Indiana crossed an important threshold in its fight against COVID-19 Wednesday with exactly half the state's residents age 12 and up considered fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.
While the pandemic now largely is over for those 2.85 million Hoosiers, there are plenty of signs it's flaring up again among the 2.85 million Hoosiers unwilling or unable to be vaccinated â along with posing a continuing threat to the approximately 1 million Indiana children under age 12 not eligible for the vaccine.
For example, 557 Hoosiers were hospitalized due to COVID-19 Tuesday. That's a 37% increase compared to the 408 COVID-19 hospitalizations just three weeks earlier, according to the Indiana Department of Health.