‘We still have darkness’: the town where an HIV outbreak occurred under Mike Pence
Austin, Indiana, was the site of a 2015 outbreak that infected more than 200 people – and critics of Pence’s coronavirus role say he botched the response
Dozens of residents filtered past a syringe disposal box in a parking lot as they headed to the free weekly meal at the Church of the New Covenant in the town of Austin, Indiana.
“We still have darkness around us, we still have addiction, it’s going to take Jesus’s return to stop all of it,” said Pastor Jacob Howell, who stopped using heroin a few years ago and devoted his life to God.