If you want to know just where Fishers stands with the COVID-19 outbreak, check out the latest video from Monica Heltz of the city’s Health Department. During five days in the past week and a half, the city has registered 100 positive COVID tests on each of those five days.
Heltz
The Fishers Health Department is forecasting positive COVID cases tripling locally before Christmas. “That would mean possibly 2,500 to 6,500 new cases over the next month, which is pretty serious,” Heltz said.
Local hospitals are seeing a decrease in the number of Intensive Care Unit beds available, and more of those beds are taken by patients testing positive for COVID.
Bottom line: Local Fishers COVID transmission continues to see a rapid increase, according to Heltz.
The demand for testing at the Fishers testing site has been on the rise. As of Monday, Nov. 23, it takes two to four days to get an appointment and one to five days to receive the results.
The state and county health departments have issued rules, but in Fishers, the public health order is generally more restrictive compared to the state and county.
All this leads the Fishers Health Department to encourage local residents to be careful during the Thanksgiving holiday.
With COVID cases consistently on the rise in Hamilton County, the highest on 11/26/20, why is the Hamilton Health Department waiting for the county to go Red before imposing significantly tighter restrictions? The hospitals are filling up faster then patients are recovering. The health care professionals are pleading for help and assistance but state and county leadership are dragging their feet. Providing food for the frontline workers is a wonderful gesture but what they want is real help in slowing the spread so they manage the influx of patients. Please help them!
Nothing should close down, not schools, not business. There should be NO mask mandates. Less than 1% of those who get the virus will die….99% LIVE! Look at the science. The hospitals should of been prepared for such a time like this, shame on them for not. Peoples jobs, businesses and schools should not be lost because of this virus. Suicide, mental illness, drug addiction, homelessness has been on an unprecedented rise because of this unwarranted fear of this virus. Vote Libertarian friends, the government has to much control of your livelihood.