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Indiana coronavirus updates for Monday, Nov. 1, 2021

The latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic from Monday, Nov. 1, 2021.

INDIANAPOLIS — Here are Monday's latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic, including the latest news on COVID-19 vaccinations and testing in Indiana.

Registrations for the vaccine are now open for Hoosiers 12 and older through the Indiana State Department of Health. This story will be updated over the course of the day with more news on the COVID-19 pandemic.

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State records almost 4K new cases, 50 more deaths

The Indiana State Department of Health reported Monday that 1,054 more Hoosiers tested positive for COVID-19 in the daily reports for Halloween, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 1,022,609 through midnight. That number represents 3,971 additional cases since Friday’s published numbers.

The state also reported 2 additional deaths from COVID-19 that occurred between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24. Indiana has lost 16,184 residents since the pandemic began, which includes 50 newly reported deaths reported since Friday’s last published update.

Global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years

The world's COVID-19 death toll topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into the pandemic.

The United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil account for one-eighth of the world’s population but nearly half of all reported deaths. The U.S. alone has recorded over 740,000 lives lost, more than any other nation.

The death toll, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, equals the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. It rivals the number of people killed in battles among nations since 1950, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo. 

Globally, COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke.

Latest US, world numbers

There have been more than 45.97 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States as of 5 a.m. Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University. There have been more than 745,830 deaths recorded in the U.S.

Worldwide, there have been more than 246.74 million confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 5 million deaths and more than 6.94 billion vaccine doses administered worldwide.

For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness like pneumonia, or death.

Jen Psaki tests positive

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday she has contracted COVID-19.

Psaki was not traveling with President Joe Biden, who was in Rome this weekend for the Group of 20 summit and is headed to Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday for a U.N. climate summit.

Psaki had planned to travel with the president but scrapped the trip just as he was set to depart for Europe after learning that members of her household had tested positive for COVID-19.

She added that she was last in contact with Biden on Tuesday, and the two sat more than 6 feet apart and wore masks.

Psaki said she is only exhibiting mild symptoms.

FDA delays decision on Moderna COVID shot for children under 18

It may be a few months yet until children will be eligible to receive Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine. According to a press release from the company Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will need more time before it rules on an Emergency Use Authorization for administering the shot to children ages 12 to 17.  

According to Moderna, the FDA says it's using that extra time to further analyze results from studies on the risks of myocarditis after vaccination. Myocarditis is a type of heart inflammation. The FDA says its analysis may push its decision on whether to authorize an Emergency Use Authorization back to January 2022.

Concerns about this potential link arose in the spring and summer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, hundreds of instances of heart inflammation have been reported after a person had received an mRNA vaccine (Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech's being the two FDA-approved mRNA vaccines). That risk was found to be higher in young men and adolescents. Despite this, both the CDC and the World Health Organization say that these cases are both rare and mild.

Because of this delay, Moderna says it will hold off submitting its request for an EUA for its vaccine in children 6-11.

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