INDIANAPOLIS — Here are Sunday'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.
Fauci: 99% of US virus deaths are unvaccinated people
America’s top infectious disease expert said about 99.2% of recent COVID-19 deaths in the United States involved unvaccinated people. Dr. Anthony Fauci said "it's really sad and tragic that most all of these are avoidable and preventable."
He told NBC's "Meet the Press" it's frustrating “where you have a formidable enemy" in the coronavirus and "yet we do have a countermeasure that's highly, highly effective. And that’s the reason why it's all the more sad and all the more tragic why it isn’t being completely implemented in this country."
Fauci cited the reasons for opposition to the vaccine by some Americans, saying whether it's "ideological" or whether some "are just fundamentally anti-vax or anti-science."
He said the country does "have the tools to counter" the pandemic and he asks people to "put aside all of those differences and realize that the common enemy is the virus."
Latest US, world numbers
There have been more than 33.7 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States as of 5:30 a.m. ET Sunday, according to Johns Hopkins University. There have been more than 605,000 deaths in the U.S.
Worldwide, there have been more than 183.4 million confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 3.97 million deaths. Nearly 3.2 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide.
