INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — State officials are renewing their call for retired health care workers to help relieve staff in Indiana’s hospitals and long-term care facilities as the number of hospitalizations and new infections across the state continue to spike at record highs. Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kris Box says hospitals and healthcare workers in Indiana are swamped, “needing support now more than ever.” The state’s hospitals are currently seeing more coronavirus patients than at any other time in the pandemic. Staffing issues continue to be the greatest challenge, Box said, adding that there’s an ongoing need for additional reservists who would be “willing to serve.”
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana public health officials say 36 more people have died from COVID-19, for an overall death toll of 4,383 in the state. The Indiana Department of Health on Sunday announced 4,689 new confirmed cases. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 210,374 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Indiana. State officials say another 246 probable deaths have been reported based on diagnoses, but for whom no positive test is on record. More than 3.2 million tests have been conducted in Indiana. The number includes people who have had repeat tests.
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