The COVID-19 pandemic is one of many diseases that have threatened world-wide health over the years, but it’s the first since polio in the 1950s that has struck as much fear in the general public. Both the coronavirus and polio have occurred in my lifetime and the two have had an ironic ...
Don Hall's Guest House and Conference Center is no more. The decision to close the facility at 1313 W Washington Center Road, the former Imperious House Hotel acquired by the local Hall's restaurant chain in 1981, came during a period "unlike anything we have ever experienced," Tim Hall stated ...
Another three Allen County residents tested positive for COVID-19 Saturday, bringing the total to 26 cases. Updates to positive cases and deaths in Allen County are found at the top of the Department’s COVID-19 webpage at www.allencountyhealth.com/covid-19 and will be time-stamped to keep ...
INDIANAPOLIS —The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) today announced that 290 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 1,232 the total number of Indiana ...
Three days before Gov. Eric Holcomb's March 23 order requiring Hoosiers not engaged in essential travel or services to stay home, my boss handed me a letter that was amazingly clairvoyant. "To whom it may concern," it began. "Persons engaged in the dissemination of news . . . are exempt from ...
Manchester University has donated 2,000 masks, 1,600 gloves and 50 gowns to Parkview Health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “With most campus activities suspended because of COVID-19, it just makes sense to donate these much-needed supplies,” President Dave McFadden said in a ...
Ventec Life Systems has announced that General Motors will build VOCSN critical care ventilators at GM’s Kokomo facility with FDA-cleared ventilators scheduled to ship as soon as next month. This effort is in addition to Ventec taking aggressive steps to ramp up production at its plant in ...
In response to the shortage of medical supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Fort Wayne-based Vera Bradley has converted its sewing operations in its distribution facility and is leveraging its supplier relationships to get the distribution of much-needed masks, scrubs, and healthcare items up ...
The University of Saint Francis School of Health Sciences has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to local healthcare providers to help with needs caused by the spread of COVID-19. USF has donated more than 1,000 masks and face shields and 500 isolation gowns to Parkview Health and ...
It's been eight years since structural problems forced the closure of the Scott's Food store at North Anthony Boulevard and Crescent Avenue, four years since the now-defunct Marsh grocery chain expressed interest in the property and two years since the building was razed. The 3.5-acre site's ...
INDIANAPOLIS —The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) today announced that 338 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 981 the total number of Indiana ...
Another three Allen County residents tested positive for COVID-19 Friday, bringing the total to 22. Updates to positive cases and deaths in Allen County are found at the top of the Department’s COVID-19 webpage at www.allencountyhealth.com/covid-19 and will be time-stamped to keep the public ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Gov. Eric Holcomb today announced offenders at the Miami Correctional Facility are producing face masks, personal protection gowns, face shields and hand sanitizer to be used in the fight against COVID-19. “I’m pleased to have the Department of Correction joining the ranks ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When Mario Andretti got the text asking if he would be willing to drive the two-seater at Indianapolis this August, he responded immediately. Absolutely, he wrote while putting his vacation plans on hold. Andretti hopes it is the last time he is forced to reschedule ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana health officials declined Wednesday to provide details on hospital capacity around the state as its number of confirmed coronavirus-related illnesses continued to grow quickly and two more deaths were reported. The new deaths in Hancock and Howard counties were the ...
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — A Catholic priest in western Indiana has stopped hearing drive-through confessions at the request of the Indianapolis Archdiocese amid the coronavirus pandemic, he said. The Rev. Dan Bedel, who serves both St. Patrick and St. Margaret Mary Catholic churches in Terre ...
After two Allen County residents tested positive for COVID-19 Wednesday, another nine tested positive Thursday, bringing the total to 19. Updates to positive cases and deaths in Allen County are found at the top of the Department’s COVID-19 webpage at www.allencountyhealth.com/covid-19 and ...
Last Sunday's bulletin at Zion Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne included an admonition to practice "social distancing" in the pews, information about how to deal with COVID-19 both physically and spiritually, a "prayer for our nation, under duress" and a promise that "We are not shutting down ...
Gov. Eric Holcomb on Thursday signed a new executive order in a continuing effort to slow the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The order includes: • The Department of Workforce Development (DWD) has suspended the one-week waiting period that is required before paying unemployment ...
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