Coronavirus: Indiana Opens Vaccines To 12+, Legislature Overrides Local Health Orders Veto
Coronavirus: Indiana Opens Vaccines To 12+, Legislature Overrides Local Health Orders Veto
The Indiana Department of Health reported 60 additional confirmed deaths over the last week. That brings the state’s total to 13,063 confirmed deaths. The state also reported more than 5,700 new cases in the last week.
Indiana has administered 2,508,774 initial vaccine doses, with 2,299,256 Hoosiers fully vaccinated.
Here are your statewide COVID-19 headlines from last week.
The FDA passed emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine for that age group early last week.
Indiana is sending doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to counties without it, following federal approval of that vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds.
They wouldn t have survived, Rani says, without help from the nine doctors in their family.
“This is a war,” Rani said. “Nothing less than a war.
That s why Indian American doctors like her can provide a lifeline, she says, as hospitals and health care workers struggle to keep up with the barrage of new cases.
“It’s a very, very concerted effort that s going on from our medical faculty here,” said Dr. Anita Gupta, who does research at the IU School of Medicine and serves as communications chair at the Hindu Temple of Central Indiana. She too has been helping guide sick family members back home in a “collective effort,” alongside her husband, who s a doctor, and her sister in Chicago, who s a pharmacist.
Fans are joyful that 135,000 people can once again attend the Indianapolis 500. But much of the traditional entertainment around the race hasn t returned to its pre-pandemic form.
Some events are postponed or made invite-only, some are canceled altogether and others have been recalibrated to meet race fans where they live. Here s a look at what s going on with the Indy 500 Festival Parade, Carb Day and Snake Pit concerts, Off the Grid and Rev.
500 Festival Parade
The reverse parade is exactly what it sounds like. Instead of the traditional gathering downtown for the AES 500 Festival Parade, all 33 starting drivers will cruise through Indianapolis neighborhoods May 29.
Dr. Susan Moore did not set out to be a game changer. All she wanted was to be treated for a severe case of COVID-19 with the same dignity she gave her own patients.
But in a searing video that went viral last December, she charged Indiana University Health providers with allowing their racial bias to taint the treatment she received.
Six months after her eventual death from COVID-19, IU Health on Wednesday released the findings of an external investigation into a case that thrust the hospital into an unwelcome spotlight. The report concluded that while her medical care did not contribute to her untimely death, Moore suffered from a lack of cultural competence on the part of those treating her at IU Health North in Carmel.