COVID-19

Health care workers in Indiana saw a noticeable jump in workplace injuries and illness in 2020, according to OSHA data. Much of that was likely due to the exposure doctors and nurses had to COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic.

Indiana surpasses 22,000 dead, as the rate of new deaths slows. Gov. Eric Holcomb signs the General Assembly’s less restrictive COVID-19 vaccine mandate bill. And he ended the state’s public health emergency, which had been in place since March 2020.

Some small towns in the Midwest are growing due to an influx of immigrants, which includes some who speak rare languages. Hospitals and community leaders have had to adapt to make COVID vaccines accessible to those communities.

The debate in the General Assembly over how and whether to restrict businesses from enforcing COVID-19 vaccine mandates is over - House Republicans sent a far less restrictive version of their bill to the governor Thursday, who then signed it into law.

There is a lot of evidence to suggest that omicron cases are less likely to result in hospitalizations. But while the individual risk of severe...