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1981–2023 · OFFICIAL RECORD ONLY · COUNTY GRAIN, PRINTED AS SUCH
HIV — the official record, and nothing else: Indiana's HIV record is the Indiana Department of Health's Spotlight on HIV/STI/Viral Hepatitis surveillance series, which counts by last known county of residence and suppresses every cell under five. Its county prevalence tables give St. Joseph County's persons living with HIV disease in full: 474 people as of 31 December 2010 (333 male, 141 female); 483 as of 31 December 2011; 507 as of 30 June 2012. The series runs annually to the present structure — the 2024 surveillance report (issued June 2025) prints the state's whole: 8,224 Hoosiers living with HIV (no AIDS stage) and 6,717 living with AIDS, 556 new HIV reports and 108 new AIDS reports in the year — but its county map figures could not be extracted reliably from the published file in this run, and no garbled county figure is printed in place of a read one; the dated 2010–2012 county series above is the official record at full extracted strength, and the current county figure's settler is the current Spotlight county prevalence table read directly. The town test: IDOH publishes HIV data by county and, for some programs, by ZIP — never by town, township or census place. No HIV or AIDS figure for Osceola or Penn Township exists in the official record, and none was ever published to be found. The absence is printed as what it is: TESTED — the official record counts this epidemic by county only; a town count does not exist, which closes the HIV half at official-record strength without inventing a local number or a local story. No person is named; no anecdote is printed; per the row's discipline there is nothing else to print.
COVID-19 — the county's course and toll, each figure dated and by its instrument: the St. Joseph County Department of Health's own data summaries date the winter crest: 25–26 December 2020, 23,775 confirmed cases countywide and 360 deaths; 18 February 2021, 29,499 cases and 512 deaths; 11 March 2021, 31,003 cases and 522 deaths; 25 March 2021, 32,093 cases and 528 deaths. The pandemic whole for the county, in the state-and-federal-sourced aggregate (USAFacts, from state reporting, final update July 2023), stands at 70,600 reported cases and 863 reported deaths; Indiana's final county dataset was archived 15 November 2023. The figures print dated and by instrument because they are different instruments' counts and do not reconcile into one line. Its public-health orders: Health Officer Robert M. Einterz's county orders ran inside the state's staged reopening — Public Health Order 1-2020, issued 3 May 2020 and effective 4 May to 4 July 2020 (masks, sanitizer, reopening conditions); Order 2-2020, issued 29 June 2020, effective 4 July to 7 September; Order 3-2020, issued 4 September 2020, effective 8 September to 31 December 2020 — the county's own instruments, signed by the officer the preceding article seats, and the closest thing to a local order this town ever stood under: no Osceola or Penn Township order existed or could exist, and none is claimed. Its vaccination campaign, from the department's own tables: on 11 March 2021 the summaries count 50,865 county residents with a first dose and 29,218 fully vaccinated; by 25 March, 40,377 fully vaccinated — the campaign's first season in the county's own count. The place count: Health & Care's ruling stands and is confirmed by this run's reading of the same record — Indiana published COVID by county and by ZIP; ZIP 46561 is not the town; no Osceola or Penn Township series was ever published, and the town's pandemic is therefore carried, honestly and only, inside the county figures above.
Sources:
- Indiana Department of Health, Spotlight on HIV/STD/Viral Hepatitis, Semi-Annual Reports: Dec. 2010 (St. Joseph Co. 474 persons living with HIV disease), Dec. 2011 (483), June 2012 (507) — prevalence by last known county of residence, cells under five suppressed; Spotlight 2024 surveillance report (June 2025) — Indiana 8,224 living with HIV, 6,717 living with AIDS, 556 new HIV and 108 new AIDS reports. OFFICIAL RECORD ONLY, per the row.
- St. Joseph County Department of Health, COVID-19 data summaries of 25/26 Dec. 2020, 18 Feb. 2021, 11 Mar. 2021 and 25 Mar. 2021 (in.gov) — cases, deaths, first doses and fully-vaccinated counts, each as dated in the text; Public Health Orders 1-2020 (3 May 2020), 2-2020 (29 June 2020), 3-2020 (4 Sept. 2020), signed by Health Officer Robert M. Einterz.
- USAFacts, St. Joseph County COVID-19 aggregate (state-reported data, final July 2023) — 70,600 cases, 863 deaths, printed as that instrument's whole; Indiana's final county COVID dataset archived 15 Nov. 2023.
- Health & Care — the county-grain ruling for COVID and the township frame, confirmed and extended, not re-told.