Tippecanoe County leaders concerned about up-tick in COVID-19 cases

Cases in Tippecanoe County were on the decline until about a week ago.

Almost half of the cases from the past month were reported in the last seven days.

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Cases in tippecanoe county had been going down in the weeks after the county's biggest spike in may.

But almost half of the cases in the past month were reported in the last seven days.

Dr. jeremy adler says about 22- percent of the county's cases are in the latin-x community.

Indiana was set to move onto the fifth and final stage of the reopen indiana plan on saturday.

That plan will now be modified to a "4.5 stage."

Representatives from both franciscan health and iu health arnett say they are concerned about the rise in numbers.

"i think when that plan was established there was perhaps optimism that we wouldn't have this background level of disease persisting and so here we are and we do.

Absolutely the recommendations that dr.adler has made about mask wearing and hand sanitizing need to be double downed on."

Dr. jeremy adler says it is unclear at this point how many cases have been brought back to tippecanoe county by people going out of state for vacations.

He said they will monitor data to see if mandatory mask wearing needs to be implemented in the county.

Lafayette mayor tony roswarksi says it's something to be heavily considered.

He says we can't go backwards in getting local businesses and factories back up and running.

"if that means that we have to go to a mandatory mask policy to ensure that that doesn't happen then that's something that is definitely on the table because that is a small price to pay for having economic shutdown re-occur in the community" the weekly press conference with the health department will be moving to a bi- weekly meeting starting next week.

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