The Indiana Department of Health will expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to 12- to 15-year-olds starting Thursday, pending recommendation from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Reaching adulthood brings new challenges new jobs, school, relationships and that can affect a young person's mental health. But navigating the health care system to get help with that is often not easy.

Global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly is planning for employees working from home to return to their Indianapolis offices this summer. Officials say this is another step towards businesses returning to what operations were before the pandemic.

Nearly 110 million Americans have been vaccinated against COVID-19. And delivering each dose requires a complex chain of events. This is the story of one of those doses -- and how it ended up in Archie Thomas's left arm at a church recreation center in Evansville, Indiana.

The Indiana Department of Health reported 66 additional confirmed deaths over the last week. That brings the states total to 13,003 confirmed deaths. The state also reported more than 7,000 new cases in the last week.

Indiana surpassed 13,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths Sunday. The state's rate of newly reported deaths has continued its exponential slowdown since the state began vaccine distribution.

Around the nation, demand for the vaccine overall is decreasing. But many Native American tribal communities are ahead of the rest of the country when it comes to getting COVID-19 vaccines. And, one place in Iowa is getting close to herd immunity.

The demand for COVID-19 vaccines in Indiana is slowing down, even as the state hits 2 million fully vaccinated Hoosiers.

Syringe service programs, also called needle exchanges, provide intravenous drug users with clean needles and a place to dispose of used ones.

Health officials said last week they are working with the Indiana Rural Health Association to help improve vaccination rates.