COVID-19 UPDATE: Tuesday, November 2, 2021

COVID-19 continues to be a “fluid situation” as the data continues to fluctuate.

At noon Monday, November 1, the Indiana Department of Health’s COVID-19 Dashboard (www.coronavirus.in.gov) showed Clay County remains in the ORANGE Weekly 2-Metric Score (2.5), Advisory Level, and the 7-Day All Tests Positivity Rate.

Still, a score of “3” in the Weekly Cases Per 100,000 Residents (Showing the current positive spread of the virus) shows Clay County is beginning to trend upward again.

According to the ISDH COVID-19 Dashboard, a total of 10,632 (40.541468064824%) of the estimated 26,225 Clay County residents are fully vaccinated, with nine residents recently becoming fully vaccinated.

The ISDH reports that 3,365,028 (49.485705882353%) of the estimated 6.8 million Hoosiers are fully vaccinated, with 3,483 new residents fully vaccinated as of October 29, 2021.

According to information from the Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention and other health officials, “herd immunity” would potentially be established when 60-70% of the population is vaccinated.

According to the World Health Organization’s data on November 1, 2021, COVID-19 has impacted citizens around the world:

Confirmed COVID-19 cases - 246,357,468

Confirmed COVID-19 deaths - 4,995,412

COVID-19 Vaccine doses administered - 6,697,607,393