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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.

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.

All of Indiana’s 92 counties are in the most severe “red” category on the state’s COVID-19 tracking map for the second week in a row.

The Indiana House votes to effectively ban COVID-19 vaccine mandates, sending it to the Senate. Indiana hits one year since it fully vaccinated its first resident. And Indiana surpassed 1.5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, with some early signs of slowing.

As the omicron surge continues, health officials in some states have given up trying to trace close contacts in all cases. That shift, combined with recent changes in isolation guidelines, is leaving many confused and unsure what to do.

Indiana has set several new records for daily cases since the COVID-19 variant omicron hit the state.

School districts across Indiana are reporting the highest number of staff and student COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, driven by the highly contagious omicron variant.

This week, Elkhart, Pulaski, Fulton and Kosciusko counties re-entered the “red” category — indicating unchecked community spread of COVID-19 — on the state’s coronavirus tracking map.

Berrien County is seeing record numbers of COVID-19 cases — with an average of 240 new cases per day and 1,624 in the past week.

With updated data from the weekend, the Indiana Department of Health brought its confirmed COVID-19 deaths total to 19,084. For context, that’s larger…