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.
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.
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.