Mar 12, 2021 / 06:34 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) The Indiana State Health Department on Friday announced more than 2 million vaccination doses have been administered to Hoosiers, and nearly 800,000 Hoosiers were fully vaccinated.
Marion County Public Health Department is working to increase those doses by deploying mobile vaccination units to reach minority Hoosiers.
“We want to make sure we’re having an equitable distribution of the vaccines to everyone,” said MCPHD director Dr. Virginia Caine. “Especially anyone that’s meeting our highest risk populations for complications, hospitalizations, and death related to the COVID-19 infection.”
Which is why the department has plans to use mobile hot-spot vaccinations.
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Mar 8, 2021 / 07:17 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Leaders from organizations around Indiana are asking state lawmakers to change several bills dealing with guns and youth. These organizations said the legislation would increase the number of children prosecuted in the adult system.
Don “Don” Dyson knows what it’s like to face gun possession charges at a young age.
“When I started carrying a gun, it was for protection and driven by trauma. I was not old enough to have a permit. I had no intentions of harming a soul, and I never did,” Dyson explained in a virtual briefing Monday afternoon.
He was thrown in jail, which sent his life in a direction he didn’t want.