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2020–2021 · the county department's own record
The banked fragment stops the pandemic in February 2021; the county's own summaries carry it forward week by week. The orders came first. St. Joseph County Public Health Orders 1-2020 and 2-2020 imposed the county's face-covering requirement in early May 2020 — masks in enclosed public spaces and businesses where six feet of distance could not be kept, with exceptions including children under two and medical conditions, and hand sanitiser required at business entrances — and Health Officer Dr. Robert Einterz extended the requirement through 7 September 2020, the county stating throughout that it had no interest in punishing offenders. By August 2021 the posture had changed with the law: after the state required county legislative approval for any local order stricter than the state's, the county issued no new mandate, recommendation only — including its call for masking in K-12 schools.
The vaccination campaign prints in the department's own running columns, the same summary series the banked February 2021 figure (29,499 cases, 512 deaths, 18 February 2021) came from: 25 February 2021 — 30,045 cases, 515 deaths, 38,450 first doses, 18,823 fully vaccinated; 11 March — 31,003 cases, 522 deaths, 50,865 first doses, 29,218 fully; 25 March — 32,093 cases, 528 deaths, 66,203 first doses, 40,377 fully; 1 April 2021 — 32,807 cases, 534 deaths, 72,775 first doses, 53,337 fully vaccinated. The county's campaign is therefore documented in its own record from its first weeks, at county strength; no township vaccination figure exists in that record or any other reached.
HIV, never addressed in the banked build, is addressed here at the strength the official record carries it. The Indiana Department of Health's annual Spotlight on HIV/STD/Viral Hepatitis reports carry the county whole for the sexually transmitted diseases — as of 31 December 2017, St. Joseph County: chlamydia 1,691 cases (rate 630.7), gonorrhea 718 (rate 267.8) — and carry HIV by county of residence in the same series' maps and tables. No HIV count for the county was extracted, and no HIV figure for Union Township or Lakeville exists in any official carrier: the settlers stand named and current — the Spotlight series, CDC AtlasPlus, and AIDSVu, all of which publish county-level HIV prevalence and new-diagnosis data.
Principal sources: St. Joseph County Department of Health, public health orders 1-2020 and 2-2020 and weekly COVID summaries (in.gov/localhealth/stjosephcounty, first-hand); Indiana Department of Health, Spotlight on HIV/STD/Viral Hepatitis (in.gov, first-hand at table strength).