About an hour after the Indiana Department of Health announced yet another record high of new coronavirus cases Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the Midwest numbers suggest the region is going in the wrong direction.
In a press call discussing the situation in six states, including Indiana, Dr. Henry Walke, incident manager for the CDC’s COVID-19 response team, said his colleagues were working with local and state health officials to mitigate spread of the virus.
The CDC region that includes Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota has seen a 27 percent increase in cases and 37 percent increase in deaths in the past seven days, Walke said.
Indiana has seen a 68 percent increase in deaths, a 13.7 percent increase in cases and an 8.7 percent increase in positivity in that time period, CDC officials said.
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