state sets one-day record with 3,649
By John Estridge from ISDH data Indiana set a one-day record for positive test results Thursday, October 29 with 3,649, breaking the old record by about 800. And Fayette County continued to have an alarming amount of positive test results with another 40 announced Thursday. In the last nine days, Fayette County has had 267 …
Another COVID-19-related death in Fayette County; all three counties are worse when compared to a week ago
By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County is now considered a red county in the ISDH color-coding scheme. In the color-coding scheme, red signifies the worst of the counties, orange is next bad, yellow is a step down and blue is the best. Union County is now orange and Franklin County is yellow. South …