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May 22, 2020 15 tweets 4 min read Read on X
IDHS: only four businesses required "additional education" about capacity limits under coronavirus order. Most complaints were unfounded, and no cases have progressed to fines or enforcement actions.
20,000 bundles of #PPE from state marketplace shipped to Indiana businesses so far; 70,000 more planned over next month.
30,000 new #unemployment claims, continuing to taper off from March explosion.
DWD Commissioner Fred Payne on record 16.9% #unemployment rate: leisure and hospitality industries alone lost 193,000 jobs in April, more than 1/3 total state job loss.
Payne: wait times for callers seeking #unemploymentbenefits have sharply declined. Most claims are paid within 14-15 days (exceptions require further investigation).
Holcomb slips in a plug for Crawfordsville HS senior @abbybannon_, playing a clip of the song she wrote for this year's graduating seniors. "America's going to hear a lot from Abby if she wants them to hear from her."
OMB director Cris Johnston on #spendingcuts announced this morning: "everything is on the table" for future cuts, including K-12 and higher ed. That's NOT part of today's order to state agencies to look for 15% cuts. Johnston says state will be watching what federal aid may come.
Holcomb, on Trump declaration today that he'll order #churches to open, notes Indiana's already are, as of May 8. (Gary and Indianapolis mayors have local orders which do place churches under mass gathering limits.)
Holcomb order notes virtual services are still preferable.
Southern IN reporter compliments Holcomb on his Madison Regatta mug. Which I choose to believe is an India Cooper tribute.
Box says the spike in cases in Elkhart County appears to be purely a result of more tests there; there are multiple testing sites in the county. The county has reported 128 cases the last 2 days, but the 9% rate of positive tests in the county is below the statewide average.
Holcomb says the coming decision (July) on whether to reopen schools in the fall or continue virtual classes will have no connection to whether school funding is cut to keep up with revenue lost to the pandemic recession.
Holcomb says the goal is to find spending cuts which don't interfere with delivering services; he said earlier that no cuts will be made which impede #pandemic response. Johnston says the state will be assessing what expenses are lower priorities.
This will be longest break between briefings since #pandemic began, since Monday is #MemorialDay. Holcomb says they considered adding a Tuesday briefing, but notes that virus data reporting goes way down after a holiday. So next briefing is Wednesday.
More context on Elkhart County: 61 new cases there, second only to the day before. But that's from 444 tests, so 13.7% positive. Overall 12.9% rate (not 9%; typo earlier) reflects higher rate of negative tests in past weeks. Both figures are below the state average of 14.6%.

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Jul 25, 2022
Halls outside the Senate chamber where #abortion hearing is taking place are jammed with protesters. Chanting is audible in chamber.
Sen. Sue Glick (R-LaGrange) predicts amendments and discussion of possible criminal penalties. Abortion opponents have objected to the lack of enforcement provisions.
Testimony has begun. First witness is a woman raped twice as a teenager, urging legislators not to minimize the trauma accompanying sexual assault.
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Nearly all of the 40 #INLegis Democrats are meeting with @VP at the Indiana State Library to discuss the #abortion bill. First Senate hearing is this afternoon.
.@VP Harris: #INLegis “on the front lines of one of the most critical issues in America today.”
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2,839 new Indiana #coronavirus cases, with 9.4% of today's batch of tests positive. The 7-day positivity rate, which runs a week behind, continues a two-week plunge to 18.3%, still in @StateHealthIN's high-risk zone but lowest since Jan 3. Cases are down 60% from last week.
108 newly reported Indiana #coronavirus deaths, half from the last week but with five dating back to 2021. The death toll rises to 21,299. IDH has also identified one more presumptive #COVID19 death, for a total toll of 22,137.
Indiana #COVID19 hospitalizations drop below 2,000 for the first time since Nov 27 (and lowest since two days before that), at 1,932, down 104 from yesterday. Of those, 392 are in intensive care, 25 fewer than yesterday and fewest since Nov 21. The state has 300 open ICU beds.
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All 92 counties are now rated red (high risk) on @StateHealthIN's weekly risk score.
16,502 new Indiana #coronavirus cases, 2nd-highest total ever, but 3rd week-over-week drop in 5 days.

24.3% of today's batch of tests were positive. The 7-day positivity rate, which runs a week behind, holds steady at a record 30%. It's the 1st time since Dec 26 it hasn't risen.
118 newly reported Indiana #COVID19 deaths, all but 13 in the last five days (but with one late report from 2021), push the death toll to 19,761. IDH has retracted three presumptive #COVID deaths, for a total toll of 20,500.
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Debate begins in Indiana House on final vote on bill limiting employer #vaccinemandates.
House Majority Leader Matt Lehman: "This bill is not about the vaccine itself; it's about the people affected" by mandates. #INLegis
Lehman points to nurses who testified they fear getting fired for being unvaxed, after working for 9 months of pandemic before #vaccine became available.

Last week's #SCOTUS ruling means those nurses aren't affected by this bill; they're still required to get vaxed or get fired.
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710 Hoosiers are in ICU with #COVID19, one fewer than yesterday and the fourth straight drop, but a jump in non-#COVID patients drops the number of open Indiana ICU beds to 218. Overall, 3,460 Hoosiers are hospitalized with COVID, 97 more than yesterday after a three-day decline.
12,126 new Indiana #coronavirus cases, with 25% of today's batch of tests coming back positive. The 7-day positivity rate, which runs a week behind, sets a 15th straight record at 30%.
77 newly reported Indiana #coronavirus deaths, all in the last week; this is the first @StateHealthIN report with no belated reports from 2021 (though there could be more later). The 2-year death toll rises to 19,643; counting presumptive #COVID19 deaths, the total is 20,385.
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