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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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County had two more deaths officials said were related to COVID-19. That brings Fayette County’s total to 21. Fayette County also had an additional 23 positive test results. That makes the sixth day out of the last seven where the number of positive test results was double digits. …
By John Estridge from ISDH data On Monday, October 26, Fayette County reported one new death related to COVID-19, making 19 people who have died in that county with attribution to the virus. Also, Fayette County recorded 30 new positive test results. It has had double-digit positive test results in five of the last six …
By John Estridge from ISDH data Numbers were down Sunday, October 25, but so were the number of tests. A friend living in Fayette County said the virus has reached at least one nursing home in Fayette County. That is not official, but with recent elevated Fayette County numbers, it is probably true. For Fayette …
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By John Estridge from ISDH data Fayette County and Indiana continue to have terrible COVID-19-related numbers. Fayette County had 42 positive test results reported for Saturday, October 24. And Indiana had its second-highest day ever in the same category with 2,765. Looking at Fayette County’s numbers, the 42 positive tests came from 186 tests given …
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By John Estridge from ISDH data Neither the state nor Fayette County had as bad of numbers as they respectively did on Thursday, October 22, but their Friday, October 23, numbers were pretty bad. In the state, there were an additional 2,519 positive test results that is down slightly from Thursday’s record 2,880. Also, the …
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