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Experts are expressing concern about the more transmissible subvariant.
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Indiana has surpassed 2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases. Cases have slowly – but steadily – risen since October.
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Hoosiers can now find COVID-19 vaccine sites with the new booster on the state’s online map, found at OurShot.IN.gov.
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Things are different from when the first wave of the original vaccine and its boosters came through. There won’t be an all-out push from public health agencies to get people vaccinated through mass vaccination clinics. And shots are still free for now, but that could change early next year.
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Michigan health officials are projecting COVID-19 cases will roughly double in late April through early May. That's due to the increased transmissibility of the omicron BA.2 subvariant. But that would still be a relatively modest uptick, and it's not expected to mean a lot more deaths or hospitalizations.
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U.S. hospitalization rates more than doubled during the latest omicron wave compared to the prior delta wave, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Black adults were more likely to end up hospitalized than White adults, regardless of their vaccination status.
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Some Indiana school districts no longer need to do contact tracing. The state’s COVID-19 cases have continued to slow as it reaches 1.6 million confirmed cases. And the state surpassed 20,000 dead, reporting its most recent 1,000 in just two weeks.
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Indiana surpassed 1.6 million confirmed COVID-19 cases Friday, just over a week from its most recent milestone .
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Health officials have given up on broad contact tracing, or even getting people to report positive at-home tests. Now, it's about 3 things: keeping deaths low, hospitals from getting even more overwhelmed, and schools and businesses functioning.
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There is so much data related to COVID-19 available that it can be hard to make sense of it all.To get some clarity on the issue, Side Effects Public Media and Indiana Public Broadcasting spoke with experts about how to find COVID-19 data and how to use it to guide decision-making.