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Dubois County adds two more COVID-19 cases

ByFree Press Staff Reading Time: 1 minute

As of April 18, at 8 a.m., Dubois County Health Department confirmed two more positive cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) among Dubois County residents. This brings the total of 16 positive cases of COVID-19 in Dubois County residents.  

We are working closely with Indiana State Department of Health and local officials to ensure that contacts of the patients are identified and monitored, the health department stated in a press release. Anyone who may have an exposure risk, have been or is being notified about potential exposures so that appropriate infection control procedures can be followed.  

To remain in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), as well as, state and local regulations the Dubois County Health Department will not release information on individual patients.

We appreciate the community’s willingness to respect individual’s privacy, they stated.

Developments are changing day by day, minute by minute.  Our focus remains on the health and well-being of Dubois County. Our mission has never been more meaningful to our community.  STAY HOME. PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND GOOD HAND HYGEINE. #InThisTogether

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9 Comments

  1. Are you sure it is now 16 cases? Both the Health Department and the Jasper Herald say 14 cases. The story reads like the 2 from the Health Dept. were from the previous cases.

    2. The dashboard on Memorial Hospital’s website is updated Mondays through Fridays. It may not show the newest cases.

    3. WFIE had an article on Google about the two new cases in Dubois county bringing the total to 16.
      The article also stated the numbers were from the Indiana Coronavirus map.
      Mr. Crane’s facts are correct.

  2. Here we go again. Are these “two DC residents” reported as added to those testing positive the same as those reported by the health dept as “staff members” testing positive? Why can’t these entities to include the hospital PLUS the reporting media ask/inquire to anticipate and pro-actively better coordinate/clarify for public disclosure/dissemination? No? OK, what was the number (how many) of health dept staff tested positive as reported? How many (in “some”) MHHCC workers tested positive as reported a couple of weeks ago? Others similar can/do report numbers – it’s not prohibited/protected by HIPAA laws – so why don’t these certain public/safety entities disclose their own specific numbers? Or are they self-selective – as “essential(ly)” above or exempt, etc?

    1. What difference does it make? I thought you said all of the Covid-19 reporting was just “fear mongering”?

      It’s only 16 cases, after all (that we know of). No need to panic. Let’s all get back to work.

  3. I would like more information. For instance, are these cases all in the hospital, have any of them gotten better, are some of them in quarantine at home. There are a lot of unanswered questions. Questions that would not be a privacy issue. Another thing are they allowed to request the medicines that have proven to help those affected by vivid-19. There are doctors that have uses those drugs with good results. They aren’t new drugs, they shouldn’t need to go through months of testing. People need help not more government officials who don’t know what they are talking about.

    1. You sound like trump. Those drugs are not proven to help with covid-19. But like trump says, “what do you have to lose?” other than ones LIFE not much.

      1. Get off of your ‘Trump” crap. Grow up, get yourself a job (I don’t mean taking your dishes up to the sink) and move out of grandma’s basement Jeffy boy. Geez, talk about TDS…

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