The good news continues to flow from the Fishers Health Department (FHD).  In his latest video update, Epidemiologist Josh Robinson says, “We continue to see quite a precipitous drop in the number of COVID-19 cases.”

The numbers tell the tale. The most current 7-day reporting period shows a total of 210 Fishers reported COVID cases, compared to a peak of just under 2,000 recorded at the height of the Omicron wave in mid-January.  Overall cases are down 90% since the peak of the Omicron wave last month.  Fishers is now seeing the lowest number of weekly reported cases since the beginning of November, 2021.

Here are more numbers.

–The Hamilton County unique individual testing positivity rate continues a downward trend, from 28.6% to 24.9% as of early Tuesday.

–The Fishers Testing Site positivity rate has gone from 21.3% down to 19.9%

–The 14-day case incidence rate has dropped from from 82.1 to 42.7.

–Hospital availability has continued to increase and FHD anticipates that trend to continue.

Now that the COVID cases have seen a dramatic downward trend the past few weeks, Robinson says the video updates will go from weekly to every-other-week.  The next video update will come in early March.

Below is the February Fishers COVID-19 update from Josh Robinson.