Fort Wayne health officials say public still needs to practice CDC guidelines for COVID-19

As Indiana has reopened and Memorial Day has kicked off the summer, the number of COVID-19 cases has risen, to some degree, and all three major hospital systems in Northeast Indiana.

Petroviak.thanks for joining us.we continue to hear about covid-19 every day and some have become desensitized because of it.but health officials are warning we still need to take precautions to help prevent the spread the dise caleb saylor has more on what they had to say.

All three hospital systems in the area are warning that covid-19 gone away.

They say since memorial day, the number of cases each day has climbed, this is especially true for parkview health says chief medical officer jason row.

Ver the past three weeks or so, we e actually seen dou the number of patients hospitalized for covid-19 everyday.

In fact, those numbers are much higher than they were in the early days of the pandemic in march and april.

Want people to still continue steps to help limit the spread of the disease, especially wearing a mask.

Doctors have noticed that fewer people are wearing masks while out in public than before.

Regional chief medical officer vishal bahtia with lutheran says that a rhe y move.

Younger people who are out and about in the community who don wear the masks, they c contract the disease, they can bring it home to their loved ones, and if they take appropriate measures, you prevent the spread in the community.

Wayne chief medical officer geoff randolph believes wearing a mask is the number one tool to help limit the spread of the virus, t gives our scientists in opportunity to develop medications and decide what medications are effective it gives our scientists a chance to develop and test and make sure that vaccines are appropriate and that they are actually useful to us when they are brought out.

Three believe the months ahead are critical to keep cases from spiking and filling up the intensive care units ... as has happened in other parts of the country.

Think in the foreseeable future, covid- 19 is here to stay.

So, as we go forward, all of our plans are based on not having a covid-free future, but a covid- safe present.

Caleb saylor, fox 55 news ?all hospital systems say they do not believe the protests are the cause of case numbers increasing, but more so the reopening of the state since memorial