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       Indiana Cases: 3/6/2020
       By: mixin Date: March 8, 2020, 5:44 pm
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       First case of coronavirus confirmed in Indiana
       Posted: 11:16 AM, Mar 06, 2020 Updated: 6:23 PM, Mar 06, 2020
       By: Matt McKinney , Nicole Griffin
       INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana health officials confirmed Friday a
       case of the coronavirus in Indianapolis.
       Gov. Eric Holcomb has declared a public health emergency in
       Indiana.
       The patient is an adult male who recently traveled to Boston for
       an event, Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box
       said. The man called ahead to the health department and entered
       Community North Hospital through a side door with health
       professionals.
       His contact with others was minimal to none, Community Health
       Network Physician Dr. Ram Yeleti said. The patient is now in
       self-isolation, and was only at the hospital from about 11:30
       p.m. Thursday to 2:30 a.m. Friday.
       Twelve people have been tested, and another 35 are being
       monitored for the virus, Box said.
       More here:
  HTML https://www.theindychannel.com/coronavirus/first-case-of-coronavirus-confirmed-in-indiana
       Snips from another article from Mar 6:
       Indiana health officials confirm first case of coronavirus
       Shari Rudavsky and Kellie Hwang, Indianapolis StarPublished
       11:17 a.m. ET March 6, 2020 | Updated 2:40 p.m. ET March 6, 2020
       "He is in stable condition, is self-isolated and does not
       require hospitalization. They said they have no indications so
       far that the man transmitted the disease to anyone else.
       How Indiana diagnosed the COVID-19 case
       The Indiana man attended a conference in Boston in recent days
       and flew home on Wednesday, health officials said. He had
       developed a sore throat, a low grade fever and a cough.
       ...
       He did not go to work on Thursday but received notice that
       others who attended that conference have fallen ill with
       COVID-19 and wondered whether he might have contracted the
       virus, as well.
       At that point, he contacted the state Health Department, who
       advised him to call ahead to a hospital and undergo testing. On
       Thursday night the man went to Community Health North.
       He was taken through a side entrance of Community Hospital
       North, placed into an isolation room with negative airflow and
       did not have any contact with other patients, said Dr. Ram
       Yeleti, chief physician executive with Community Health Network.
       All the caregivers who tended to him wore appropriate infection
       control.
       “No patients, no other caregivers were exposed to this
       individual,” Yeleti said
       ...
       On Thursday, Indiana State Department of Health officials said
       that six residents who had been aboard the cruise ship the Grand
       Princess would be under a 14-day home quarantine. At least two
       travelers on that boat developed COVID-19 infections, one of
       them deadly.
  HTML https://www.indystar.com/story/news/health/2020/03/06/coronavirus-indiana-cases/4973737002/
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