A group of about 20 protesters rallied outside the Statehouse Tuesday against Gov. Eric Holcomb's public health emergency orders.

Indiana received low marks for not being accredited, and for having low flu vaccination rates.

The declaration gives the administration access to the Public Health Emergency Fund, but that fund is nearly empty.

Tippecanoe County has become Indiana's ninth with a declared public health emergency - an intermediate step in establishing a needle exchange in the county.

Monroe County is the latest in Indiana to have been declared a public health emergency. State Health Commissioner Jerome Adams made the declaration today in response to an outbreak of hepatitis C.