Seven more people were reported dead from COVID-19 in northwest Indiana over the past week, according to statistics provided Saturday by the Indiana State Department of Health.
There no longer is sufficient need to continue operating Indiana s OptumServe COVID-19 testing sites, since tests now are available at pharmacies, health care providers and local health departments.
âIâll see you in heaven.â
It was the last thing Al Braccolino, 90, of Crown Point, told one of his daughters as paramedics loaded him into an ambulance Nov. 16. COVID-19 forced him into the final fight of his life.
Ten days later, the chair Al usually occupied at the Thanksgiving table would sit empty. The husband to his wife of 70 years, father of three and grandfather of six died on the holiday.
Alâs daughter, Sandra Noe, was herself suffering from COVID-19, which she contracted while caring for her sick parents, when the virus forced Alâs hospitalization.
Noe, 66, is no stranger to helping elderly shut-ins weather isolation.