(8-17-19) In a tweet yesterday Adams County Health Officer Dr. Michael Ainsworth tweeted that ‘the county is ‘the hot spot of Covid-19 in the state of Indiana‘.
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This past week the North Adams School District decided not to open the classrooms as scheduled and decided to go to remote learning, in the process the district also stopped all athletic and extra-curricular activities after an order came from the local Health Department.
The other school districts (Adams Central and South Adams) have not made announcements that would stop school or athletics from proceeding.
Decatur seems to be the spot of concern in the county, last week the health department sent out details of an outbreak situation –
Adams County
How do the Adams Country numbers compare with Mercer County just down the road. Mercer County is presently the #1 county in Ohio for positive COVID 19 cases (per 100,000 capita) and is listed at a Level 3 alert.
Yesterday’s Indiana stats –
Indiana Department of Health updated numbers:
- Total positive cases: 80,415
- Total deaths: 2,924
- Tests reported to ISDH: 906,851
Ohio Department of Health updated numbers:
- 108,287 confirmed cases
- 3,826 deaths
- 12,236 hospitalizations
- 86,926 recovered
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Mercer County Outlook 