.@IndyMayorJoe: Indy will follow state's Stage 4.5 to allow outdoor activities like festivals, effective next Thursday. But youth camps will remain closed.
Hogsett: any event expecting more than 1,000 people (see: Colts, #Indy500) must submit plan for approval to health dept.
BREAKING: Indy will require masks in public, effective one week from today.,
Marion County is fourth in Indiana to require #masks.
Hogsett: "This isn't complicated. It's a piece of cloth. It's a piece of cloth that can save lives. If you disagree, you are dead wrong, in the fullest sense of that expression."
Hogsett says Indy required masks in the 1918 #flu pandemic, and had a death rate of .3%.
With 679 deaths, the Marion County death rate among confirmed #coronavirus cases so far is 6%.
Indy #MaskUp requirement: anyone 3 and up must wear mask, unless a medical condition precludes it, effective July 9. Masks must be worn indoors unless you're alone or eating. Outdoors, not required if you can effectively social-distance (e.g. jogging), but required otherwise.
Health director Virginia Caine: people under 40 were 38% of cases in first month of pandemic. In the last week, that age group is 58% of cases.
Caine: IN #coronavirus cases are up just 2% last 2 wks -- but Michigan & Ohio have nearly doubled in that time, and Illinois and Kentucky are up 21% and 33%. "We have to understand we're just a plane ride or car travel away. We have to be conscious of what's going on around us."
Hogsett: one-week delay in effective date for #MaskUp requirement is in part to make sure people have time to get a mask if they don't have one.
Interesting q toward end of the Hogsett #MaskUp news conference: does the mask requirement conflict with state law on #opencarry of long guns?
The open carry statute is 35-47-2-1. I'm prepared to be corrected by @guyrelford, but I don't see anything in the law relating to masks.
Indiana counties with highest numbers of #coronavirus cases per capita (* = those requiring masks):
Cass
Elkhart*
Marion*
LaGrange*
(Cass County's rate is 3x Elkhart, due to the May outbreak at Tyson Foods. The county has had just one day with more than 6 cases since May 11.)
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