Fayette County has an additional three more COVID-19-related deaths; Franklin County goes to red status

By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County recorded three more deaths in the statistics released Wednesday, November 18, by the Indiana State Department of Health. While it also recorded 27 more positive test results, Fayette County was downgraded from red to orange on the ISDH’s color-coded map. Union County was also moved down from …

Indiana records 84 COVID-19-related deaths reported on ISDH dashboard for Tuesday, November 17; Fayette County adds another death to total

By John Estridge with ISDH data Indiana reported 84 COVID-19-related deaths regarding the Indiana State Department of Health daily report on its dashboard. One of those deaths came from Fayette County, making 28 people who have been reported to die from COVID-19-related reasons in Fayette County. Fayette County also had an additional 34 positive test …

Franklin County doubles its Sunday total of positive test results in ISDH’s daily update

By John Estridge from ISDH data Franklin County doubled its number of positive test results from one day ago. According to ISDH data published on Monday, November 16, Franklin County had 16 positive test results for a total of 547. Fayette County had an additional 19 positive test results, making its total 1,235. And Union …

Indiana surpasses quarter of a million mark in COVID-19 positive test results

By John Estridge from ISDH data Indiana went over the quarter of a million mark for positive COVID-19 tests with the release of Sunday, November 15, numbers by the Indiana State Health Department. There were 6,844 positive test results reported in the state on Sunday, bringing the state’s total since March 6 to 251,597. Twenty-two …

Continued sobering COVID-19 numbers for state and Whitewater Valley

By John Estridge from ISDH data The good news about the numbers ISDH released about the COVID-19 situation in the Whitewater Valley and the state is there were no more COVID-19-related deaths in the Whitewater Valley. Other than that, the numbers are sobering to say the least. For the state, it was a new record …

Indiana records 50 COVID-19-related deaths in numbers released on Friday, November 13, 2020

By John Estridge from ISDH data When looking at today’s numbers remember it is Friday the 13th in the year 2020. Indiana again has more than 5,000 positive test results, with Friday, November 13’s number at 5,708 for a grand total of 236,565 since mid March. Fifty people in Indiana died with what is believed …

Union County records its first COVID-19-related death and it is designated a red county as state sets new one-day record

By John Estridge from ISDH data On Wednesday, November 11, Union County recorded its first COVID-19-related death, was designated as a red county and Indiana set a new one-day record in positive COVID-19 tests. According to the ISDH COVID-19 Dashboard, a county becomes designated as a red county if the weekly cases per 100,000 residents …

Fayette County had an additional COVID-19-related death reported Monday, November 9

By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County had another COVID-19-related death, making its total 27. However, the numbers of cases are not increasing in the three counties within the Whitewater Valley as quickly as they have in the past few weeks. For Fayette County, it had a dozen new positive test results. That is …

Indiana has 4,689 positive test results recorded in its Sunday, November 8 report

By John Estridge from ISDH data Indiana had less positive COVID-19 test results on Sunday, November 8, than it had one day earlier, but the numbers are still large with 4,689 being reported. That makes the state’s total 210,374. Saturday, the total was 5,007, a new record. Fayette County fell just short of its usual …

State sets another bad record; Franklin County has 16 positive test results

By John Estridge from ISDH data Franklin County went into double digits on positive test results, and Indiana set a one-day record for the third-straight day with 5,007 positive test results, the first time the state went more than 5,000 since record keeping began on March 17. Franklin County had 16 positive test results for …