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As Indiana is beginning to see its cases of COVID-19 reach a believed peak, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb has asked local health departments to release the restriction of closing the lobby and the inside pick-up and ordering areas within food establishments. In order to still maintain the low COVID-19 numbers seen in Wayne County, establishments […]

Wayne County Health Department has depleted its inventory of N95 and surgical masks, face shields, gowns and goggles for local nursing homes and seeks more donations of those items for those local facilities. The county health department has been working with local nursing homes since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and has been issuing […]

Local health officials say they are pleased Gov. Eric Holcomb extended Indiana’s stay-at-home order until May 1 because of an increase in local COVID-19 cases. “We are glad he is extending the stay at home orders until May 1,” said Dr. David Jetmore, who is Wayne County’s health officer. “In Wayne County we have seen […]

As of 2:30 p.m. April 21, Reid has 50 lab-confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in its eight-county service area. It has 52 patients in containment area and now has submitted 506 tests for processing. As of April 21, Indiana has 12,097 cases. There have been 630 deaths in the state, according to Indiana State Department of […]

Reid Health is working with Mayo Clinic in a program that will treat COVID-19 patients with plasma from recovered patients and seeks donations of that plasma from local residents. “Treatment with convalescent plasma is an old strategy that has been used for more than 100 years to convey passive immunity from someone who has recovered […]

As of April 20, Reid Health has had 50 lab-confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 and has 51 patients in containment areas of the hospital. Reid has submitted 472 tests, but studies have shown a relatively high “false negative” outcome. As of April 20, Indiana has 11,686 cases. There have been 569 deaths in the state, […]

On Friday morning, Wayne County has increased its number of COVID-19 cases and has now had its second death. Wayne County Health Department has received a total of 23 presumptive positive cases among Wayne County residents. Wayne County Health Officer Dr. David Jetmore said the resident, who was in her late 80s, died outside a […]

Reid Health is alerting people in the area who have been making handmade masks that the health system is still in need of them because so many are being provided to patients and family members. “The outpouring of donations has been tremendous,” said Randy Kirk, Reid Health Vice President/Foundation President. The foundation is receiving donated […]

As of 5 p.m. April 15, Reid Health has received 39 lab-confirmed positive COVID-19 tests, and continues to have 48 patients in containment areas at the hospital. A total of 364 COVID tests have been submitted for processing. Because of the lag time in state-reported data, Reid Health is sharing with the community its own […]