State reports fourth, but unconfirmed, coronavirus death in Vanderburgh County
Abbey Doyle
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The state reports a fourth death in Vanderburgh County due to COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
But the daily online dashboard report of the Indiana State Department of Health has attributed coronavirus-related deaths to the wrong counties before, and the information had not been confirmed by the Vanderburgh County Health Department as of 2 p.m. Saturday.
Joe Gries, administrator for the local health department, said he has no information about the third or fourth death and has been unable to confirm them.
The state health department daily updates its online dashboard of COVID-19 data, including deaths, as it tracks the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. Vanderburgh and Warrick counties also have their own dashboards with their own COVID-19 data.
Here is the latest information available on these dashboards.
INDIANA
According to the ISDH dashboard:
New positive cases: 442
Total positive cases: 36,997
New deaths: 32
Total deaths: 2,110
Probable deaths: 182
Those are cases when a physician lists COVID-19 as a contributing cause of death but there are no positive test results recorded.
New tests: 5,994
Total tested: 297,530
Percent positive: 12.4
Vanderburgh
New positive cases: 8
Positive cases: 299
Deaths: 4
Total tested: 7,224
Warrick
New positive cases: None
Positive cases: 167
Deaths: 29
Total tested: 1,590
Posey
Positive cases: 16
Deaths: 0
Total tested: 480
Gibson
Postive cases: 20
Deaths: 2
Total tested: 801
VANDERBURGH
The latest update from the Vanderburgh County Department of Health dashboard. Numbers may differ from ISDH totals.
Confirmed positive tests: 290
Recovered: 269
Ongoing (active cases): 26
Close contacts: 607
The CDC defines a "close contact" as someone known to have been within six feet of a coronavirus sufferer for at least 10 minutes.
Close contacts cleared: 468
Close contacts monitoring: 139
Deaths: 2
WARRICK
The latest update from the Warrick County Department of Health dashboard. Numbers may differ from ISDH totals.
Total active: 11
Off quarantine protocol: 128
Deaths: 29 (26 long-term care)
Total positive cases: 168