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Indiana health officials are dropping the state’s color-coded map that rated each county’s risk of COVID-19 spread in favor of relying on a different federal rating system.

Indiana’s largest hospital system plans to resume elective surgeries soon after postponing them for months as COVID-19 patients and other acutely ill patients crowded its hospitals around the state.

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday condemned recent comments made by the state’s attorney general, who alleged that Indiana’s COVID-19 data is inflated and “inaccurate.”

Federal officials are sending a 23-person U.S. Navy team to Indiana’s largest hospital to help relieve staffers exhausted and overwhelmed by a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations.

The Indiana governor’s office acknowledged Wednesday that the statewide COVID-19 public health emergency will likely extend into the new year after a failed attempt by legislators to quickly approve steps the governor sought to let the declaration expire.

Dr. Emily Landon, infectious disease specialist and chief hospital epidemiologist at University of Chicago Medicine answers questions on the new omicron COVID variant.

Indiana’s Republican-dominated Legislature will reconvene late this month to consider ending the statewide COVID-19 public health emergency order that has been in place since March 2020, legislative leaders said Saturday.

Four out of 10 Hoosier adults are still not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as Indiana’s sluggish vaccination rate coincides with recent increases in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, state health officials said.

An Indiana school district announced a new mask requirement after 55 positive COVID-19 cases among students and staff were recorded in the first nine days of the academic year, causing over 800 people to be quarantined due to close contact.

An Indiana school district recorded 50 new positive COVID-19 cases among students and staff last week, causing over 700 people to be quarantined due to close contact.

Indiana’s latest surge in COVID-19 infections has pushed hospitalizations and intensive care unit treatments for the illness to levels last seen in January.

Indiana’s governor gave his support Monday to the growing number of school districts across the state issuing mask mandates for students and staff as they try to head off more COVID-19 outbreaks.

Indiana’s top health officials made pleas Friday for people to get vaccinated and continue wearing masks as an especially contagious coronavirus variant spreads throughout the state, but they said they had no plans to reinstate statewide health mandates.

Health officials in Indiana on Tuesday reported 240 new cases of coronavirus and seven additional deaths, as well as more than 26,000 new vaccinations in the past 24 hours.

Health officials in Indiana on Monday reported 140 new cases of coronavirus and two additional deaths, as well as more than 14,000 new vaccinations in the past 24 hours.

Health officials in Indiana on Saturday reported 336 new cases of coronavirus and 30 additional deaths, as well as more than 17,000 new vaccinations in the past 24 hours.

Health officials in Indiana on Friday reported 314 new cases of coronavirus and four additional deaths, as well as more than 16,000 new vaccinations in the past 24 hours.

Health officials in Indiana on Thursday reported 374 new cases of coronavirus and two additional deaths, as well as more than 21,000 new vaccinations in the past 24 hours.

Unused Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses are at risk of becoming expired and going to waste.

Health officials in Indiana on Wednesday reported 308 new cases of coronavirus and 12 additional deaths, as well as more than 32,000 new vaccinations in the past 24 hours.