The Indiana State Department of Health and IUPUI will begin the third phase of its COVID-19 tracking study on Sept. 29. This round of the study is set to include children as participants for the first time.

If the vaccine is distributed to each state based on its share of the U.S. population, Indiana might receive only 300,000 doses initially for its 6.7 million residents.

Indiana has a new school COVID-19 case dashboard in the works, and the public will be able to see the number of cases reported in schools across the state.

The new COVID-19 testing sites are going up around the state, and will be run by local health departments. The state will provide funding to help those sites stay operational for the next two years.

After new coronavirus cases were found last week at the Miami Correctional Facility, a team from the Indiana State Department of Health visited the prison over the weekend to do rapid testing

As of Aug. 6, mosquitoes in Allen, Marion and St. Joseph counties have tested positive for West Nile virus.

After months of keeping facility-level long term care data from the public, Indiana will begin to release it later this month.

Many worry about how to pay for some of the changes, and whether or not all of them will be needed or possible in different parts of the state.

State Health Commissioner Kris Box says information gathered by the state contact tracing call center remains private.

Indianas expanded coronavirus testing program is set to start Wednesday at 20 sites around the state, although those tests still wont be available to everybody.