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A budget establishing 23 new positions for the Lake County Health Department was approved Tuesday by the county council — a necessary first step before it can tap $4.87 million in new state dollars allocated to improve public health. The funds come from the Health First Indiana initiative, which was created in 2023 by the Indiana legislature through Senate Enrolled Act 4 to improve the overall .
“We truly feel and know at the State Department of Health that the community is best served at the local level," said Dr. Lindsay Weaver, state health commissioner.
Three Democratic Lake County Councilmen are accused of ensuring that they would avoid a GOP opponent in the general election by throwing their support for the First District State Senate seat behind fellow councilman and Lake County GOP chair Dan Dernulc instead of incumbent Democratic State Sen. Michael Griffin.
A record 3,467 individuals were hospitalized Monday because of COVID-19, topping the prior peak tally of 3,460 COVID-19 hospital patients on Nov. 30, 2020.