Fountain County is Once Again a COVID-19 Hotspot

Fountain county is once again a COVID-19 hotspot in the state of Indiana.

Health Officer Dr. Sean Sharma shares what he thinks is contributing to the problem.

In the state of indiana.

I talked with the local health officer dr. sean sharma about what he think is contributing to their on going struggle against the pandemic.

Fountain county is continuing it's struggle against the spread of covid-19.

"when fountain county was red a couple of weeks ago, at that time is was easier for us to target what populations in the community where the source of the spread."-sharma but this time around that isn't the case.

However sharma belives the two instances are related.

"my suspicion based on the contact tracing that we have done..

Is that many of those cases have then lead to a large increase in community spread."- sharma however..

When sate health commissioner dr. kristina box was asked about it, she had a different idea as what may be the problem.

"there is a significant resistance to social distancing and wearing masks and kind of this concept and belief system that the pandemic was going to get better once the election was over.

"-dr. box while sharma says he has seen those attitus taken towards the pandemic he feels there is more at play.

"warren county and fountain county are also boarder counties with the state of illinois so we have to consider cross state traffic."-dr. sharma.

Dr. box says everyone has to buy in to pandemic protocol for it to work.

"it takes a buy in from everybody in the community work together whether that's the hospital system..

The elected officials and the public health r.

Box and dr. sharma says there needs to be actual restrictions in place from leaders on all levels of government.

"we need support from other elected leaders on a national leve..

On a state level on a local level and most importantly we need the publics support."-dr. sharma.

Fayette and dubois counties re also red on the color coded map making them both hot spots in the state as well.

Indiana is now reporting 3,756 new covid-19 cases.

That's according