Kentucky
COVID numbers mostly mixed in Kentucky – Winchester Sun
COVID numbers principally combined in Kentucky
Printed 12:00 pm Thursday, September 8, 2022
The Kentucky Division for Public Well being’s weekly COVID-19 report, which had its launch delayed till Tuesday due to the Labor Day vacation, exhibits declines in a number of classes, and small will increase in others.
There have been 12,830 new circumstances of COVID reported to public well being officers in the course of the seven-day interval that ended on Sunday, September 4, which is a lower of 1,482 circumstances from the 14.312 within the August 28 report.
Thirty-five of Kentucky’s 120 counties had greater than 100 circumstances every, down from 46 per week in the past. For the reason that first case of COVID was reported on March 6, 2020, there have now been 1,549,274 circumstances within the state.
The ten counties with the best variety of new circumstances final week have been: Jefferson with 1,637, Fayette 773, Hardin 361, Warren 353, Laurel 309, Kenton and Madison 294 every, Rowan 275, Pike 229, and Boone 226.
Kentucky’s positivity charge, which measures the variety of vases from all checks carried out, besides these with residence kits, noticed a reasonably important drop to 18.40% over the previous seven-day interval, from the earlier week’s 20.04%. This breaks the two-month lengthy development of weekly will increase skilled over the previous two months, together with the 17.89% recorded on August 1, and the 15.75% in early July.
The variety of COVID-related deaths within the state for the week ending Sunday was 78. That was two greater than the 76 recorded throughout final week, and 15 greater than two weeks in the past, when there have been 63. The pandemic whole has now reached 16,757.
Kentucky’s COVID hospital census additionally noticed a rise from final week, on this newest report. There are actually 629 folks hospitalized, a rise of 8 sufferers. Of them, 102 are within the ICU, down two from per week in the past, and 36 are on a ventilator, eight greater than within the earlier report.
The Group Ranges map breaks down the COVID degree by county, with inexperienced for low, yellow for medium and purple for top ranges, which the CDC says is designed to assist people and communities resolve which prevention actions to take based mostly on hospitalizations and circumstances.
The most recent map, launched on September 2, had 8 inexperienced counties, 42 yellow and 70 within the purple. The August 26 map had 10 inexperienced, 36 yellow and 74 purple. Going again to July 29, there have been 80 purple counties, and 40 have been yellow with no inexperienced counties.