Dec 28, 2020 / 12:21 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) A federal judge has denied
a request from 15 Indianapolis bar owners to stop coronavirus restrictions put in place by Mayor Joe Hogsett and the county’s public health department.
In September, the group of bar, restaurant and nightclub owners asked a judge to rule the local health orders unconstitutional. They said their businesses are dealing with revenue loss and layoffs, and may have to close.
Indianapolis has had coronavirus restrictions of various measure in place since March.
Marion County Public Health Department’s latest order requires bars and nightclubs to have 25% capacity indoors and restaurants to have 50% capacity with social distancing. All of those plus food retailers must be closed from midnight to 5 a.m.
Minority Health Coalition Addresses COVID-19 Vaccine
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Indiana health officials joined a webinar Tuesday to discuss COVID-19 vaccination advances and efforts to equitably vaccinate Hoosiers.
The Indiana Minority Health Coalition hosted the event to highlight the importance of the vaccine and to dispel myths about it. U.S. Surgeon General and former Indiana Health Commissioner Jerome Adams said COVID-19 laid bare health inequities.
“The diseases that impact all of us,” Adams said, “almost always disproportionately impact people of color.”
Two COVID-19 vaccinations have been approved this month. Marion County Public Health Department Director Virginia Caine said the vaccines use new messenger RNA science that teaches cells to make a protein.
US Surgeon General Hopes to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Trust Among Indiana’s Minority Population
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Indiana and national health officials are coming together Tuesday morning to host a virtual conference in an effort to boost COVID-19 vaccine trust among minorities.
The statewide effort is hosted by the Indiana Minority Health Coalition with the goal of breaking down vaccine facts and myths.
Marion County Public Health Department Director Dr. Virginia Caine will join Indiana’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Lindsay Weaver to discuss the state’s plan for vaccine rollout.
The coalition announced on Monday that U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams will join the discussion which will focus on the historical trauma and distrust with vaccinations among minority populations.
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Indiana prisons, jails to receive coronavirus vaccine in Phase 2 of plan Elizabeth DePompei, Indianapolis Star
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Before the coronavirus vaccine will be made available to the general public, there s another group expected to get access: persons working or living in jails and prisons.
In the state s vaccination plan draft, prison and jails, along with other congregate settings such as homeless shelters, would receive doses in Phase 2.
In Phase 3, the vaccination can be distributed to the general public.
The state started administering the vaccine on Monday when six health care workers in Fort Wayne received their first doses. Fifty hospitals and clinics expected to receive 55,575 Pfizer vaccine doses by Friday. An estimated 400,000 health care workers statewide are eligible for the first round of vaccines.