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Brett W. Todd is the managing editor of Clinton County Today. Clinton County Today is a community-focused website to provide individuals of Clinton County Indiana and surrounding areas with information impacting their lives. Clinton County Today is a service of Progressive Partners of Indiana, LLC where Brett W. Todd is its managing member.

Update (9/5/20): 7 New Clinton County Residents Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Reported By The ISDH

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The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Saturday, September 5, 2020, Clinton County had 7 new positive tests, 570 residents have now tested positive for COVID-19. There are 11 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 7,432 unique tests have been administrated to residents of Clinton County as reported by the ISDH.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique tested individuals for Clinton County is 4.7% as of August 29, 2020. The State of Indiana as a whole is 7.7%.

Additionally, the ISDH announced that 1,044 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 98,961 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

A total of 3,127 Hoosiers have died to date. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.

To date, 1,129,078 unique tests have been administrated on Hoosiers and reported to ISDH, up from 1,117,427 on Friday.

The Regenstrief Institute released updated hospitalization data as of September 4, 2020, 11:59 p.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative.

Total Hospitalizations: 43
Emergency Visits: 102
ICU Admits: 9
Hospital Deaths: 5

Statewide Recovery: 75,680 (81%)
Statewide Deceased: 3,138 (3%)
Statewide Active: 14,911 (16%)

Free COVID-19 Test Center in Clinton County
Children age 3 and older can be tested as well as anyone who needs a test can get tested.

Location [New Location as of Monday, August 31, 2020]:
Clinton County Fairgrounds in the Edward Jones Building
1701 S Jackson St.
Frankfort, IN
8am – 6pm (Monday – Friday)

To schedule a test, use one of the following:
web: https://lhi.care/covidtesting
phone: (888) 634-1116

The COVID-19 testing clinic has tested an additional 4,000+ Clinton County residents since May 13th.

Update (9/4/20): 2 New Clinton County Residents Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Reported By The ISDH

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The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Friday, September 4, 2020, Clinton County had 2 new positive tests, 563 residents have now tested positive for COVID-19. There are 11 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 7,432 unique tests have been administrated to residents of Clinton County as reported by the ISDH.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique individuals for Clinton County is 4.4% as of August 28, 2020. The State of Indiana as a whole is 7.4%.

Additionally, the ISDH announced that 1,044 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 97,884 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

A total of 3,127 Hoosiers have died to date. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.

To date, 1,117,427 unique tests have been administrated on Hoosiers and reported to ISDH, up from 1,103,038 on Thursday.

The Regenstrief Institute released updated hospitalization data as of September 3, 2020, 11:59 p.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative.

Total Hospitalizations: 43
Emergency Visits: 102
ICU Admits: 9
Hospital Deaths: 5

Statewide Recovery: 75,222 (81%)
Statewide Deceased: 3,127 (3%)
Statewide Active: 14,637 (16%)

Free COVID-19 Test Center in Clinton County
Children age 3 and older can be tested as well as anyone who needs a test can get tested.

Location [New Location as of Monday, August 31, 2020]:
Clinton County Fairgrounds in the Edward Jones Building
1701 S Jackson St.
Frankfort, IN
8am – 6pm (Monday – Friday)

To schedule a test, use one of the following:
web: https://lhi.care/covidtesting
phone: (888) 634-1116

The COVID-19 testing clinic has tested an additional 4,000+ Clinton County residents since May 13th.

Frankfort, Clinton Prairie Enter Week 3 of High School Football

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Week 3 of High School football features a Saturday game for Clinton Prairie (0-2) as they host the 1A Traders Point Christian Knights (0-0) for a 10 a.m. kickoff. The Gophers look for the win after losing to county rival the Frankfort Hot Dogs 53-12 last week.

The Hot Dogs (1-1) travel to Lizton for a Sagamore Conference game against the 3A Bruins of Tri-West (1-1). The Bruins lost last week to 5A Plainfield 37-35.

Limited ticketing is available for both games due to current IHSAA fan participation rules this year due to COVID-19.

The Frankfort game can be viewed on YouTube via the Tri-West channel. There is no cost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHZli2b12M

The Clinton Prairie game will be televised on the ISC SportsNetwork. The cost is $5.99.

https://www.iscsportsnetwork.com/products/2020-fb-traders-point-at-clinton-prairie-9-5-20

The game for Clinton Central is canceled due to Clinton Central’s Jr/Sr High School going to remote learning due to its COVID-19 quarantine announcement.

Update (9/3/20): 11th Death of a Clinton County Resident Related to COVID-19 Reported By The ISDH

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The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Thursday, September 3, 2020, Clinton County had 1 new death related to COVID-19 and 6 new positive tests, 561 residents have now tested positive for COVID-19. There are 11 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 7,300 unique tests have been administrated to residents of Clinton County as reported by the ISDH.

The death is reported to have occurred Tuesday, September 1, 2020.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique individuals for Clinton County is 4.4% as of August 27, 2020. The State of Indiana as a whole is 7.7%.

Additionally, the ISDH announced that 1,110 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 96,854 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

A total of 3,110 Hoosiers have died to date. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.

To date, 1,103,038 unique tests have been administrated on Hoosiers and reported to ISDH, up from 1,092,596 on Wednesday.

The Regenstrief Institute released updated hospitalization data as of September 2, 2020, 11:59 p.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative.

Total Hospitalizations: 43
Emergency Visits: 102
ICU Admits: 9
Hospital Deaths: 5

Statewide Recovery: 74,288 (81%)
Statewide Deceased: 3,110 (3%)
Statewide Active: 14,726 (16%)

Free COVID-19 Test Center in Clinton County
Children age 3 and older can be tested as well as anyone who needs a test can get tested.

Location [New Location as of Monday, August 31, 2020]:
Clinton County Fairgrounds in the Edward Jones Building
1701 S Jackson St.
Frankfort, IN
8am – 6pm (Monday – Friday)

To schedule a test, use one of the following:
web: https://lhi.care/covidtesting
phone: (888) 634-1116

The COVID-19 testing clinic has tested an additional 4,000+ Clinton County residents since May 13th.

“Absolutely Incorrect,” COVID-19 Killed Only 9,000 or 6% of COVID-19 Death Total

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Dr. Kristina Box, Indiana State Health Commissioner, responded to a question during the Wednesday, September 2, 2020, Governor Eric Holcomb’s weekly press briefing, regarding posts made on social media, that have gone viral, that a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report stated only 6% of deaths of COVID-19 (9,000) can be attributed to COVID-19 and the remainder did not die of COVID-19.

The CDC report reads “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”

“Boy, has it been misinterpreted by social media,” said Dr. Box.

She continued, “the National Center for Health Statistics puts out a data report every single week for the CDC and on August the 26th, the one they put out, was basically surrounding what death certificates say about deaths from COVID-19. In there they mentioned that 6% of the death certificates had only COVID listed as a cause of death.

“So, automatically, some of the social media individuals decided – well the other 94% did not die from COVID-19 so that instead of having 180,000 deaths or over that in the United States, we had 9,000 deaths from COVID-19 – which is absolutely incorrect.”

Dr. Box spoke of how an underlying condition would be stated on a death certificate for cancer death, but those condition(s) would not overshadow the death being a result of cancer.

“It would be like saying that someone that had cancer came in and died of a complication. Maybe of their treatment that they were receiving or lung metastases or brain metastases, but they also had hypertension or diabetes on their diagnosis, on the death certificate – so they didn’t die of their cancer. That is absolutely not true.

“We know that physicians and healthcare professionals put down what they see as causes or contributors to an individual’s death. So someone who came in and died of COVID-19 might also have been at higher risk because they had underlying heart disease or lung disease or diabetes or underlying renal failure, but that does not mean that COVID-19 was not a contributing cause to their death.”

She explained the process the Indiana State Department Health (ISDH) follows in determining if the death was a result of COVID-19.

“And that is one of the reasons that in the state of Indiana, we’re very, very careful when we get a report of a COVID death. We number one confirm that there was an infection with COVID-19 by finding that lab report and attaching to it. We look at the death certificate and we see what the health care professionals have put down as the causes of death and at the same time we make sure that if there’s any questions about that, we review that with the health care professional.”

Dr. Box concluded her remarks by sharing how the ISDH handles deaths that are believed to be related to COVID-19, but does not have a positive test result.

“And, we have actually separated those deaths that don’t have a positive COVID test and called them probable deaths. Because we know that some of our healthcare professionals are confident that an individual’s death was related to COVID based on their clinical course and based on the imaging studies and other things that they had done in the hospital. But if we don’t have a positive test, we put that down as a probable COVID death.”

The ISDH daily COVID-19 report as of September 2, 2020, showed Indiana had 3,106 total deaths with an additional 219 probable deaths. In Clinton County, there was 1 additional death reported bringing the total to 10. The ISDH does not break out probable deaths by county.

Update (9/2/20): 10th Death of a Clinton County Resident Related to COVID-19 Reported By The ISDH

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The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Wednesday, September 2, 2020, Clinton County had 1 new death related to COVID-19 and 2 new positive tests, 555 residents have now tested positive for COVID-19. There are 10 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 7,215 unique tests have been administrated to residents of Clinton County as reported by the ISDH.

The death is reported to have taken place Sunday, August 30, 2020.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique individuals for Clinton County is 4.2% as of August 26, 2020. The State of Indiana as a whole is 7.2%.

Additionally, the ISDH announced that 871 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 95,750 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

A total of 3,106 Hoosiers have died to date. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.

To date, 1,092,596 unique tests have been administrated on Hoosiers and reported to ISDH, up from 1,083,765 on Tuesday.

The Regenstrief Institute released updated hospitalization data as of September 1, 2020, 11:59 p.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative.

Total Hospitalizations: 42
Emergency Visits: 102
ICU Admits: 8
Hospital Deaths: 5

Statewide Recovery: 73,390 (80%)
Statewide Deceased: 3,106 (3%)
Statewide Active: 14,905 (16%)

Free COVID-19 Test Center in Clinton County
Children age 3 and older can be tested as well as anyone who needs a test can get tested.

Location [New Location as of Monday, August 31, 2020]:
Clinton County Fairgrounds in the Edward Jones Building
1701 S Jackson St.
Frankfort, IN
8am – 6pm (Monday – Friday)

To schedule a test, use one of the following:
web: https://lhi.care/covidtesting
phone: (888) 634-1116

The COVID-19 testing clinic has tested an additional 4,000+ Clinton County residents since May 13th.

Kiwanis Club of Frankfort Celebrates 100 Years

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Today, Tuesday, September 1, 2020, Frankfort Mayor Judy Sheets issued a proclamation celebrating the Kiwanis Club of Frankfort 100-years of service.

The proclamation proclaims Thursday, September 3, 2020, as Kiwanis Club of Frankfort Day, 100-years to the day the club was chartered in 1920.

The Kiwanis Club of Frankfort, Indiana was chartered on September 3, 1920, becoming the 23rd Kiwanis Club in Indiana.

The Kiwanis Club is a global community of clubs, members and partners dedicated to improving the lives of children one community at a time and empowering members to pursue creative ways to serve the needs of children, such as fighting hunger, fighting literacy, and offering guidance.

The original motto of Kiwanis International, “We Build,” was exemplified by the Kiwanis Club of Frankfort in the creation of Circle Park in 1923, in the Club’s assistance in building Camp Cullom in the 1940s and 1950s, and in partnering with the City of Frankfort to construct the skateboard park at Eastside Park in 2005.

The Kiwanis Club of Frankfort encourages youth participation in service through the establishment of a Key Club at Frankfort High School in 1966, at Clinton Prairie High School in 1990.

Today, Tuesday, September 1, 2020, Frankfort Mayor Judy Sheets issued a proclamation celebrating the Kiwanis Club of Frankfort 100-years of service has contributed thousands of dollars to Riley Hospital for Children for various needs, including neonatal ambulances, initiatives to cure juvenile diabetes, and a program to increase early diagnoses of autism. The Kiwanis Club of Frankfort has contributed to international programs to eliminate iodine deficiency and neonatal tetanus worldwide.

Update (9/1/20): 2 New Clinton County Residents Have Tested Positive For COVID-19 As Reported By The ISDH

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The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Tuesday, September 1, 2020, Clinton County had 2 new positive tests, 553 residents have now tested positive for COVID-19. There are 9 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 7,159 residents of Clinton County have been tested as reported by the ISDH.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique individuals for Clinton County is 5.1% as of August 25, 2020. The State of Indiana as a whole is 7.1%.

Additionally, the ISDH announced that 721 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 94,891 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

A total of 3,077 Hoosiers have died to date. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.

To date, 1,083,765 tests have been reported to ISDH, up from 1,076,947 on Monday.

The Regenstrief Institute released updated hospitalization data as of August 31, 2020, 11:59 p.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative.

Total Hospitalizations: 42
Emergency Visits: 101
ICU Admits: 8
Hospital Deaths: 4

Statewide Recovery: 72,391 (79%)
Statewide Deceased: 3,093 (3%)
Statewide Active: 15,258 (18%)

Free COVID-19 Test Center in Clinton County
Children age 3 and older can be tested as well as anyone who needs a test can get tested.

Location [New Location as of Monday, August 31, 2020]:
Clinton County Fairgrounds in the Edward Jones Building
1701 S Jackson St.
Frankfort, IN
8am – 6pm (Monday – Friday)

To schedule a test, use one of the following:
web: https://lhi.care/covidtesting
phone: (888) 634-1116

The COVID-19 testing clinic has tested an additional 4,000+ Clinton County residents since May 13th.

COVID-19 Deaths Might Be Undercounted

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The number of deaths in the United States through July 2020 is 8% to 12% higher than it would have been if the coronavirus pandemic had never happened. That’s at least 164,937 deaths above the number expected for the first seven months of the year – 16,183 more than the number attributed to COVID-19 thus far for that period – and it could be as high as 204,691.

Tracking deaths

When someone dies, the death certificate records an immediate cause of death, along with up to three underlying conditions that “initiated the events resulting in death.” The certificate is filed with the local health department, and the details are reported to the National Center for Health Statistics.

As part of the National Vital Statistics System, the NCHS then uses this information in various ways, such as tabulating the leading causes of death in the United States – currently heart disease, followed by cancer. Sometime this fall, COVID-19 will likely become the third-largest cause of death for 2020.

Projecting from the past

To calculate excess deaths requires a comparison to what would have occurred if COVID-19 had not existed. Obviously, it’s not possible to observe what didn’t happen, but it is possible to estimate it using historical data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does this using a statistical model, based on the previous three years of mortality data, incorporating seasonal trends as well as adjustments for data-reporting delays.

So, looking at what happened over the past three years, the CDC projects what might have been. By using a statistical model, they are also able to calculate the uncertainty in their estimates. That allows statisticians like me to assess whether the observed data look unusual compared to projections.

The number of excess deaths is the difference between the model’s projections and the actual observations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also calculates an upper threshold for the estimated number of deaths – that helps determine when the observed number of deaths is unusually high compared to historical trends.

Clearly visible in a graph of this data is the spike in deaths beginning in mid-March 2020 and continuing to the present. You can also see another period of excess deaths from December 2017 to January 2018, attributable to an unusually virulent flu strain that year. The magnitude of the excess deaths in 2020 makes clear that COVID-19 is much worse than influenza, even when compared to a bad flu year like 2017-18, when an estimated 61,000 people in the U.S. died of the illness.

The large spike in deaths in April 2020 corresponds to the coronavirus outbreak in New York and the Northeast, after which the number of excess deaths decreased regularly and substantially until July, when it started to increase again. This current uptick in excess deaths is attributable to the outbreaks in the South and West that have occurred since June.

The data tell the story

It doesn’t take a sophisticated statistical model to see that the coronavirus pandemic is causing substantially more deaths than would have otherwise occurred.

The number of deaths the CDC officially attributed to COVID-19 in the United States exceeded 148,754 by Aug. 1. Some people who are skeptical about aspects of the coronavirus suggest these are deaths that would have occurred anyway, perhaps because COVID-19 is particularly deadly for the elderly. Others believe that, because the pandemic has changed life so drastically, the increase in COVID-19-related deaths is probably offset by decreases from other causes. But neither of these possibilities is true.

In fact, the number of excess deaths currently exceeds the number attributable to COVID-19 by more than 16,000 people in the U.S. What’s behind that discrepancy is not yet clear. COVID-19 deaths could be being undercounted, or the pandemic could also be causing increases in other types of death. It’s probably some of both.

Regardless of the reason, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in substantially more deaths than would have otherwise occurred … and it is not over yet.

Ronald D. Fricker Jr., Professor of Statistics and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Administration, Virginia Tech

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

Update (8/30/20): 9th Death Related to COVID-19 Reported By The ISDH of a Clinton County Resident

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The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) announced today, Sunday, August 30, 2020, Clinton County had 1 new death related to COVID-19 and 2 new positive tests, 545 residents have now tested positive for COVID-19. There are 9 deaths related to COVID-19 in Clinton County. At least 7,021 residents of Clinton County have been tested as reported by the ISDH.

The death is reported to have taken place Friday, August 28, 2020.

The rolling 7-day positivity rate of unique individuals for Clinton County is 6.0% as of August 23, 2020. The State of Indiana as a whole is 6.8%.

Additionally, the ISDH announced that 880 additional Hoosiers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 through testing at ISDH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and private laboratories. That brings to 93,313 the total number of Indiana residents known to have the novel coronavirus following corrections to the previous day’s total.

A total of 3,072 Hoosiers have died to date. Deaths are reported based on when data are received by ISDH and occurred over multiple days.

To date, 1,065,356 tests have been reported to ISDH, up from 1,055,793 on Saturday.

The Regenstrief Institute released updated hospitalization data as of August 29, 2020, 11:59 p.m. for Clinton County. Data are unique individuals and cumulative.

Total Hospitalizations: 39
Emergency Visits: 99
ICU Admits: 7
Hospital Deaths: 4

Statewide Recovery: 70,183 (79%)
Statewide Deceased: 3,066 (3%)
Statewide Active: 15,292 (17%)

Free COVID-19 Test Center in Clinton County
Children age 3 and older can be tested as well as anyone who needs a test can get tested.

Location [New Location as of Monday, August 31, 2020]:
Clinton County Fairgrounds in the Edward Jones Building
1701 S Jackson St.
Frankfort, IN
8am – 6pm (Monday – Friday)

To schedule a test, use one of the following:
web: https://lhi.care/covidtesting
phone: (888) 634-1116

The COVID-19 testing clinic has tested an additional 4,000+ Clinton County residents since May 13th.

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