

Repeatedly, Governor Eric Holcomb and Mayor Hogsett have said they are relying on data and science to determine the most responsible path to slow walking the state and local economies back to life after the coronavirus shutdown, and alongside the governor at his virtual briefings form the Statehouse, State Health Director Dr. But the folks involved are all interested and engaged in resolving this – they recognize the importance of this data.” We do not know which statistic is correct – the one on the ISDH website, or the one on the Regenstrief dashboard. Gibson, in an email response, reported, “Since your first message, we have been talking with people at Regenstrief and the state to identify and resolve this discrepancy. If there are discrepancies or issues that need to be improved, we are working on it.”Įarlier this week, after repeated FOX59 News inquiries regarding the various data disconnects, Dr. “Everyone involved in this is doing the best work possible.

Shaun Grannis of the Regenstrief Institute. “You identified an issue that appeared to have corrected itself, which is an example, I think, of the system working to address the issues,” said Dr. Caine’s representation of Marion County’s positivity rate in early April was high by both contemporary and corrected reports. “If you can see way back on April 8 th that we had almost 45% of our testing were positive of all the tests we were doing each day, and then as you can see on May 6 th that we had roughly dropped to almost just a little bit above 30%, so we’re seeing the number of positive tests in our communities go down and this probably one of the most critical benchmarks we look at.”ĭr. “We want to look at how high, when we were testing people, were people positive for all the tests that we were doing?” she said on May 13 th. Caine touted Marion County’s progress in battling back COVID-19, and opening the way for a gradual relaxing of social distancing guidelines, by citing declining virus positivity rates in Indianapolis. The disconnect and lag time in reporting statistics means there is no way to accurately determine the virus’ prevalence in a community for several days or even weeks leaving officials to base today’s decisions on ballpark estimates while relying on other treatment data to fill in the blanks.ĭr. Virginia Caine’s virtual appearance last week with Mayor Joe Hogsett when it was announced that restaurants would be allowed to reopen this weekend for outdoor dining as Indianapolis continues its slow emergence from the coronavirus economic and social hibernation. These data discrepancies came to light during Marion County Public Health Director Dr. INDIANAPOLIS - A FOX59 News review of various data utilized by state and local leaders to determine Indiana’s progress in the fight against the coronavirus and the recovery of its economy reveals a disconnect between the raw numbers, the corrected statistics and the tracking dashboards the experts rely on to make their decisions.

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. These cases are not included in the new counts.This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. The latest ISDH dashboard data indicates the state’s 7-day all-test positivity rate of 5.1%, with a cumulative rate of 8.7% positive.Ī historical load of negative & positive labs resulted in the addition of 9,041 historical tests administered, 2,478 tested individuals and 372 historical cases to Saturday’s counts. ISDH also reported 798 more positive coronavirus cases and announced 5 additional confirmed COVID-19 deaths Saturday. ISDH said the fully vaccinated number includes individuals who have received a second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines and those who received the single Johnson & Johnson vaccine. To date, 2,495,691 first doses of the two-dose vaccine have been administered and 2,282,103 individuals are fully vaccinated. INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) reported 25,139 additional Hoosiers are now fully vaccinated as of Saturday. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
