Third of Hoosiers 16 and older fully vaccinated for COVID-19

<p>INDIANAPOLIS &mdash; Nearly one-third of Indiana residents ages 16 and older have now been fully vaccinated for COVID-19, state health officials said Monday.</p>
<p>The Indiana Department of Health said that about 1.74 million Hoosiers — or 32% of Indiana’s roughly 5.3 million residents ages 16 and older — have been fully vaccinated, while 2.29 million first doses of vaccine have been administered statewide.</p>
<p>People fully vaccinated have received a second dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or the single dose Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine. The pace of the state’s vaccination efforts can be tracked on Indiana’s <a href="https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/vaccine/2680.htm">COVID-19 vaccine dashboard</a>.</p>
<p>Indiana officials <a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-indiana-coronavirus-pandemic-coronavirus-vaccine-83dfea92186ce3be2b547b65bfe2a927">made all state residents age 16 and older eligible for COVID-19 vaccines</a> on March 31.</p>
<p>The state health department also reported 702 newly confirmed coronavirus cases Monday and five more Indiana deaths from COVID-19. Those deaths raised Indiana’s pandemic toll to 13,280 confirmed or presumed coronavirus-related deaths.</p>
<p>Indiana’s COVID-19 hospitalizations are continuing to see general slow increases after reaching recent lows below 600 for several days in mid-March, according to the <a href="https://www.coronavirus.in.gov/">state’s coronavirus dashboard</a>.</p>
<p>As of Sunday, 893 Hoosiers were hospitalized with COVID-19. That’s down slightly from the 909 hospitalizations reported on April 11, but represents an increase over roughly the past two weeks.</p>